ESG Today

AUGUST 8, 2023

Barclays announced today the appointment of James Edmonds as Global Head of Sustainable Project Finance in its Corporate and Investment Bank, leading a project finance team focused on helping clients transition to net zero.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

This week in ESG news: EU adopts new law against greenwashing; Walmart reaches 1 billion ton supply chain emissions reduction milestone; S&P forecasts $1 trillion sustainable bond market in 2024; Airbus, TotalEnergies launch sustainable aviation fuel partnership; Verizon invests $1 billion in renewable energy; EU lawmakers agree to certification (..)

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ESG Today

APRIL 12, 2024

Freier joined Barclays in 2021, and prior to her current role was most recently serving as Global Co-Head of Sustainable and Impact Investment Banking (SIB). Freier will work alongside ETG in EMEA Co-Head Marie Freier.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 20, 2023

Million in bp-led Funding Round Exec Moves KKR Launches New Leadership Team for Global Climate Strategy Nuveen Appoints Ted Maa Managing Director of Private Equity Impact Investing Solar Inverter Market Oxy Acquires DAC Carbon Removal Provider Carbon Engineering for $1.1

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Major Emitters Progressing on Climate Goals, But Lagging on Decarbonization Strategies: CA100+. ESG Investing. Impact Investing Passes $1 Trillion for First Time: Report. BlackRock Launches ESG Bond Fund with £500 Million Investment from Scottish Widows. London Stock Exchange Launches Voluntary Carbon Market.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

trillion fund asks all portfolio companies to set net zero goals; ECB to use climate scores to decarbonize €387 billion bond portfolio; JetBlue orders sustainable aviation fuel made from captured CO2; ASICS launches low-carbon emissions sneakers, and more. ECB Introduces Climate Scores to Decarbonize €387 Billion Corporate Bond Portfolio.

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ESG Today

JUNE 29, 2023

The firm said that the newly created role reflects the critical role that sustainable investment and decarbonization will play in driving future client returns.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

According to La Banque Postale, the new impact debt fund, classified as Article 8 under the SFDR regulation, will provide long-term support for projects that make a substantial contribution to mitigating climate change or are committed to decarbonizing their operations. It will be deployed over a three-year period.

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3BL Media

MAY 24, 2022

The report is part of the Ceres Food Emission 50 initiative, an effort focused on decarbonizing the nation’s food sector. Decarbonizing the U.S. degrees," said Mary Beth Gallagher, Director of Engagement at Domini Impact Investments. “It SOURCE: Ceres. by the end of the decade.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 10, 2022

Insurance has wide-ranging influence, and insurance companies can help decarbonize much more than their own operations. Co-operators puts more than 21% of their invested assets, more than $2.6 billion, into impact investments that aim to solve pressing environmental and social challenges.

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ESG Today

JULY 20, 2023

New investors joining the funding round included Innovation Development Oman Investments, Vopak Ventures, and investors represented by impact investing advisory firm Sagana. Our technology can play a key role in enabling humanity to address the urgency of climate change without waiting until 2030.”

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3BL Media

APRIL 14, 2022

However, the onus is now firmly on government, policy and corporate stakeholders to translate ambition into impact. Supply chain finance plays a key role in unlocking investments towards decarbonization tech and making climate action more accessible to small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

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ESG Today

AUGUST 2, 2023

Demand for low carbon steel is expected to increase significantly, over the next several years, as manufacturers globally aim to decarbonize their supply chains. The global steel industry accounts for 7-9% of global CO2 emissions today, which creates a massive opportunity for Hybar to drive decarbonization at scale.”

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The survey found that around two thirds of investors believe that private asset investing will offer the best opportunities to target key trends such as the energy transition or impact investing, as well as to help achieve diversification goals.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

16 – Energy Impact Partners’ Frontier Fund invests in big-bet climate startups that have proved their decarbonization technology and are poised. The post Energy Impact Partners seals $485 million early stage climate fund appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Nov.

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ESG Today

MARCH 9, 2023

Launched in 2001 as part of TPG’s impact investing platform TPG Rise, TPG Rise Climate invests in companies that can enable carbon aversion in a quantifiable way, in areas including clean energy, enabling solutions, decarbonized transport, greening industrials, and agriculture and natural solutions.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Amazon Commits $50 Million to Invest in Women-led Climate Tech Companies. McKinsey Launches Council Focused on Decarbonizing the Built Environment. EU Commits €3 Billion to Invest in Energy & Industrial Decarbonization Projects. Carlyle Invests $350 Million in Distributed Solar & Storage Platform Aspen Power.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The new fund aims invest in four key areas of technology supporting the achievement of net zero by 2050, including energy transition, decarbonizing industries, sustainable food & agriculture and sustainable transportation. Lightrock raised €860 million for the fund, significantly exceeding its initial €600 million target.

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James Militzer

JANUARY 8, 2024

This year’s contest featured a strong slate of articles, covering a diverse array of topics ranging from systems change to decarbonization , in sectors that included energy , agriculture , finance and more. You can access all the articles in the contest at this link.)

