3BL Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

According to a 2021 survey by Morgan Stanley, 99 percent of millennials surveyed were interested in sustainable investing, an all-time high. Interest in sustainability persisted despite the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change is the key focus. More than any other group, millennials are keen to make an impact with their money.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

UK ministers enthuse about the post-Brexit potential to unleash a new wave of green investment, but not everybody is convinced. But Salkeld at ShareAction called for a much more active approach from the authorities to encourage this newly-released money into sustainable investments. “We

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The depth of her technical expertise and wealth of experience progressing sustainable investing makes her ideal to drive our sustainability strategy forward.” Ryan said: “Our industry has an immense role to play in improving sustainable outcomes achieved and financing the transition to net zero.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

When I led Canada’s Social Investment Organization (SIO) in the early 2000s, one of our most important debates concerned the question of whether the organization should develop an industry-wide label for socially responsible investment, as sustainable investing was called back then.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 2, 2023

times more equity in fossil fuel production companies ($880 billion) than in green investments ($309 billion), while the percentage of those carrying out “truly ambitious and effective climate stewardship practices” has shrunk by 45% since 2021: just 18% received an A grade this year, versus 33% in 2021. trillion (all figures in U.S.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 17, 2023

Before joining KKR, Lagarrigue was a founding partner in growth equity firm General Atlantic’s decarbonization-focused fund, BeyondNetZero , and Arora served as head of Macquarie’s Green Investment Group for Asia-Pacific.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2024

Is the nuclear industry using a smokescreen of net-zero to cover up its sustainability problems? After months of contentious debate, the EU agreed to add natural gas and nuclear to its EU taxonomy, the official list of acceptable sustainable investments to help Europe finance its ambitious climate goals.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Article 8 funds promote “environmental and/or social characteristics”, while Article 9 refers to products that have a sustainable investment objective; all holdings within a fund must be sustainable investments that meet the standard of “do no significant harm”.

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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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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Ulrika Leverenz, Head of Green Investment at H&M Group, said: “H&M Group has been engaged in climate mitigation for years and we continuously push ourselves to demonstrate climate leadership within our industry. We see that our industry is committed to tackle its negative climate impact.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 11, 2022

New report provides guidance to asset owners on closing net zero investment gap. . Asset owners should track their contributions to climate change mitigation by calculating the green investment ratio of portfolios and assets, according to a recent report by the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). .

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The announcement marks a win for the UK’s Sunak government, which has set goals to establish itself as a hub for sustainable investment, but has come under fire for not sufficiently responding to the clean energy and industry packages launched by other major economies the U.S.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 31, 2023

the EU and Canada and each region looking to attract massive private sector investments as well. The investors added: “Building on the UK’s position as the world’s largest net exporter of financial services, sustainable finance is a major growth industry in the UK. trillion in assets under management.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Tim Day, Investment Fund Manager at Trina Solar, explains the importance of Europe’s sustainable investment community in the growth of solar power. EU regulation goes hand in hand with a decade-long trend of increased focus on green investment in the EU.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 19, 2021

Southeast Asia is establishing a green finance rulebook to bring greater accountability to sustainable investments. Balancing the needs of countries that have different ambitions to cut carbon emissions will be a major test.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 1, 2023

A European green taxonomy The European Union has produced a green taxonomy that mostly excludes fossil fuel projects from the sustainability label, though it controversially includes some natural gas uses and nuclear as “sustainable” investments.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 7, 2023

The European Union, China, the United Kingdom and about 20 other countries are developing such taxonomies as a way of discouraging greenwashing and channelling investment to the climate transition. The EU’s taxonomy has been particularly controversial because of its inclusion of natural gas and nuclear as “green investments.”

