ESG Today

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

This week in ESG news: EU lawmakers agree to regulate ESG ratings providers; Brookfield raises $10 billion for climate transition fund, on track for largest ever; EU proposes new 2040 climate goal; Deloitte, Informatica, Workiva partner on ESG data and reporting; HSBC, Google launch climate tech finance partnership; GRI launches sustainability reporting (..)

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As Greta Thunberg so pithily observed at #DigitalDavos, instead of corporate blather about " hypothetical targets and net-zero loopholes ," we need every cent going in a new direction as we crawl out of the pandemic economic crisis. First, asking for company ESG data is entry-level stuff in 2021. Beyond data. That’s excellent progress.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Index providers MSCI, FTSE Russell and S&P Dow Jones Indices (DJI) have refuted claims they have allowed ESG-labelled investments to be directed toward firms linked to Myanmar’s military regime.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 12, 2022

is ending the final quarter of the year with a flurry of awards and recognition for the company’s work on sustainability and ESG excellence. The global power technology leader, for example, recently saw its ESG Rating from MSCI upgraded from AA a year ago to AAA last month, the highest rating possible. DESCRIPTION: Cummins Inc.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Last updated on September 11, 2023 Forward-looking organizations are diving into environmental, social and governance ( ESG ) and sustainability, which can feel like ESG alphabet soup, a seemingly never-ending list of acronyms for varying ESG concepts, frameworks, rating agencies, regulations and regulatory bodies.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Morningstar excludes many types of ESG funds, including those employing exclusions and integrations, meaning its totals fall well short of the US$35.3 A 2022 PwC report noted that investors globally are expected to increase their ESG-related assets under management across mandates, mutual funds and private markets to US$33.9

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ESG Today

MAY 11, 2023

Despite the improvements in disclosure and climate pledges, however, the study found that direct emissions from the companies have not declined this year, and are on track to significantly exceed those needed to achieve the global goal to limit temperature increase to 1.5°C. Click here to access the MSCI report.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

We have now ingested more than 900 sources of ESG data. Our 15 years of work have produced a database of 600 million pieces of ESG data on more than 50,000 entities. This data set supports our mission to use consensus ratings of company ESG performance as a lever to improve corporate sustainability.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

DESCRIPTION: As we enter 2021, environmental, social and governance (ESG) continues to be a top priority for boards and management teams. Karen Snow , Senior Vice President and Head of East Coast Listings and Capital Services at Nasdaq, interviews veteran board member Betsy Atkins to get her insights on how to operationalize ESG.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

[Partner Content] We’re all on a climate journey, figuring out our best next steps, and MSCI has listened to clients’ needs. This means you now have a baseline from which you can work, outwards and onwards, to shape the direction of your climate journey. The post MSCI Total Portfolio Footprinting appeared first on ESG Investor.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

ESG in Action A new approach to environmental, social and governance (ESG) research could ease investors’ frustrations with sourcing and evaluating the data required for objective credit analysis. But their frustrations may be about to ease, thanks to a new approach to ESG research.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 24, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Companies in all industries face growing pressure to implement credible strategies for addressing environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. ESG-focused investors have become an increasingly influential force for change that most companies can no longer ignore. What is a Proxy Statement?

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 16, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including MSCI, Clearstream, Proxymity, Malk Partners, Integrum ESG, CGI, and Arvani. . MSCI aims to help institutional investors understand those risks on the portfolio level.” .

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Chris Hall

MARCH 8, 2024

Progress towards gender equality started from a low base, and more needs to be done to accelerate the pace of progress. “Things are slowly moving in the right direction,” Megan Le, Senior Analyst at GIB Asset Management, told ESG Investor. The post Corporates Inch Towards Gender Equity on Boards appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

JULY 21, 2023

The lack of taxonomy-alignment reporting is likely due to the “incomplete nature of the EU taxonomy and the high bar set to determine sustainable activities”, Rumi Mahmood, Head of ESG Fund Research at MSCI ESG Research and lead author of the report, told ESG Investor. “The main challenge lies in the lack of underlying company reporting.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 20, 2023

Invesco , a multinational investment management firm, has launched a global high yield ESG ETF, the Invesco Global High Yield Corporate Bond ESG UCITS ETF. The NPV ESG will target US$1.5

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including MSCI, Tumelo, DSD Lab, Exabel, YoujiVest, R3 and Hope for Justice. . The EBA ESG Pillar 3 disclosure standards are a mandatory requirement for banks with securities traded on a regulated market of any EU member state.

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ESG Today

JUNE 29, 2022

The platform provides annual scores for companies on each of the key categories, and the data is also used by information services providers such as Bloomberg, STOXX, Trucost, FTSE/Russell, MSCI and ISS ESG to power investment research, products, indices and ratings.

