3BL Media

APRIL 19, 2022

Jordan Locke, a recruitment consultant in Acre's Global Sustainable Finance & Impact Investing Team, sat down with Business Insider alongside a group of industry experts to discuss the current ESG talent shortage, ‘greenwashing’ and the rapid pace of change. . Greenwashing kind of falls into that same skepticism.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 5, 2024

The survey, released Monday by Morgan Stanley’s Institute for Sustainable Investing, was conducted in October … Continue reading Sustainable investments are still rising, so are greenwashing concerns: Morgan Stanley

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Stanford Social Innovation

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Martin & Brandon Leppke The next step in impact investing is the Delaware statutory public benefit limited partnership, which provides clarity of definition, assuages fears of greenwashing, and harmonizes manager incentives with public good. By Frank J.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

For more than a decade, responsible investing in Canada experienced steady upward growth. A new report says that trend has reversed itself in the last two years, as the industry struggles to respond to allegations of greenwashing and a tougher regulatory environment. . More to be done on responsible investing.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The growing use of ESG-related language in fund names and documentation without transparency and underlying evidence increases greenwashing risk, ESMA warned.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2022

“The ESG fund boom shows that investors want to see ESG factors taken into account, but it’s tricky to provide evidence a fund does that,” said Arleta Majoch, chief operating officer at Impact Cubed. Linking our factual data to tech-enabled tools is a powerful antidote to ESG ratings confusion and concerns about greenwashing.”

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Anti-greenwashing rules and guidance may become “diamond standard”. Anti-greenwashing guidance proposed by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), as well as the promise of extending the finalised Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDRs) to pension products, has been welcomed by the investment industry.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As the COP28 meeting begins and the world looks to the financial sector to step up on the climate crisis, the global sustainable investment industry is finally coming to grips with allegations of greenwashing that have plagued it for years. where the tighter definitions have been felt most. “We

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

According to the organizations, the new resource follows significant growth in recent years in investor interest in ESG issues, driving a proliferation of investment products and practices, but also leading to new terminology that can be unclear or inconsistent.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The future lies in impact investing. Even if we quickly agree on disclosure frameworks and measurements around biodiversity, disclosures that are voluntary and not supported by regulation are vulnerable to greenwashing which is widespread in the ESG space.

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ESG Today

JULY 31, 2022

Singapore Unveils Disclosure Rules for ESG Funds to Reduce Greenwashing Risk. Guest Post: Combatting Greenwashing. Accenture Invests in ESG Measurement Platform PulsESG. Allfunds Acquires ESG Investment Services and Analytics Provider Mainstreet Partners. ESG Reporting & Disclosure. ESG Services and Tools.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

This week in ESG news: EU adopts new law against greenwashing; Walmart reaches 1 billion ton supply chain emissions reduction milestone; S&P forecasts $1 trillion sustainable bond market in 2024; Airbus, TotalEnergies launch sustainable aviation fuel partnership; Verizon invests $1 billion in renewable energy; EU lawmakers agree to certification (..)

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In 2023, regulatory scrutiny into funds’ aims, names and stated impact will intensify in order to direct capital more effectively toward sustainable 2050 targets and to curb greenwashing and over-promising. This year, we can expect regulations and enforcement to make greenwashing more ‘obvious’ and accordingly harder to get away with.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 26, 2023

25 – Are carbon markets a key pillar of climate finance, or an empty exercise in double-counting and greenwashing? The post Voluntary carbon markets face a reckoning over credit quality and environmental impact appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Jan. After soaring.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 20, 2023

Million in bp-led Funding Round Exec Moves KKR Launches New Leadership Team for Global Climate Strategy Nuveen Appoints Ted Maa Managing Director of Private Equity Impact Investing Solar Inverter Market Oxy Acquires DAC Carbon Removal Provider Carbon Engineering for $1.1

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In mid-September, ESG Investor and Artemis Investment Management gathered asset owners and other experts to consider the current and future state of impact investments. Appetite for impact was strong, guided by emerging frameworks, but the forces of inertia were present too, both internal and external. Setting objectives.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 23, 2022

Assets in European impact funds increased by 50% in 2021 compared to 2020, as demand for the classification increases in the wake of greenwashing claims against funds elsewhere in the sustainable investment universe. of total European funds’ net assets currently follow an impact investing approach.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 1, 2022

The UK impact investment market reached an estimated £58 billion in 2020 according to research published last month, which while representing a significant increase in total market share still amounts to less than 1% of the available assets under management. A survey conducted by the Impact Investing Institute reveals growing interest.

