Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As the COP28 meeting begins and the world looks to the financial sector to step up on the climate crisis, the global sustainable investment industry is finally coming to grips with allegations of greenwashing that have plagued it for years. Under the new definitions in 2022, those assets are 14% lower at US$30.3

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The Council noted that under this definition, products that are aimed at reducing ESG risk, without pursuing a specific sustainability goal, will not qualify for a sustainable label.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The EU SFDR regulation includes classification levels for sustainability-focused investment funds, including ‘Article 8’ funds that “promote environmental or social characteristics or a combination of those characteristics,” and the more stringent ‘Article 9’ funds, “which have sustainable investment as their objective.”

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3BL Media

MARCH 21, 2022

Recent prominent media articles have warned of a bubble and criticized sustainable portfolios for being ineffective as agents of change. Sustainable investment funds are mushrooming. Assets under management in Morningstar’s global sustainable fund universe surged to $2.75 We think the critics have missed the point.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Global sustainable investment has passed US$30 trillion, but US excluded from majority of trend analysis figures due to “material change” in methodology. According to the GSIA’s data, the value of sustainable investments in Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand has risen from US$18.2 trillion to US$21.9

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GreenBiz

APRIL 23, 2021

Water is one of the nine themes that make up the sustainable investment philosophy at Essex. However, William Page, portfolio manager at Essex Investment Management Company, pointed out the other eight themes are all closely connected to water as well. . Essex: Water is an expression of climate change at a local level.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

DESCRIPTION: This article first appeared in Sustainable Investment: [link]. Sustainability disclosure and client demand is fundamentally changing how fund management teams operate. For Article 9 funds, investment teams rarely get away with outsourcing such activity. By Ian Povey-Hall. SOURCE: Acre. Here's how.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 13, 2023

In response to accusations of greenwashing and growing regulatory scrutiny, a group of high-powered financial networks is working to standardize the often-opaque jargon of the responsible investing industry. The value of global sustainable investment assets jumped from US$23 trillion in 2016 to US$35 trillion in 2020.

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Environmental Finance

JULY 25, 2024

The EU should ditch the 'sustainable investment' definition in its Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and introduce a two-tier categorisation system that would effectively replace the current SFDR Articles 8 and 9, an EU regulator recommends.

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Chris Hall

JULY 3, 2024

Fidelity International has made revisions to its sustainable investing framework to adjust to a changing ESG regulatory landscape, aiming to provide investors with greater transparency on its funds. The post Fidelity Confirms Sustainable Investing Framework Shift appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 22, 2023

The amount of these pension funds’ actual investments labelled as “sustainable” rose to $276 billion in 2021, up from just $163 billion a year earlier. The dashboard shows that sustainable investments composed nearly 13% of the pension funds’ total assets of $2.2 trillion, versus just 7% of $2.1

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

However, there is always room for improvement, even among these leaders, and especially when it comes to disclosing specifics in their sustainable financing commitments. Finally, we ’ d be clear on which definitions were being used and which taxonomy the definitions were derived from.” .

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The speech – accompanied by an official backgrounder on the new sustainable investing guidelines – included two main themes: progress on a green labelling taxonomy and movement to formalize corporate climate disclosures for major companies in federal law. Gas cannot be transitioned.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Many sustainability-focused investment managers and asset owners remain anxious that the UKs Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has removed all mention of environment and society from its definition of stewardship. Last week, the FRC said that 297 institutions had signed its Stewardship Code so far, accounting for a total of 52.3

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ESG Today

APRIL 30, 2024

Business and financial markets information service provider Bloomberg announced the launch of a new tool aimed at helping investors assess and screen portfolios, funds and indices based customized sustainability criteria and thresholds, available on the Bloomberg Terminal.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Industry bodies align on key sustainable finance-related definitions to offer end-users greater “consistency and clarity”. Each definition includes a detailed explanation, a list of definitions from organisations that served as the primary inputs, and additional guidance for utilising these definitions in practice.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

1 Seventy percent of investors in full- or part-time jobs would probably or definitely include sustainable funds in their 401(k)s if offered by their employers’ plans. assets was either in sustainable investments or tied to ESG practices, 3 with assets set to surge from $35 trillion to $50 trillion in the next three years.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 3, 2022

and Canadian banks and large investment managers. . But in the last 12 months, there has been heavy criticism over the lack of climate action by GFANZ’s leading members, most notably U.S. Former U.S. Greenwashing is truly a clear and present danger.”.