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James Militzer

MAY 19, 2022

The corporate ESG ratings from MSCI, the largest environmental, social and governance (ESG) rating company, provide an example of how easy it is for ESG information to mislead its intended recipients. Based on the name, one would expect ESG ratings to measure a company’s impact on society and our planet.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Investor appetite for a wider range of increasingly sophisticated ESG index derivatives is latent, according to participants at a virtual roundtable hosted by Eurex and ESG Investor. Based on parent indices, the first generation of ESG indices were created through application of negative or positive screening to the parent.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 10, 2023

Fuhr said that one of the research and consulting firm’s recent key findings was that between the end of 2022 through the end of June assets invested in ESG ETFs globally had increased by 17.6%. In August last year , total assets invested in ESG ETFs and ETPs decreased by 3.1%, before rebounding with a 10.6% trillion as of Q2 2023.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Reporting and disclosure on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues gained momentum during the last decade, reaching a crescendo in 2021. Companies within and across sectors are raising the ESG bar with greater transparency and a commensurate focus on underlying performance. The Changing ESG Landscape.

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Jon Hale

JULY 26, 2022

This is especially important in emerging markets, where many companies are exposed to higher levels of ESG risks that can become financially material. Those not using ESG in emerging-markets investing are not using all the available tools to help them understand a complex and risky set of investments. The Paris Agreement and the U.N.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Examples of climate characteristics to look for include a threshold for sustainable revenues, quantification of direct and indirect emissions (Scopes 1-3) and carbon intensity (how much carbon is emitted as a unit of sales). The post Look Beyond the Default Option appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 31, 2023

DWS whistle-blower Desiree Fixler has criticised European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) for not reaching out to her regarding their investigation into greenwashing in sustainable investment, while other consultation responses focused on ESG rating agencies, harmonisation, and definitional nuances of greenwashing.

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3BL Media

APRIL 6, 2022

Themed “Zero in on Future Value”, the digital report communicates CDL’s progress towards its material Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) goals and targets under the CDL Future Value 2030 Sustainability Blueprint. CDL’s ESG performance is widely recognised by leading global sustainability benchmarks.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 21, 2022

Themed “Zero in on Future Value”, the digital report communicates CDL’s progress towards its material Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) goals and targets under the CDL Future Value 2030 Sustainability Blueprint. CDL’s ESG performance is widely recognised by leading global sustainability benchmarks.

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Jon Hale

JUNE 24, 2022

End of Week Notes Value-oriented ESG funds do exist. The widely used models are not ESG-only, but they have included significant allocations to iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF ( ESGU ) and iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF ( ESGE ). In fact, most ESG equity funds skew stylistically toward growth.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Sustainable Trading, Impact Cubed, BME, ClimateTrade, MSCI, GeoQuant, ELEVATE Insig AI, and Higg.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

ESG investing has had to overcome numerous challenges, ranging from investor caution to multiple cases of greenwashing. years of ‘progress’ for the S&P 500 and three years for the MSCI EM. The post Inflation may Cause Illusion of CO2 Cuts, Investors Warned appeared first on ESG Investor. All without lifting a finger.”.

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Chris Hall

MAY 20, 2022

Rows over ratings and executive pay reflect how far ESG integration has yet to run. If you ran the world’s largest manufacturer of electric vehicles and found yourself dumped out of a leading ESG index in favour of one of the world’s largest polluters , you might feel a bit miffed.

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Just Capital

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

There are multiple reasons analysts have cited for this, primarily around growth and strategic direction. However, several are tied to the decline of Meta’s standing over the last couple of years within the ESG (environmental, social, governance) space, including in our own Rankings of America’s Most JUST Companies.

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ESG Today

JULY 18, 2022

In addition to its high-conviction strategy, the fund will follows the MSCI World Climate Change Index, a dedicated climate transition index, as its benchmark, rather than a standard index, enabling assessment of both carbon footprint and measure performance.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 17, 2023

Investors, regulators, and politicians have directed their criticism at a sector they view to be in certain cases overly virtuous, ineffective, and inherently subjective. With ESG facing such a retaliation, questions have arisen as to the merits of focusing on sustainable investing. trillion (US$4.25 trillion) per year.

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Carlos Sanchez

APRIL 28, 2021

ESG ratings have become a common instrument to measure companies’ performance. Firms achieving high ESG ratings attract investors, lower their cost of capital and attract talent. In this article you will learn about companies’ shift in purpose , what are and hot to improve ESG ratings and the future of ESG.

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Jon Hale

APRIL 22, 2022

Physical climate risk is about how much companies are exposed to the direct risks of more-frequent extreme weather events and of the long-term chronic effects of global warming. ESG funds take a broader climate-conscious perspective while also considering other ESG factors, many of which are related to climate change anyway.

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Stanford Social Innovation

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

According to CNBC , most money managers who use ESG (environmental, social, governance) factors in their investment analysis have focused on the E, or climate change, as their leading criteria for their decisions. Rating agencies like Moody’s and S&P view ESG almost exclusively through the lens of materiality (i.e.

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