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Tom Sarno, Global Head of Timberland Investments at Manulife Investment Management, said: “We believe high-integrity, verified carbon credits will continue to be viewed as premier decarbonization instruments and that, in time, such carbon markets will eventually come to resemble that of more traditional commodities.”

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ESG Today

JUNE 28, 2022

The growth equity investment was led by TPG Rise Climate , the $7 billion climate investing strategy of TPG’s global impact investing platform, TPG Rise and saw participation from existing investors infrastructure investment firm Climate Adaptive Infrastructure and private equity firm Trilantic Energy Partners North America.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Planet A has invested in 14 green-tech startups to date, with portfolio companies including supply chain decarbonization tech provider Makersite, and carbon mineralization technology company 44.01. Fridtjof Detzner, Founding Partner at Planet A, said: “Green-tech and impact investing is no longer a niche in venture capital.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The indices provide a 50% reduction in carbon intensity versus an equivalent non-ESG market benchmark and a 7% year-on-year ongoing decarbonization pathway. Simon Klein, Global Head of Passive Sales at DWS, said: “We see impact investing as one of the major future tasks for asset managers.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 20, 2023

ImpactAlpha, March 20 – Global finance is not keeping up with the urgent challenge of decarbonizing the economy and helping communities adapt to. The post Global Innovation Lab develops new financial models to tackle climate challenges in emerging markets appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The announcements follow recent sustainable finance appointments at the bank, including the appointment in September of Daniel Hanna as Global Head of Sustainable Finance for the Corporate and Investment Bank, and of Marie Freier as Global Co-Head of Sustainable and Impact Investment Banking.

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Richard Matthews

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In recent years, impact investing has become mainstream and private equity (PE) firms are playing a key role. Despite being dismissed by some as “woke capitalism”, impact investing is a trend that is here to stay. PE firms have helped to grow the popularity of impact investing.

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3BL Media

JUNE 9, 2022

LACI selected Impact investment firm Mission Driven Finance of San Diego, California to assist with loan origination and servicing, as well as supporting underwriting. About Homecoming Capital Homecoming Capital is a climate-focused investment firm that invests in businesses that decarbonize the economy as they grow.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 14, 2023

“I saw the importance of this kind of community investment when, 18 years ago, Anthony and I founded then ran City Kidz Ice Cream Cafe , which incorporated a food science education laboratory that has been held up as a national model,” he continued. Now we want to put this kind of social impact investment to work at a much larger scale.”

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We Mean Business Coalition

MAY 5, 2023

The communiqué focusses on the primary need to accelerate the transition to clean energy and reduce demand for gas, with conditions on any gas investments to be consistent with climate commitments and not create ‘lock in’ effects. Increasingly widespread climate goals are already impacting investment decisions in some parts of the world.

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James Militzer

DECEMBER 22, 2023

As 2023 draws to a close, it’s time for NextBillion’s annual tradition: our “ Most Influential Article of the Year ” contest. We’ve been running the contest since 2012, selecting 12 of our most-read articles from the past year and inviting readers to vote for the ones that influenced their thinking the most. The contest serves three key purposes.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 2, 2022

As a global leader in crop science, we are committed to decarbonizing agriculture and helping farmers around the world become more sustainable through game-changing products and solutions that can impact climate change. This investment and collaboration between industry leaders is another proof point for our efforts.”.

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Sustainability Update

JUNE 28, 2022

Here are Top Stories for you to learn more: Less Than 10% of Climate Funds are Aligned with Global Decarbonization Goals: S&P ( ESG Today )[link]. SEC Proposed to Enhance Disclosures by Investment Advisors and Investment Companies About ESG Investment Practices: [link].

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Kristen Perry 26, Toronto managing director, Spring Investing Collective Kristen Perry is blazing a trail for under-represented Canadians to participate in impact investing. “I I’ve been drawn to entrepreneurship and sustainability from a young age,” she says.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2023

But if you are not willing to concede any returns from your “impact” investments, your options are limited. We interviewed more than two dozen professionals with expertise in asset management, impact investment, asset allocation, and measurement. Investments in physical decarbonization are also limited in scope.

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James Militzer

APRIL 10, 2024

There’s an unfortunate reality at the heart of the discussion on climate justice: Investments aimed at building the resilience of climate-vulnerable communities are falling woefully short — and the private sector is almost entirely absent, with just a 2% share of these investments.

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ESG Today

JULY 23, 2023

Cities Government & Regulators Australia to Launch Decarbonization Plans for Key Sectors Biden Launches $20 Billion Climate and Clean Tech Project Financing Programs Australia Releases Rules for Sustainability Claims to Fight Greenwashing by Companies ESG Reporting & Disclosure Norway’s $1.3

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GreenBiz

APRIL 21, 2021

Let's name it what it [is] and move forward," Jackie VanderBrug, head of sustainable and impact investment strategy at Bank of America, said of the blind spots companies operate with when they fail to consider gender dimensions related to business strategy. .

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