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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. SMEs Help Decarbonize Global Supply Chains.

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A Business Guide to Sustainable Finance

3BL Media

Another way companies reduce operational costs is through investing in a sustainable supply chain. This can lead to more stable and resilient supplier relationships, reducing the risks and costs associated with supply chain disruptions. These improvements can significantly reduce operational costs over time.

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Take Five: Immediately and Gradually

Chris Hall

Recent PRI-backed analysis suggests Bolsonaro’s re-election would dash hopes of ending deforestation by 2030, despite actions across the public and private sector to eliminate proceeds from supply chains. Engaged in impact – Two major surveys highlighted the drivers and practice of sustainable investing by asset owners.

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Sustainability trends 2023

Carlos Sanchez

Examples are the Swiss art 964 and the German supply chain act. Among investors, sustainable investing is evolving from negative screening toward engaging with companies. Figure 3: Calculated impacts of company A for the fiscal year 2019 (own operations and upstream supply chain). Thank you GRI! Source VBA.

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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. A good starting point, she suggested, is to recognise that every investment has positive and negative impacts. Understanding these nuances is important.

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ESG Investing Needs to Expand Its Definition of Materiality

Stanford Social Innovation

In its most simplified form, ESG investing is “negative screening”—not investing in companies with harmful practices or actively engaging company leadership to change those practices—whereas impact investing refers to investments made with the intention to create measurable positive impact alongside financial return.