ESG Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

CPP Investments, the investment manager of the Canada Pension Plan, announced today the appointment of Richard Manley as Chief Sustainability Officer. Manley has been serving as Head of Sustainable Investing at CPP Investments, since joining the firm in 2019.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 17, 2023

Investors must now apply a double materiality perspective to their sustainable investment process to ensure real economy impacts, according to Louis Bromfield, Lead Sustainable Investment Associate at Foresight Capital Management. Infrastructure is the essential backbone to modern economies and societies.

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3BL Media

APRIL 19, 2022

But the sustainable investing boom has not been without growing pains. Asset managers are launching funds labelled as sustainable; firms are creating new roles to oversee sustainable investments; and a new crop of sustainability-minded startups are drawing large funding rounds.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 27, 2023

These standards can provide the foundation for advancing shared sustainability objectives, whether you’re a corporate financial institution, a government, or a regulator.” “Communicating this information consistently can unlock competitive advantages in terms of business relationships,” she added.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Liudmila Strakodonskaya, Responsible Investment Analyst, AXA IM, said: “Nature protection is a challenge that needs to be addressed to preserve the existence of our societies and global economies. Companies and investors must integrate nature and biodiversity considerations in their research, engagement and investment processes.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

To that end, investors such as the SEIU and Trillium have filed resolutions related to racial justice in unprecedented numbers and scope this year, according to the 2021 Proxy Preview produced by nonprofits the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2), As You Sow and Proxy Impact.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 22, 2022

A global improvement in students’ collaborative problem-solving capacity to the average level of today’s top 10 scoring countries could add an additional $2.54 trillion in increased productivity to the global economy. *. To do this, we know we need to invest in the future manufacturing workforce.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

G&A's Sustainability Highlights (02.01.2022). DESCRIPTION: “I believe the de-carbonization of the global economy is going to create the greatest investment opportunity of our lifetime.” BlackRock manages US$10 trillion in assets (as of end of 2021), of which $500 billion is in sustainable investments.

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3BL Media

JULY 12, 2023

Employees are seeking safety, security, and stability; regulators seek to ensure their communities are protected from contamination and competition for resources; investors are seeking “sustainable investments” and projects; and business leaders must protect and grow their organization in an ever-changing global economy.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 16, 2023

As climate change climbs on the list of corporate priorities, resource allocations to address these issues has grown, with three quarters of the executives indicating that their organizations have increased sustainability investments over the past year, including 19% who reported increases of 20% or more.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The frequency of catastrophic heatwaves, flooding and droughts continues to have an increasingly deadly and devastating impact on all parts of society—including the global economy. The world is facing unprecedented impacts from a warming planet. The latest National Climate Assessment found the U.S.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including OnePlanetCapital, Cardano Advisory, Marsh, Brown Advisory and Xpansiv. Anthony Chant has been appointed as Investment Director at OnePlanetCapital , the climate change focused early-stage venture capital fund.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

By: Bruno Sarda, TMT Climate Change & Sustainability Services Leader, Ernst & Young LLP Leaders from across the globe recently reconvened for the World Economic Forum’s 53rd annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, and covered everything from the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, to the state of the global economy and more.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Natural capital provides the building blocks that enable ecosystem services—the positive benefits that societies and economies derive from nature—to sustain life and create wealth. Biodiversity is, quite simply, the world’s life support system, the foundation from which nearly all goods and services are produced.

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

With ESG gaining more attention and more companies committing to reaching net-zero emissions in the coming decades or otherwise pledging to do better by people and the planet, it’s inevitable that the next generation of professionals in the field will define the future of sustainable finance.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 25, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Federated Hermes, SLM Partners, DIF, PGGM, MEAG and Future Planet Capital. . Global asset manager Federated Hermes has launched a Biodiversity Equity fund, with insights from the UK’s Natural History Museum.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Liudmila Strakodonskaya, Responsible Investment Analyst, AXA IM, said: "Nature protection is a challenge that needs to be addressed to preserve the existence of our societies and global economies. Companies and investors must integrate nature and biodiversity considerations in their research, engagement and investment processes.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

