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ESG is the private equity industry’s next frontier

Corporate Knights

Shilpa Tiwari is executive vice-president of social impact and sustainability at Citizen Relations and the founder of Her Climb. In 2015, the United Nations established the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – a blueprint of 17 ways to make the world a more just, inclusive and sustainable place.

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This Week’s People Moves: OTPP Hires Sustainable Investing Head

Chris Hall

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including OTPP, IOSCO, Legal & General, AXA IM, Persefoni and UKSIF. . Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board has appointed Anna Murray as Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Sustainable Investing.

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KKR 2021 Sustainability Report: Climate

3BL Media

We see climate as a global challenge that requires solutions at all levels, and we are thinking about how we invest, where we invest, and what we do to drive value creation. INTEGRATING climate considerations in our investment process. INVESTING IN A SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TRANSITION.

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Surfing the Sustainability Wave

Chris Hall

CalSTRS Sustainable Investment Director Kirsty Jenkinson talks about taking a hard line on companies failing to disclose emissions properly and treating proxy voting as seriously as portfolio investments. A key aspect under the net zero transition category for CalSTRS, is methane mitigation.

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Hari Balasubramanian on Investor Interest in Nature-based Solutions

3BL Media

Nature-based solutions to the climate crisis are gaining the attention of impact investors, but companies still face hurdles when it comes to investing in nature-based projects. This has led to regulatory pressure and voluntary commitments to net zero. Interest in nature-based investments.

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Which banks are financing the clean energy transition?

Corporate Knights

The real question is, are the world’s banks ready to fund the development of renewable technologies at scale, and updating all the infrastructure in between? However, there is always room for improvement, even among these leaders, and especially when it comes to disclosing specifics in their sustainable financing commitments.

Banking 360
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More Focus, More Impact 

Chris Hall

The investment community may have limited control over net zero targets, but it can enable better outcomes, says London Business School Executive Fellow Tom Gosling. At the time, the Glasgow Agreement that ensued from COP26 had freshly been signed and the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) had also been formed.