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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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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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

JUNE 15, 2023

The European supervisory authorities (ESAs) and EU national competent authorities (NCAs) will need to build out their in-house resources and skill sets to effectively identify and handle instances of greenwashing by financial institutions, but greater guidance is recommended by observers rather than new waves of regulation.

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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. The methodological change had a big impact on the estimate of U.S.

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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 But those who are embedded in AI and its hype cycle caution about “techno-solutionism,” greenwashing and the various unintended consequences of the AI revolution.

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James Militzer

MAY 19, 2022

The Problem of Misleading Information, Misinformation and Missing Information. Information has played a crucial role in creating and perpetuating this gap – specifically misleading information, misinformation and missing information. Missing information also contributes to this gap.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Investors are increasingly considering sustainability beyond the risk management lens, with the global impact investing market reaching an estimated US$1.64 Under Japan’s Presidency of the G7, the ITF will be continuing its work throughout 2023, advocating for the implementation of its impact recommendations across jurisdictions.

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Sir Ronald Cohen, veteran venture capitalist and impact investing guru, explains why he believes we’re on the verge of an impact revolution. Last month, the IFVI issued its draft methodology for impact accounting, building on the work of Harvard Business School’s Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative , which Cohen also chaired.

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Chris Hall

JULY 15, 2022

European financial regulators’ efforts to police environmental impact claims are ineffective and create a greater risk of greenwashing. This is the excoriating view from the 2° Investing Initiative (2DII), an independent, non-profit think tank working to align financial markets and regulations with the Paris Agreement goals.

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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

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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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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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

I work tirelessly to ensure that the sustainability and impact projects that I lead have an equity-informed and -integrated lens,” they say. And he hopes that his impact-investing management firm (which he co-founded and helped launch this summer) will play an important role in closing the US$2.5-trillion

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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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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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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2023

But if you are not willing to concede any returns from your “impact” investments, your options are limited. We interviewed more than two dozen professionals with expertise in asset management, impact investment, asset allocation, and measurement. As a bonus, you may be able to see the results for yourself.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Since the IA began tracking these funds in 2000, responsible fund inflows have “tended to be more consistent than non-responsible investment funds” across both retail and institutional markets, she says. ESG integration alone is not sufficient for inclusion.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 4, 2023

He wants the World Bank to “think creatively, take informed risks and forge new partnerships with civil society and multilateral institutions”. In the absence of such a paradigm, ‘impact-washing’ is fast becoming the most duplicitous form 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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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

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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James Militzer

MAY 31, 2024

However, despite this positive shift in consumer investment choices, a considerable portion of these ETFs are blatant greenwashing and lack meaningful environmental impact. Green capital must be transparent: Every dollar invested should equal a quantifiable reduction in carbon emissions.

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Chris Hall

JULY 10, 2023

Investors must explore and invest in the development of impact measurement tools, UK-based charity ShareAction has said, challenging the finance sector to adopt an ambitious new definition of ‘responsible investment’ that includes the assessment of real-world social and environmental impacts alongside financial risk and return.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Segal says: “In Canada, there is only attention on how climate change impacts an institution, company or the economy and not enough emphasis on how the decisions they make impact the environment. But she continues: “All investments are impact investments. But she adds: “That’s only for climate disclosures.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 29, 2023

Since January 2022, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) has required listed companies and bond issuers that have committed environmental violations to disclose environmental information on a mandatory basis, she tells ESG Investor. trillion (US$3.57 trillion) growing from RMB 18.4 trillion in 2021.

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Jon Hale

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Global ESG Disclosure Standards for Investment Products Sustainable funds should make better use of the prospectus to describe their approach, and more of them are already doing so. But transparency should be the watchword for sustainable funds, and the place to start is the prospectus.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Kristen Perry 26, Toronto managing director, Spring Investing Collective Kristen Perry is blazing a trail for under-represented Canadians to participate in impact investing. “I It’s fascinating to see the mining industry trying to capitalize on these disasters to justify even more greenwashed destructive projects,” he says.

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James Militzer

MAY 28, 2024

Impact investing and impact measurement are booming. Despite recent challenges, impact investors manage more than $1.1 Meanwhile, the impact measurement and management of ESG, sustainability and impact investing is growing rapidly, projected to expand from a $7.6 billion industry in 2020 to $31.2

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Just Capital

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Forging relationships with company leadership and regularly communicating with them also allows investors to respond more quickly to company crises if problems do arise in their portfolio investments. Beyond these two cases, the remaining asset owners expressed little concern about future legislation impacting their work.

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Chris Hall

JULY 5, 2023

A person close to the Australian Treasury understands that the ‘Finance Agenda’ consultation is likely to include disclosures, taxonomy, transition planning and greenwashing, including financial product labelling. Parker from RIAA welcomes the potential for a product labelling system in Australia.

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