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 8, 2023

times more equity value in fossil fuel production companies (US$880 billion) than in green investments (US$309 billion). Green investments were calculated according to the criteria of the EU taxonomy. trillion of the assessed asset managers’ equity fund portfolios, the report found that managers hold 2.8

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

billion) green investment pledge. But Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves did earn applause from the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association when she recognised “the potential for private capital to finance a significant portion of the UK’s transition to net zero”.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 26, 2022

“Your fiduciary responsibility as an investor needs to account for nature, otherwise you’re not recognizing the underlying value and you’re not understanding the material financial risks associated with your investment decisions,” he says. Lack of investment options. Prime ingredients for value creation.”.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The rise of taxonomies of sustainable activities reflects a recognition from policymakers that global financial markets depend on a shared classification system if they are to identify ‘green’ investment opportunities. This dark green superhighway would run across all taxonomies.

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Eco-Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

"We are excited to partner with Rabo Foundation, which belongs to one of the world's top sustainable agribusiness finance groups, to leverage its investments to mitigate climate change and reduce carbon emissions."

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

IHA said it would expect its members to certify new projects under the Hydropower Sustainability Standard, in line with the organization’s updated membership charter. It will address any confusion about whether a new hydropower project is sustainable and will, crucially, help to unblock green investment and licensing decisions.”.

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We Mean Business Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

The EU Green Taxonomy is one of the cornerstones of the EU Action Plan on financing sustainable growth and is also the foundation of many other pieces of legislation currently being implemented. Striking the right balance between robustness and simplicity is crucial.

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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. Investors are expecting details this week on the new UK government’s strategy on energy and inflation, but time is running out for updates on key climate and green finance policies ahead of COP27.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Levick added that several national entities, including the UK Infrastructure Bank and the British Business Bank plan to utilise the green taxonomy to guide investment decisions.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will closely monitor funds’ use of incoming green investment labels, potentially stopping asset managers from using them in the event of misuse. . Regulator’s ESG head underlines need for market confidence, highlights importance of investor engagement. . International, not isolated .

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Pension fund makes case for divestment, against backdrop of increasingly positive climate policy across major markets.

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Chris Hall

JULY 7, 2023

The strategy focuses on three areas: ensuring transparency across the economy, supporting the development of market pools, and ensuring the necessary transmission channels to shift and scale up the financing of the transition to net zero.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In 2021, China’s Green Bond Endorsed Project Catalogue—its green taxonomy—officially removed ‘clean coal’ and fossil fuel-powered generation, including gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG), from the definition of ‘eligible green project’. The CGT does not have a legal effect and is not formally endorsed by either party.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 26, 2022

As sukuk are linked to assets that may be eligible for green and social projects, they will become vital tools to fund the UN SDGs,” said Shrey Kohli, Director, Head of Debt Capital Markets, London Stock Exchange, and Chair of the HLWG on Green and Sustainability Sukuk. Future growth potential in Gulf.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 10, 2022

Rampant criticism of green investment will only accelerate its maturity. In the two weeks since our last blog, and the three since the Financial Times’ Katie Martin first tweeted about Stuart Kirk’s fêted and ill-fated climate-risk speech, there’s been an avalanche of comment on the failings and misunderstandings of ESG investing.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Pushing for interoperability Although the FCA labels will help to set clear parameters for sustainable funds, the regulator’s proposed labelling scheme “does not define what is or is not a green investment”, Levick said.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2024

Now we can measure this green business exposure for the majority of companies and are able to count annual green investments that run into the trillions, growing six times faster than the economy at large,” Heaps says. When we launched this ranking in 2005, the green economy was a quaint idea.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

“Asset managers have always been reviewing and tweaking their funds – that’s nothing new – but as ESG expands across all markets, tweaking is happening with sustainability in mind,” says Hortense Bioy, Global Director of Sustainability Research at research provider Morningstar.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In her speech introducing the plan today, von der Leyen highlighted how many countries are “stepping up their investment in the net-zero industry,” noting in particular the U.S.’ von der Leyen said: “Let me be very clear on this one: We welcome this, this is good news.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 8, 2023

ING Asset Management’s new SDG Impact Strategy will provide clients with exposure to companies that contribute specifically to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), responding to strong demand for ‘dark green’ investments. The funds downgraded in Q4 2022 were worth a combined €171.1

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