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Is Your Esg Mutual Fund or ETF Really “Green” – More Disclosure May Be Coming

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: What is it about an investable product – a mutual fund, an exchange traded fund (ETF) –that would qualify it as an “ESG,” “green” or “sustainableinvestment offering to retail or institutional investors? SOURCE: Governance & Accountability Institute, Inc. That’s a question getting much more attention recently.

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Location Data “Crucial” to Identifying Nature Risks

Chris Hall

Shortcuts for nature Also speaking at the event, Maria Nazarova-Doyle, Head of Sustainable Investment at IFM Investors, said that policymakers’ and investors’ experience on climate can offer “shortcuts” to better nature integration.

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Nasdaq 2022 Sustainability Report: Supporting the Corporate Community

3BL Media

Metrio also has built-in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting capabilities that allows businesses to leverage their granular data and aggregate into both internal and external reports. Catastrophe models that contain climate conditioned events will play a valuable role in this regard.

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TNFD Vital to “Operationalise” GBF’s Target 15

Chris Hall

It is now squarely a central and strategic risk management issue.” From voluntary to mandatory The recommendations were launched at an event at the New York Stock Exchange as part of New York Climate Week. The TNFD will now encourage and support voluntary market adoption of the recommendations.

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What Is Sustainable Finance?

B the Change

To achieve the goals of sustainable finance, all actors?—?companies, From a company’s perspective, sustainable finance refers to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). CSR refers to the set of corporate activities that improve human or environmental well-being. companies, investors, and policymakers?—?need

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ESG Explainer: Modern Slavery in the Supply Chain

Chris Hall

For US companies , the concept of corporate social responsibility, rather than statutory law, is the primary vehicle for extending human rights obligations throughout supply chains and communities. How have corporates responded to policy initiatives?

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Republican State Officials vs. Wall Street Managers on ESG Investing

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: The showdown continues: on one side we now see attorney generals in 19 states putting pressure on asset management firms that embrace “sustainable investment” or “ESG” policies that influence the various states’ public employee pension systems. Accounting for these and other losses isn’t social policy. and globally.