Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including FTSE Russell, BondLink, Moody’s, Intercontinental Exchange and more. . It consists of two indexes, the FTSE JPX Net Zero Japan 500 index and the FTSE JPX Net Zero Japan 200 index.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

They are no longer high-impact, low-likelihood events but are now high-impact, high-likelihood, and we need to mitigate and plan for them.” “The vast majority of climate change economic papers are based on scientifically false assumptions,” the Carbon Tracker report says.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 17, 2024

Emphasizing the impact of a company’s core products and services, the Global 100 is one of the world’s most valued and transparent sustainability ratings. To determine its rankings, over 6,000 companies were assessed across 25 key performance indicators including sustainable investment, carbon productivity and racial and gender diversity.

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Chris Hall

JULY 7, 2023

More details promised on sector-specific net zero roadmaps to stimulate investment in sustainable infrastructure. The UK government has acknowledged the need for greater policy clarity to enable the flow of investment into key sectors to deliver sustainable infrastructure and transition to net zero.

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3BL Media

MARCH 1, 2022

BMO GAM (EMEA), which together with Columbia Threadneedle Investments has more than 650 investment professionals in North America, Europe and Asia, will focus on the mining and utilities industries, and scrutinise the areas with the most potential for change, including the US, Japan and South Korea.

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

11 young professionals on the future of sustainable finance. The Emerging Leaders program aims to foster a community of sustainability professionals that is diverse and representative of the world in which we live. Their creative thinking and perspective will help build more sustainable solutions for the future.".

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 25, 2024

The previous completion date for Sizewell C was 2027, but it is now expected to be finished as late as 2031. The potential social and environmental ramifications of an event such as Chernobyl or Fukushima is also front of mind for investors.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Puro.earth’s high integrity carbon removals, the CO2 Removal Certificate (CORC), are in line with the guidance of Oxford Principles for net zero, providing companies with a much-needed tool in their efforts to reach their net zero targets. 1 Not categorized as ESG products and services for financial reporting.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 18, 2024

Transition” refers to activities that do not meet the green thresholds now but are on a pathway to net zero or contributing to net zero outcomes. The measures in sum: The package of measures is intended to improve trust and transparency in the market for sustainable investment products and minimize greenwashing.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Earlier in the meeting, Neelam Chhiber, Co-Founding and Managing Trustee at India-based Industree Foundation, said estimates suggested that the capital required to meet net zero by 2050 would total US$150 trillion, with at least two-thirds of having to be allocated outside of North America and Europe. “Our actions cannot be localised,” he said.

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Chris Hall

JULY 6, 2023

Ex-Invesco Research Director Hazra to Lead First Sentier MUFG Sustainable Investment Institute, with research planned on engagement, human rights, biodiversity and diversity beyond gender. Other recent reports covered microplastics, microfibres and the challenges of the “rapid evolution” of sustainable investment for fund governance.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Natron's cutting-edge sodium-ion batteries presented an ideal opportunity to both potentially expand our sustainability investment portfolio to our ground operations, and to help make our airport operations more resilient. Learn more about their sustainability investments here: [link].

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

COP27 deadline for Green Finance Strategy likely to be missed, as investors await details on sustainable investment framework. A separate letter was submitted by the CEOs of more than 100 global corporates with a UK presence, calling on Truss to tie her growth plans to a net zero and nature positive investment agenda.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

In this article, I’ll summarise key events defining 2022 and present four sustainability trends that will prepare you to create an impact in 2023. 2022 Sustainability Summary. Among investors, sustainable investing is evolving from negative screening toward engaging with companies.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Role of active stewardship across environmental and social themes emphasised at ESG Risk & Investment Asia 2022. . An investor’s decision to divest “doesn’t mean an end to all ESG-focused engagement with that company”, according to Eric Nietsch, Head of Sustainable Investing for Asia at Manulife Investment Management. .

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

The UK’s Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) hit a significant milestone last week with the release of its final set of transition plan resources to help businesses mobilise finance for the net zero transition. It is also engaging with various policy bodies, such as the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action and GFANZ.

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3BL Media

MAY 20, 2022

This led the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment and the Payne Institute for Public Policy to help form the Coalition on Materials Emissions Transparency – a partnership that enables the sharing of research between institutions as they advance carbon accounting discussions. [1]. Footnotes. [1]

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 16, 2023

However, there are also bright spots, such as the Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) and progress on creating a set of labels for sustainable funds. . The plans include Sustainable Disclosure Requirements (SDR) from the financial sector and a related sustainable investment labelling regime.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 31, 2023

Despite growing sustainable investment opportunities across Africa, “business-as-usual” finance system reinforces funding gap. Earlier this year, France hosted the New Global Financing Pact , an event aiming to coordinate and accelerate international action to address financing needs in the Global South.

