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A Business Guide to Sustainable Finance

3BL Media

Negative screening This is the process of excluding certain sectors, companies, or practices from a portfolio based on specific ESG criteria. For example, investors might avoid companies involved in fossil fuels, tobacco, or arms manufacturing due to their negative environmental or social impacts.

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This Week’s Tech and Tools News: NatureAlpha Joins UN Biodiversity Data Initiative

Chris Hall

It incorporates negative screening and norm-based exclusion filters applied in accordance with the UN Global Compact Principles, as well as exclusion screening for companies involved in unconventional oil & gas, coal, controversial weapons and tobacco activities.

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A Realist’s Guide to Investing for Good

Stanford Social Innovation

As a result, to feel better, these investors want to screen out problematic companies from their investment portfolio. To serve this constituency, asset managers have long offered “values” or “socially responsible” (SRI) funds that offer a “negative screen.”

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This Week’s Fund News: Invesco Rebadges UK Companies Fund as Sustainable

Chris Hall

The fund will implement negative screening to exclude weapons, thermal coal, gambling and tobacco. These companies will be contributing to reducing carbon emissions, protecting ecosystems, improving access to digital learning or investing in modern healthcare industries.

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Sustainable investments had secretly great year

Corporate Knights

According to reports from Bloomberg New Energy Finance and the International Energy Agency, green themes like renewable energy, green buildings and electric cars are seeing double-digit growth in capital investments. The green economic transition is unstoppable. Invesco ESG NASDAQ 100 Index ETF (QQCE) 99.3%