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Jon Hale

DECEMBER 10, 2021

End of Week Notes Spelling out terms and clarifying the scope of the field will produce better outcomes This was the year that sustainable investing became truly entrenched in the investment world. Assets continued to move into sustainable funds. include sustainable funds in retirement plans. It is not activism.

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Environmental Finance

JANUARY 30, 2023

The CEO of Mirova has warned the European Commission not to become too "strict" in its definition of sustainable investment, or it will risk "killing" its Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).

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Impakter

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

There are a lot of questions and doubts about its definition. How does it differentiate from sustainable finance? How impact and sustainable investing could fit into it? What Is Green Finance and Why Does it Matter so Much? What is green finance? What countries are the best for green finance? What is green finance?

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3BL Media

MARCH 21, 2022

Just as it is important to create impact investing portfolios to help clients meet their needs, it’s equally important for you to understand how your money is working to meet your goals and generating better outcomes for society and the environment. That material does not provide individually tailored investment advice. 11,188,983.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The Sustainable Index and EFT methodology enables index and ETF providers to build, define and/or market products that fall within the European Union’s definition of Sustainable Investment, outlined in Article 2(17) of the SFDR.

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Environmental Finance

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), CFA Institute, and Global Sustainable Investment Alliance (GSIA) have published a harmonised set of definitions for investment managers around five of the most commonly used responsible investment strategies.

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Jon Hale

APRIL 5, 2022

Sustainability Matters Few ESG funds exclude defense stocks or all fossil-fuel stocks From the very first days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the war has been held up as supposedly revealing “fundamental flaws” in sustainable investing. Critics seem to think sustainable investing is dogmatic, monolithic, and undifferentiated.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

According to Morningstar, the platform recognizes a wide set of investors’ motivations and preferences regarding ESG investing, ranging from risk avoidance to contribution to sustainable impact. Investable World also provides investors with access to research-driven investment education resources across each of the key themes.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Environmentalists may choose to invest in companies that produce durable products from natural materials. Terms like sustainable investing, impact investing, and ethical investing were used to describe this activity. These terms, however, lacked clear definitions. In the U.S.,

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The CISL report acknowledges that there is no universal definition of what constitutes an engagement. However, according to the reports findings, only 6% of environmental and social proposals are successful, suggesting that shareholder voting has only limited influence in the pivot towards sustainable investment.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Difficulties in definition continue to thwart efforts to demonstrate the financial benefits of sustainable investments. Sustainable fund flows attracted US$37 billion of net new money in Q4 2022, with global sustainable fund assets reaching a total of US$2.5

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 30, 2024

“One key benefit of transition funds is that they have huge flexibility and a wide variety of approaches, allowing for diverse strategies that target different sectors, regions or stages of the decarbonisation journey,” Rumi Mahmood, Research Director at the MSCI Sustainability Institute, tells ESG Investor.

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ESG Today

JULY 25, 2024

The document also includes recommendations aimed at establishing the EU Taxonomy as the sole reference point to be used to assess and measure sustainability performance, noting that the SFDR – which predates the Taxonomy – provides its own, more flexible, definition of sustainable investments.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

EV Battery Investment to $14 Billion Rio Tinto, Prysmian Partner to Build Sustainable Supply Chain for Energy Transition Materials Porsche Signs Deal for Low Carbon Steel Apple, Nike, Launch Initiative to Accelerate Adoption of Clean Energy in Supply Chains ESG Reporting & Disclosure SEC Chair: Investors Want Supply Chain Emissions Reporting to (..)

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This reclassification reflects an increase in “conscious conservatism” by Canadian asset managers in the absence of industry- or government-regulated definitions, criteria or standards, she says, causing many managers “to err on the side of caution” and strip the “responsible investment” classification from some of their portfolios. .

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 15, 2022

MIM to expand sustainable investing solutions for institutional clients. December 15, 2022 /3BL Media/ MetLife Investment Management (MIM) , the institutional asset management business of MetLife, Inc. Goulart, president of MIM and executive vice president and chief investment officer for MetLife. SOURCE: MetLife, Inc.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Investors have been in limbo for six months about the future of the regulation, which provides guidelines on the disclosures required of green investment vehicles. InfluenceMap also reported that Article 8 funds had cumulatively invested 43.8 billion (US$46 billion) in fossil fuel companies compared to 39.4

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Mazzacurati noted that the introduction of SFDR did lead to more extensive disclosure in investment fund documentation concerning ESG characteristics or sustainable investment objectives.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 2, 2023

Prop osed compromises will limit investors’ ability to make “critical” sustainable investment decisions. The European Sustainable Investment Forum (Eurosif) has urged investors to call on the European Commission to reconsider proposed changes that would weaken the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).

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