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3BL Media

JUNE 17, 2022

Announced plans to build the world's first net-zero carbon emissions, integrated ethylene cracker and derivatives site in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. Accelerating sustainability investments to enable design for recyclability and more circular plastics. such as Dow's obligation to indemnify DuPont de Nemours, Inc.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 24, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including the ISSB, Hymans Robertson, 2DII, ACA Group, Edison, UKSIF and Util. . Olivia Mooney joins as RI Consultant from the Principles for Responsible Investment and will be the stewardship lead in the team.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2023

To quickly grasp the scale of their nature-related exposures, investors and corporates should view new reporting and risk management processes as an extension of existing climate strategies, delegates heard at the PRI in Person 2023 event.

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Chris Hall

JULY 10, 2023

billion) of net zero investment annually across all sectors by 2030, including £1.5 billion in annual investment in agriculture by 2035. This will include making recommendations on how businesses and financial institutions can best incorporate just transition principles into their net zero plans.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This combined effect with the Ukraine war is causing clients to accelerate their interest in adopting sustainability plans and ESG business methods. Due to the high media coverage over these events and the impacts on energy, global warming, and more, sustainability is now a topic for all companies.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The ‘ Nature Target Setting Framework for Asset Managers and Asset Owners ’ seeks to provide guidance to investors in establishing targets and directing financial resources in line with the mission of the GBF, aiming to protect 30% of terrestrial and marine habitats by 2030. trillion in AUM.

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3BL Media

APRIL 2, 2022

“Their expertise and institutional partnerships are greatly valued and will go a long way in helping Ceres catalyze bolder private sector action and drive policy solutions throughout the economy to build a more just and sustainable net zero emissions future.”. Prior to joining CalPERS, Ms.

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Chris Hall

JULY 21, 2022

Sindhu Krishna, Head of Sustainable Investments at Phoenix Group, explains how the asset owner is holding managers to account. If the UK stands any chance of minimising further dangerous heatwaves, it must take the necessary steps to realise its target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050; an ambition that needs £2.7

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Chris Hall

MAY 3, 2023

The landscape for climate-focused passive investments has changed rapidly, but more work is needed to address physical risks to portfolios, as extreme weather events threaten businesses and critical infrastructure. In Q4 2022, six of the top ten sustainable investment products globally were passive strategies, securing more than US$6.7

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 9, 2020

Degree World” was held in partnership with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) , ICLEI , and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). The event’s panels on the first day were focused on the decarbonization of the power, transport, industry, and buildings sectors.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 9, 2023

The energy supply sector is the largest contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions , responsible for approximately 35% of total emissions. “Buildout of proven renewable infrastructure is one of the key levers to clean up energy supply,” Frances Aderhold, Sustainable Investing Research Analyst at FTI, told ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 1, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including S&P DJI, Impact Cubed, Apex, Sweep, K2 Integrity, RepRisk, ICE, and Confluence. . Index provider S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) has launched the iBoxx EUR Corporates Net Zero 2050 Paris-Aligned ESG Index.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Investors discussed the practical challenges of climate- and nature- positive investing at a recent Paris roundtable hosted by S&P Global Sustainable1 and ESG Investor. Finding investible projects can be a challenge. Investors are keen to fund the transition to net zero, but somewhat less so to take a leap in the dark.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Dutch pension fund PME defended divestment as an effective investor response to the slow pace of decarbonisation in the energy sector at Morningstar’s Sustainable Investing Summit 2023. Speaking at the event, Daan Spaargaren, Senior Responsible Investment Strategist at PME, said although divestment is a blunt tool, the pension fund has witnessed (..)

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 1, 2023

When it comes to making sustainable investments, the future is uncertain, the tools are imperfect, and disclosures are far from complete. This past year, we worked to provide net zero signatories with the opportunity to fulfil their net zero reporting requirement through their annual PRI reporting submission.

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Chris Hall

MAY 5, 2023

Anti-ESG blueprint – Perhaps too often, this blog has contrasted unfavourably the progress of the UK on implementing sustainable investment regulation with that of the European Union. The future of this counter-action by energy firms may depend on the response of shareholders at Total’s AGM on 26 May.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 11, 2022

This is why we are delighted that IIGCC has been selected to collaborate with partners in this space to develop the Nature Action 100 initiative, leveraging our experience in supporting successful corporate engagements on climate change and net zero in a new area. Andrew Niebler, co-founder, Karner Blue Capital, LLC.,

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Chris Hall

JULY 22, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including OS-Climate, CIPFA, Isio, ICE, Urgentum and Banca March. . The Climate Portfolio Alignment Tool will aid stakeholders in aligning portfolios at individual holdings and loan levels with the Paris Agreement temperature increase.

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