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Chris Hall

MAY 9, 2023

CEO Sam Duncan said new tech capabilities, such as artificial intelligence (AI), are needed to address the proliferation of sustainability data which is creating confusion for users of ESG ratings giving rise to accusations of greenwashing.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 17, 2022

Sceptics remain unconvinced , their reservations over financial institutions’ commitments reinforced by news of further regulatory crackdowns on greenwashing, this time at Goldman Sachs , accused of overstating the credentials of its green funds.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Pacifists may choose not to invest in companies that manufacture weapons. Environmentalists may choose to invest in companies that produce durable products from natural materials. Terms like sustainable investing, impact investing, and ethical investing were used to describe this activity.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 11, 2023

The rules were issued for consultation in January 2022, with the aim to enhance the transparency of disclosures on sustainability-related products, improve product comparability, and guard against greenwashing. . It must also appropriately reflect this focus in its investment objectives or strategy in its registration statement. .

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 29, 2023

A ton of climate tech companies are working on solutions that leverage AI,” says Ariel Sharir, an impact investing analyst at The Atmospheric Fund. “It Ariel Sharir, impact investing analyst, The Atmospheric Fund In architecture, some firms are incorporating analytics and AI into their computer-aided design platforms.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 4, 2023

Despite the commendable and continued efforts of the Impact Taskforce, the Global Impact Investing Network, the Impact Management Project and other trailblazers, impact investing desperately needs an indisputable reference point – a model, an exemplar, an incontrovertible template for success.

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James Militzer

MAY 19, 2022

For example, fossil fuel companies have engaged in ever more blatant greenwashing , touting clean energy in their annual reports and strategies but showing little progress in changing their actual business practices. Missing information also contributes to this gap.

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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. In 2022, the voice against “greenwashing” practices was clear and loud. Figure 2: Word Greenwashing rated 100 in popularity in 2022 – source Google Trends.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The FCA finalised the four new labels – focus, improvers, impact and mixed goals – for UK sustainability-focused funds last year as part of its work to limit greenwashing. Fund managers will be able to use them from 31 July, with disclosures required 12 months later.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Nascent movement   Speaking at the biodiversity summit, Leo Niesel, Senior Investment Research Specialist at Mercer, affirmed that the UK’s biodiversity credit scheme would come into force next week.  There’s so much debate about it, but I think there’s a high-quality carbon credit space,” he responded.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 8, 2023

Regulatory uncertainty led to many managers downgrading their Article 9 funds to Article 8 in the second half of last year to avoid accusations of greenwashing, but there are some expectations of a resurgence in ‘dark green’ funds.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 13, 2023

Oulton, also Global Head of Responsible Investment at First Sentier Investors, noted that the current methodology doesn’t have a specific category to effectively capture SFDR’s Article 9 funds, which promote environmental and/or social objectives.

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Steven Mintz

MARCH 8, 2022

In addition to divesting from unethical stocks, you can make investments in companies that make a positive change in a practice called  impact investing. Environment, Additionally, impact investing generally gives lower returns than the rest of the stock market.  Barriers to Ethical Consumerism.

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B the Change

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

More Than a Coincidence While some may dismiss this as a public B Corp anomaly, Cambridge University Professor Christopher Marquis shares how investors are actively looking to invest in companies like B Corps with a public benefit corporation (PBC) legal structure.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The European Markets and Securities Authority (ESMA) released an analysis that noted the “absence of harmonised and standardised reporting requirements” for private sector actors against SDG targets, and concluded that most funds claiming to contribute to SDGs neither explained clearly how they aligned, nor invested any differently to non-SDG funds.

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Chris Hall

MAY 23, 2023

In the months leading up to Level 2, some asset managers opted to downgrade various funds to Article 8 to avoid accusations of greenwashing.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2022

These new requirements are part of a bigger push right across the economy for new standards on environmental reporting to weed out greenwashing and support our transition to a net zero financial system – for example, through our new Sustainability Disclosure Requirements ,” she said.

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B the Change

JULY 7, 2022

Indeed, one of the greatest challenges in sustainable finance is how to be sure whether an operation or investment is actually sustainable or simply greenwashing. Intentionality means that investors intend to make a positive environmental or social impact through their investments.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

A report in September by asset manager DWS and independent research boutique CREATE-Research found 22% of pension funds surveyed are implementing, or have already implemented, impact investing as part of their passive investment strategies. Kuh said that the issue of greenwashing is being addressed.

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