Corporate Knights

JULY 4, 2022

Net-zero pledges have become commonplace among corporations, financial institutions and cities, but questions abound as to whether those companies and governments have real plans in place to achieve them.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 30, 2022

Shareholder pressure to improve a company’s social impact is supported by many academic studies that have found a positive correlation between strong Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) scores and Corporate Financial Performance (CFP).

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

They recognized that without reliable climate-related financial information, assets could be mispriced and capital could be misallocated, meaning the global economy potentially could face a tumultuous transition to a low-carbon future. So, the TCFD was born.

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3BL Media

MARCH 20, 2024

Leveraging stakeholder engagement: SBTN and TNFD can collaborate in stakeholder engagement activities, given their overlapping target audiences, which include corporates, financial institutions, and policy-makers. TNFD can employ science-based metrics established by SBTN in its disclosure guidelines.

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Chris Hall

MAY 18, 2022

Standards developed by corporates, financial institutions, asset managers and energy producers intended to augment mandatory reporting requirements. New ESG disclosure guidelines developed by a Beijing-based industry body for Chinese enterprises are due for implementation next month.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Speaking at the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) Sustainability Symposium, ISSB Chair Emmanuel Faber and UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance Mark Carney highlighted the lack of attention on strategic resilience by large corporates, financial institutions and policymakers. “We have built our business models very (..)

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

ESG has proven to be a valuable tool for both sustainability efforts and corporate financial performance. Ethical supply chain management. Reasonable incentives programs for C-Suite and shareholders. Make a Real Commitment to ESG. For ESG to be successful, organizations need to commit to combating real problems.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The general prototype disclosure standard issued by the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) should require corporates to provide more details on their materiality assessments, according to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).

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Sustainability Matters

AUGUST 15, 2023

This concept has recently graduated from being a reputational risk to a regulatory issue across Australia’s corporate, financial and consumer ecosystems. Avoiding the risk of greenwashing “In Australia, taking early action is becoming more urgent due to the current risks of greenwashing.

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3BL Media

JUNE 14, 2022

The primary audience for these standards and frameworks has been shifting from a broad stakeholder group to the financial community as lenders, agencies, and investors are looking for more visibility into nonfinancial metrics to understand the ESG risks of companies. How to Choose an ESG Standard or Framework?

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Over the last five years, CA100+ engaged focus companies on themes such as aligning their climate lobbying with the Paris Agreement and accounting for climate risks in corporate financial statements.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2022

“By building on the TCFD’s framework, the ISSB’s climate proposals will create further consistency, comparability and reliability across climate disclosure so investors can make more informed financial decisions,” said Mary Schapiro, Head of the TCFD Secretariat. .

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 18, 2024

The TNFD currently comprises two co-chairs, a secretariat of 26 full-time employees, and 40 taskforce members (plus an additional 46 alternates), with taskforce members drawn from corporations, financial institutions, professional service firms, and vendor providers.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The final version was set up to address the information gap between various firms’ interactions with biodiversity in nature and the impacts on financial performance and longer-term financial risks. It is not expected that the rules should apply to overseas firms accessing the UK by way of the temporary permissions regime.

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 1, 2021

A recent survey of 250 senior corporate executives, in a report called Zeronomics , casts doubt. About two-third of senior corporate executives categorically deny an alignment between net-zero commitments and corporate financial interests. [1]

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This positions MENA as a microcosm of the broader world, mirroring global disparities in both wealth and development, according to Luma Saqqaf, CEO of Ajyal Sustainability Consulting, drawing on three decades at the forefront of finance, Islamic finance, sustainability and entrepreneurship in MENA and Europe to advise corporates, financial institutions, (..)

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We Mean Business Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Recent research (scientific-peer-reviewed, unlike many of those recent reports attacking corporate climate action) by the University of Münster definitively established the positive link between corporate carbon emissions performance and corporate financial performance.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 10, 2022

In the report, Professor Galeotti discusses how financial and environmental performance are associated with three major EU provisions: corporate financial reporting, disclosure, and the EU taxonomy.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 14, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission, because it would provide transparency into how both public and private companies are managing material climate-related financial risks and opportunities.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 24, 2022

Both standards will require companies to disclose how they are both directly and indirectly responding to risks and opportunities, how their subsequent strategy will be resourced, and what consequent changes they expect to financial position and performance over time. .

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In 2006, the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) issued a report that suggested environmental, social, and governance data be a mandatory part of corporate financial evaluations. The individuals behind the PRI report represented a multinational group of investment experts.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 27, 2023

“Today is a landmark day for the global economy and the financial sector as we celebrate the launch of the IFRS sustainability disclosure standards, S1 and S2,” said Julia Hoggett, CEO at London Stock Exchange.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Guterres established the expert panel to recommend ways of ensuring that climate pledges made by “non-state actors” (corporations, financial institutions and local and regional governments) are implemented. .

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Jon Hale

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The anti-ESG campaign makes little sense to the many end investors, asset managers, and corporate leaders who see the consideration of environmental, social, and corporate governance information as important to both investor and corporate financial success.

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Steven Mintz

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The majority of corporate fraud cases pursued by the FBI involve accounting schemes designed to deceive investors, auditors, and analysts about the true financial condition of a corporation or business entity.

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