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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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How Fortune 500 Companies Set and Measure Sustainability Goals

Strategic Sustainability Consulting

Without a realistic, actionable plan in place, companies are either ignoring climate impacts or simply greenwashing. Measuring Sustainability Goals Through Data Analytics To measure the effectiveness of implementing sustainability goals, companies are turning to data analytics.

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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.

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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. The risks of capital misallocation, product mis-selling and greenwashing are high in the absence of “appropriate legal tools”, says ESMA.

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AI Tools Can Tackle Opaque ESG Data

Chris Hall

Similar to Bridgewise’s toolkit, Manifest Climate’s recently launch risk-planning solution software uses AI to extract and analyse data from public company disclosures. 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.