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KKR 2021 Sustainability Report: Driving Value Creation

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DESCRIPTION: OUR APPROACH When we are invested in a company, we leverage our investment model and our focus on operational and strategic improvements to drive value creation on ESG issues across our investments, where relevant. Q: How do you think about ESG performance as opportunity for value creation? SOURCE: KKR.

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Which banks are financing the clean energy transition?

Corporate Knights

The 2022 Sustainable Banking Revenues Ranking shows global bankers are off to a slow start, but over time it will help guide consistency of reporting and provide an ongoing window into bankers’ progress in meeting the world’s Paris Agreement commitments. . billion, followed by New York City–based Citi at US $2.18

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Analyzing Carbon Offset Markets’ role in our journey to a net-zero world

Carlos Sanchez

While some recognise carbon offsets markets as key for us to achieve net-zero emissions world by 2050 by funnelling cash into cost-effective projects, others believe credits are a dangerous distraction that allows polluters to pay their way out of the problem. Introduction. 1 – 1.5ºC emission pathway (Source McKinsey & Co).

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Surfing the Sustainability Wave

Chris Hall

There’s also been additional releases from our investment team around semi-annual performance , and my team provides regular updates on our net zero strategy alignment.” CalSTRS has made a pledge to move its entire portfolio to net zero by 2050 or sooner, in line with climate science and the Paris Agreement.

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From Ambition to Delivery

Chris Hall

The core question is: what must policymakers, corporates and investors do to make good on last year’s pledges and commitments to keep the world on track for net zero by 2050? More tangible definitions and frameworks around carbon pricing are a pre-requisite step, albeit an insufficient one, toward achieving net zero, panellists agreed.

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4 ESG trends to watch in 2022

Carlos Sanchez

Besides, Danone’s CEO stepped down after investors blamed him for failing to balance shareholder value creation and sustainability. The recently published Integrated Thinking Principles Prototype presents a philosophy focused on value creation overtime for the enterprise and its key stakeholders.

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How Green Methanol Can Help Decarbonize the Chemical Industry

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Decarbonization progress has not kept pace to achieve targets set by the 2015 Paris Agreement, and last November, at COP26 in Glasgow, nations pledged to adjust their CO2 emissions targets by 2030 in an effort to realign with the goal of net zero by 2050. Chemical Industry Climate Commitments and the Roadmap to Net Zero.