3BL Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Business Benefits of Sustainable Finance Several advantages to sustainable finance go beyond producing dividends. Here are a few of the outcomes that contribute to a company's long-term sustainability and competitiveness. Another way companies reduce operational costs is through investing in a sustainable supply chain.

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3BL Media

MARCH 1, 2022

Human rights are another big focus for the firm, which will focus on engaging with corporates to protect human rights and enhance supply chain management practices. She delivered a series of 5 podcasts to brainstorm solutions around how we could advance ESG & Impact within our own firms, and the wider communities around us.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

See below for the highlights of the past week, and get all your ESG news at ESG Today: Sustainability Goals, Initiatives and Achievements Shell Board of Directors Sued over “Flawed” Climate Strategy Wendy’s Commits to Slash Emissions Across Operations, Franchisees and Supply Chain HVAC Giant Carrier Commits to Net Zero Emissions Across Value Chain (..)

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James Militzer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Working with local and international businesses and investors, CATALYZE explores commercially-viable opportunities and approaches to creating jobs, developing sustainable social services, tightening and rationalizing supply chains, advancing inclusive growth, and protecting natural resources – including the Amazon.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 1, 2022

Net Purpose CEO Sam Duncan explains the need to bring more structure to sustainability data. A survey conducted by the Impact Investing Institute reveals growing interest. A survey conducted by the Impact Investing Institute reveals growing interest. We need more data and fewer scores,” she says.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2024

The report , published alongside the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2) and Proxy Impact, reviewed at least 527 shareholder resolutions filed on ESG issues for the current proxy season. The environment remains a central shareholder concern with more than 190 proposals filed, a near 20% increase on 2023.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This aligns with the broader context of the current state of ESG, where sustainable investing is gaining momentum and making a significant impact on the market.” In May, the EU adopted new rules for deforestation-free products. The post Earth’s Balance Sheet appeared first on ESG Investor.

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James Militzer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It asks investors to consider not only who owns and leads a business, but also the company’s gender strategies and policies, as well as its inclusiveness of women along its supply chain, from its employees all the way to its consumers. Nathalie Gogue-Ebo is a Partner and Katharina Weber is a Project Leader at Open Capital.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 8, 2024

Follow the trend Aiming to capitalise on the positive state of play, Federated Hermes launched the UK Nature Impact Fund last year, alongside environmental impact investment adviser and fund manager Finance Earth. Overall, there’s quite a lot of science behind the outcomes that you’re producing.”

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2024

The report , published alongside the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2) and Proxy Impact, reviewed at least 527 shareholder resolutions filed on ESG issues for the current proxy season. The environment remains a central shareholder concern with more than 190 proposals filed, a near 20% increase on 2023.

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Sense and Sustainability

JANUARY 12, 2022

indigenous populations), as well as working conditions throughout the supply chain (e.g. Another distinction is that ESG investment considers ESG factors to have financial implications, as opposed to only ethical ones. In other words, a positive impact is valued above financial returns.

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Richard Matthews

MARCH 21, 2022

This alphabetized list of PEs is composed of firms that focus on one or more of the following SDGs: Climate action, clean energy, sustainable cities and communities, quality education, innovation and infrastructure, life below water, and life on land. To illustrate, last year KKR ‘s Euro Global Social Impact Fund raised $1.3

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Figure 1: Emerging Regulations and Standards on Sustainability and Climate Disclosure and organizations involved (Source Deloitte ). Besides, mandatory sustainability reporting is also progressing rapidly at the country level. Examples are the Swiss art 964 and the German supply chain act. Thank you GRI! Source VBA.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2022

Increasingly, however, we see that loop between the trustee and the manager closing, with the CIO getting a clearer mandate from trustees on their sustainable investment priorities and providing a more granular steer to asset managers on their expectations.”. Deeper ESG insights desired.

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Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including LSEG, ISS ESG, Mercer, ICE, Euroclear, Scoot Science, Tumelo, GoldenSource and more.

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Chris Hall

MAY 20, 2022

The survey suggests that challenges in finding, collating and analysing social data is the main reason investors favour E over S in sustainable investment strategies. Virtually all the food we eat is grown by a farmer, many of whom are working on small holdings.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 23, 2022

The draft provides “structure” for US companies already reporting climate-related information to investors, said Lisa Woll, CEO of the US Sustainable Investment Forum (US SIF). . Today’s proposal thus is driven by the needs of investors and issuers.” .

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Chris Hall

MAY 31, 2024

As we enter an age of double materiality, allocators all along the investment value chain may find themselves having to go back to first principles and rethink their entire approaches to asset allocation, portfolio construction, fund and security selection and engagement.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 8, 2023

In 2019, just 15% of the US$16.9 billion in climate-related venture capital funding went to start-ups with at least one female founder, BCG said.

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3BL Media

JULY 18, 2022

DESCRIPTION: by Amy Domini, author and founder of Domini Impact Investments . The first phase of the responsible investment movement has matured. We find our approach of arguing that scrutiny of the way companies respect their relationships with people and the planet adds value to the investment decision-making process.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 13, 2024

Many investors also have weapons-focused exclusions enshrined in their investment policies. Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s 2024 statement on sustainable investing, for instance, alluded to its exclusionary framework – which included civilian firearms and controversial weapons.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

A “fuller response” to the IRA and NZIA would have ensured the UK went beyond building net zero infrastructure, maximising benefits from the supply chains of such infrastructure, “both economically and socially”, Serin told ESG Investor.

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Stanford Social Innovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Although ESG investing is often lumped in as part of the broader impact investing ecosystem, it’s important to be clear about their differences at the outset. Changing Course. Could it be that over the long term ESG could come to be seen as a diet of cigarettes and alcohol to shrink a tumor?

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 16, 2024

While his party’s wider anti-ESG agenda is hitting some bumps in the road – a federal judge this week struck down efforts by Missouri’s attorney general to limit ESG investment advice – the impact of a second Trump presidency on sustainable investment remains worryingly unclear. The funding is part of a £1.25

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