The resources included deep-dive guidelines for seven sectors – including asset owners, asset managers and banks; high-level guidance for 30 sectors of the global economy; and advice on how to undertake a transition planning cycle.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including CCLA, Pantheon, Cubera, and Just Climate. . Ben Funnell has been appointed Head of Investment Solutions by UK-based charity fund manager CCLA Investment Management.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Financial organisations thus have a major role to play in the decarbonisation of the global economy, yet it is estimated that since the Paris Agreement in 2015, the 60 largest banks have instead invested $5.5 Clearly much more needs to be done to pivot towards more sustainable investment and lending practices.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In Europe, the Green Taxonomy and Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation have set standards for what counts as sustainable investing, which include private equity. We believe that private markets are uniquely positioned to promote sustainable practices, to the benefit of the planet, society and portfolio performance.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 19, 2022

Louis Bromfield, Lead Sustainable Investment Associate, Foresight Capital Management, identifies the changes needed for mining to play its part in the green transition.

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Chris Hall

JULY 8, 2022

Supporting resilience and just transition are as important as climate mitigation, says Lihuan Zhou, Associate at the World Resources Institute’s Sustainable Finance Center. Sustainable investing is a key part of curbing climate change, and the sector is showing some signs of progress.

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James Militzer

APRIL 19, 2023

Over the last year, Convergence and USAID worked with over 100 stakeholders — including private investor groups managing a combined $130 trillion in assets under management, as well as donor governments and philanthropic foundations — to find a solution to significantly increase sustainable investment.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

Investment industry bodies have underscored the need for double materiality in response to the UK government’s consultation on non-financial reporting.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including MSCI, Tumelo, DSD Lab, Exabel, YoujiVest, R3 and Hope for Justice. .

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Chris Hall

MAY 24, 2022

Over the last five years, the FTSE Environmental Opportunities All Share (EOAS) Index outperformed the FTSE Global All Cap by 5.9%. However, investment in the green economy must grow markedly faster in order to meet global climate targets, the report highlighted. Sectoral splits.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including HSBC AM, Invesco, BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Janus Henderson and Mirova. . Viable companies will include those “designing out” waste and pollution, regenerating natural systems and keeping products and materials in use.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 16, 2022

With the global economy heavily reliant on ocean health, a sustainable future is paramount. To date, the ocean and its ecosystems have provided significant benefits to the global community, including climate regulation, coastal protection, food, employment, recreation and cultural well-being.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

By including gas, the EU is “giving the false impression that gas is ‘green’, which might lead to the wrong investment decisions” and potentially “delay the large-scale investments we need into renewables”, says Diamantopoulou. Investing in a renewable future.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 21, 2023

In its latest synthesis report , the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a “final warning”, calling for swift and decisive action to keep global average temperature rise to <1.5°C Averting this cataclysm requires the reduction of global anthropogenic greenhouse (GHG) emissions to net zero by 2050.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

At COP26, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero ( GFANZ ) declared a sector-wide commitment of US$130 trillion – a number that has increased over the year to US$150 trillion – of private capital to transition the global economy to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. Demanding data.

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Chris Hall

JULY 6, 2022

It is through good stewardship that corporate engagement can drive high carbon emitting companies to develop and implement a net zero transition plan, which will ultimately help to decarbonise the global economy,” says Stephanie Pfeifer, CEO at the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). .

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Among investors, sustainable investing is evolving from negative screening toward engaging with companies. Impact investing is getting traction and, in 2022, reached 1.2 trillion in AUM, according to a report by the Global Investing Network. Sustainability trends 2023: Net-Zero roadmaps.

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3BL Media

JULY 27, 2023

That loss would be a massive hit to the global economy. is not a party to the convention, but that matters little in these days of the global economy and the multinational companies many of you work for or the international supply chains you are all part of. I have to clarify that the U.S.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Mediolanum, KBI Global Investors, Pictet Asset Management, Invesco, Nuveen, SWEN Capital Partners and SIS Ventures.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Rocher added that these companies face a “unique set of challenges” compared to their larger counterparts. These include a lack of time, expertise and guidance for climate – related initiatives.

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