Corporate Knights

MARCH 8, 2023

As of May 2022, the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative (an international group of asset managers committed to net-zero) had grown to 273 investors who collectively manage US$61.3 found that 90% of limited partners factor ESG into their investment decisions, and 77% use it as a criterion in selecting general partners.

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ESG Today

APRIL 10, 2023

Suzanne DiBianca, EVP & Chief Impact Officer of ESG and Sustainability at Salesforce, said: “For Salesforce, incorporating nature into our decision-making is not only about managing risks and costs, but also about value creation, innovation, and collaboration.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Iberdrola has set goals to achieve carbon neutrality in its power generation plants by 2030, and to reach net zero across its full value chain by 2040, and to increase the presence of women in relevant positions to 35 % by 2030. The transaction also enhances our commitment to our ESG goals.”

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In the wake of COVID-19, when governments will provide massive stimulus funding to restart economies, it’s more important than ever to consider the long-term value creation of urban infrastructure investments. There is an urgent, global need for building urban resilience to heat and, as usual, business has a key role to play.

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Sustainability Matters

JANUARY 16, 2024

Cundall has created a glossary of the decarbonisation and sustainability terms most commonly used in finance, property, design and construction in an attempt to demystify the language around net zero and ESG requirements in the urban environment. This is a new language for business and for policymakers.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2024

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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3BL Media

JUNE 1, 2022

The World Economic Forum’s Measuring Stakeholder Capitalism: Towards Common Metrics and Consistent Reporting of Sustainable Value Creation , launched in 2020, enabled businesses to track their contributions towards the SDGs on a consistent basis. This calls for greater attention to how the data underlying ESG ratings is generated.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

To qualify for the ranking, banks must have signed up to the UN’s Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), which means they commit to achieving net-zero lending and investment portfolios by 2050. All three firms claim they have adopted sustainability and supporting the net-zero transition as key objectives. .

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 26, 2022

“This has led to regulatory pressure and voluntary commitments to net zero. Consequently, more investors are taking note of both the downside risk protection and upside value creation of nature-based solutions that are being elevated on a global scale. Prime ingredients for value creation.”.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 28, 2024

The Investor Initiative on Human Rights Data will target big data and proxy houses to support just transition to a nature-positive and net-zero world.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2024

With each rating and improvement cycle, they build resilience, enhance value creation, and drive positive impacts for the planet and society. The rating covers 21 sustainability criteria that are grouped into four themes based on international standards: Environment, Labor & Human Rights, Ethics, and Sustainable Procurement.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Alignment through governance allows us to properly plan to mitigate risks and maximize opportunities for value creation for all of our stakeholders. Likewise, with increasing climate events around the world, we are actively managing our business operations toward net zero carbon, achieving carbon neutrality for the first time in 2022.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The collaboration comes as financial firms face increasing pressure from regulators and other stakeholders to address their climate impacts, and to begin to put their net zero plans into action.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

It’s part of our commitment to significantly expand cleaner energy and achieve net-zero carbon emissions from electricity generation by 2050.”. The 2050 net-zero goals also include Scope 2 and certain Scope 3 emissions.

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ESG Today

JULY 3, 2023

We are particularly looking forward to collaborating with Anthesis given its convening power to drive convergence on critical ESG issues in private markets, such as their market-leading work on decarbonization and Net Zero guidance for private equity.”

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ESG Today

JULY 26, 2023

1 is built around the idea that there is incredible investment opportunity in solving large-scale problems, and our thematic ETFs are constructed around that value creation principle. Chris James, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Engine No. 1, said: “Engine No. The Transform ETF platform manages more than $600 million in U.S.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Among companies, Impact Valuation as an approach to valuing a company’s impact on society has hit an inflexion point. The work of the Value Balancing Alliance and Harvard’s newly formed International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (IFVI) aim at measuring companies’ value creation.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 12, 2024

The investment community may have limited control over net zero targets, but it can enable better outcomes, says London Business School Executive Fellow Tom Gosling. He suggested using the UN-Convened Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) guidelines as guidance for the way they engage with asset managers as a good starting point.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 7, 2021

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. Conclusions.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

AkademikerPension was recently given a gold award, alongside eight other finance sector firms, in an assessment of net zero action by the Imperial College Business School. The coalition aimed to collectively engage on employees’ right to unionise and bargain on wages and working conditions. trillion in market capitalisation.

