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MAS to Issue New Anti-Greenwashing Rules for ESG Funds

Chris Hall

Greenwashing poses a “real and present danger” to industry efforts to advance sustainability considerations in their investment processes. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is planning to impose new supervisory expectations on ESG funds to help mitigate the risk of greenwashing.

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How Tracking GHG Emissions Accelerates Value and Strengthens Companies

3BL Media

SUMMARY: James Mandel, Blackstone’s Chief Sustainability Officer, and Jake Shirmer, a Principal in Portfolio Operations, explain why tracking greenhouse gas emissions is neither greenwashing nor a compliance checkbox. Rightly understood, then, tracking GHG emissions is neither greenwashing nor a compliance checkbox. link] $BX #GHG.

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Pension Plans Increase Focus on ESG Investing for a Sustainable Future

3BL Media

4 While these credits are intended to help companies meet their climate goals, it is imperative to ensure the quality and transparency of them in order to achieve genuine emission reductions and to avoid greenwashing. In addition to these new requirements, the Taxonomy Roadmap Report was developed by the Sustainable Finance Action Council.

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Impact Platform Eyes an AI Future

Chris Hall

Net Purpose expands capabilities, views AI as essential to handle proliferation of sustainability data. Net Purpose, a data analytics platform for impact investors, is expanding its team and capabilities, while looking at new technologies to help align investments to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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ESG Explainer: Regulating Ratings

Chris Hall

There are more than 600 ESG standards and frameworks, data providers, ratings and rankings, provided by a mix of established credit ratings agencies and data vendors along with niche providers. In developing ESG scores, ratings providers have to search publicly available ESG information provided by corporates.

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AI Tools Can Tackle Opaque ESG Data

Chris Hall

“AI can process and analyse vast amounts of this unstructured data from different sources,” Ilan Furman, CIO at AI-based technological research company Bridgewise, told ESG Investor. “It Last May , Net Purpose – a data analytics platform for impact investors – used part of its US$11 million Series-A funding round to enhance its use of AI.

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Guest Post: When Investment-Grade ESG Data is not Enough

ESG Today

Although it contributes significantly to sustainable development programs, it does not replace them and may sometimes work against them. ESG ratings are questioned, accusations of greenwashing are proliferating, and debate about the purpose and integrity of ESG investing is ongoing. Whoever Cares – Wins.