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A Business Guide to Sustainable Finance

3BL Media

Negative screening This is the process of excluding certain sectors, companies, or practices from a portfolio based on specific ESG criteria. For example, investors might avoid companies involved in fossil fuels, tobacco, or arms manufacturing due to their negative environmental or social impacts.

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SMEs Can Turn Ambition Into Action With SAP Product Footprint Management for Clean Operations

3BL Media

What’s more, investors are now going beyond “negative screening” and actively backing businesses that are leaders in sustainability, in pursuit of above-market returns. SAP Product Footprint Management for clean operation s is built to specifically address the needs of small and midsize manufacturing and product-centric companies.

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Responsible-investing trailblazer awarded Order of Canada

Corporate Knights

MH: Choosing among responsible investment tools – positive and negative screening, divestment and engagement – is complicated. EE: The debate about divestment versus engagement in fossil fuels is probably more heated now than ever. What are your thoughts on that? It must be addressed by changing the economy.

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Take Five: Immediately and Gradually

Chris Hall

New research finds that many major firms are sending mixed messages on their withdrawal, while reports elsewhere suggest firms including weapons manufacturers continue to evade sanctions. Divestment from Russian investments was a complex affair and an incomplete one.

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ESG Explainer: SFDR One Year on

Chris Hall

It lays down sustainability disclosure obligations for manufacturers of financial products and financial advisers toward end-investors. SFDR Level 1 requires asset management companies to provide information about their investments’ ESG risks and also their impact on society and the environment.

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Intent on Impact

Chris Hall

We believe there is an opportunity cost in negative screening or exclusionary approaches, because you may miss out on the benefits from the [transition] opportunity. Phoenix’s Khalil acknowledged the fine judgements facing asset owners in driving impact through stewardship.

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List of Clean 200 companies captures the green transition in full flight

Corporate Knights

Ltd Industrials South Korea 95 Industria de Diseno Textil SA Consumer Discretionary Spain 96 Acciona SA Utilities Spain 97 Trane Technologies PLC Industrials Ireland 98 Brambles Ltd Industrials Australia 99 Giant Manufacturing Co Ltd Consumer Discretionary Taiwan 100 Air Liquide S.A. The Clean200 uses negative screens.