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Sphera

APRIL 12, 2022

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.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

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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3BL Media

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In fact, aligning the core business and value creation to ESG performance is how a number of tech firms are seeking to stand out from the crowd. The company is aiming to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and reach net-zero emissions by 2040. The company reported that $3.5

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 6, 2022

’s Net-zero Asset Owner Alliance membership, a group of institutional investors pledging an active role in the climate transition, has grown to 74 members and totaled $10.6 At last year’s COP26 climate conference, the U.K. Meanwhile, the U.N.’s trillion in assets under management (AUM).

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Sustainable Round Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Meanwhile, sustainability professionals are helping thousands of communities and enterprises chart paths to Net Zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions wherein countries, communities and enterprises commit to removing as much carbon from the atmosphere as they place into it. Fortunately, Sustainability Roundtable, Inc. (SR

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Sustainable Round Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Meanwhile, sustainability professionals are helping thousands of communities and enterprises chart paths to Net Zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions wherein countries, communities and enterprises commit to removing as much carbon from the atmosphere as they place into it. Fortunately, Sustainability Roundtable, Inc. (SR

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Sphera

APRIL 25, 2022

In their climate pledges, the companies ’ net - zero targets commit to only a 40% reduction in aggregated emissions, not 100% , as suggested by the term “net zero”. medium- and long-term climate targets and the development of an overall net - zero target. A business strategy is about value creation.

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Sense and Sustainability

MAY 26, 2021

This is a watershed moment for the oil and gas industry and leading investors in the race to transition to a net zero energy system. degrees Celsius” and “supporting investing aligned with net zero emissions by 2050 or sooner.” The article was authored by Fred Krupp and originally appeared here.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

s Net-zero Asset Owner Alliance membership, a group of institutional investors pledging an active role in the climate transition, has grown to 74 members and totaled $10.6 At last year’s COP26 climate conference, the U.K. Meanwhile, the U.N.'s trillion in assets under management (AUM).

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Chris Hall

MARCH 4, 2024

The watchdog will be seeking views from stakeholders on whether the code is being used by signatories to drive better stewardship outcomes, including the extent to which it supports long-term value creation through appropriate engagements, creates reporting burdens on issuers or signatories, and has led to any unintended consequences, such as short-termism (..)

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Chris Hall

APRIL 28, 2023

“When I attended COP26 (Glasgow) in 2021, the momentum had increased, and I could see that the UN’s Race to Zero was gaining traction.” The Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) was formed at COP25, with the Net Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA), Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) and umbrella group GFANZ all formed during COP26.

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Sphera

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

EHS software is being shaped by the need to facilitate zero-incident rates and broaden worker health management, while also addressing the wider ESG landscape, including the increasing need to manage and report on a company’s net-zero emissions performance.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2022

The Clean Growth Fund connects investors with the innovators who will give us the tools to make the step change necessary to get to net zero,” said George Graham, Director of the South Yorkshire Pensions Authority.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 9, 2024

Responsible investment is consistent with long-term enlightened value creation. The Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance has called on asset managers and investee companies to ensure their lobbying activities are consistent with their public commitments, particularly as it relates to climate change.

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Just Capital

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

But what if CEO and senior executive pay was tied more explicitly to total stakeholder value creation? On environmental and climate issues, it focuses intensively on the environmental impact of its products, with a goal to create products with Net-Zero carbon impact by 2030.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Working in the firm’s Total Fund Management’s Investment Division, Murray will take a leadership role in supporting Ontario Teachers’ long-term plan to create a lasting, positive and sustainable impact while creating value for members.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

The value-creation opportunity is huge. Accelerating the build-out of hydrogen infrastructure will radically improve national and corporate abilities to meet net zero and decarbonisation targets. The Fund will serve as a catalyst for both the financing and building of global hydrogen infrastructure projects.

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