Chris Hall

APRIL 26, 2024

Last year, its pension plan was the first scheme to be fined by the UK’s The Pensions Regulator (TPR) for failing to report on trustees’ management and governance of climate-related risks and opportunities. million last year, also faces criticism for comments in which he blamed the public for Exxon’s lack of climate ambition.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 27, 2023

A selection of this week’s major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces.  – Asset managers are hiring ESG and sustainability staff, you won’t be surprised to learn, and they’re almost certainly not alone. Across the sustainable investment landscape, resources, patience and credibility are all being stretched.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 1, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including S&P DJI, Impact Cubed, Apex, Sweep, K2 Integrity, RepRisk, ICE, and Confluence. . Index provider S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) has launched the iBoxx EUR Corporates Net Zero 2050 Paris-Aligned ESG Index.

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Just Capital

JANUARY 12, 2024

Our 2023 Views on Business Report echoes this. News & Global Report , Americans feel that good, honest, solutions-oriented leaders are in short supply, and 86% are “largely disappointed” by leaders in society. and Time to license their work, Bloomberg News reports. According to a recent Harris Poll with U.S.

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Just Capital

MARCH 1, 2024

With the pushback on ESG and ‘woke’ companies now maturing, we think there is room in America today for a more objective, data-driven framework that supports values-led business leadership, drives positive societal change and connects directly to business strategy. ” Must Reads There’s pushback against the ESG pushback.

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Chris Hall

JULY 28, 2023

A selection of this week’s major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces. Sticking point – The G20 failed to agree on the phasing down of fossil fuels, leaving climate scientists and environmental campaigners frustrated amid weeks of extreme weather events around the globe demonstrating the escalating climate crisis.

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Chris Hall

MAY 19, 2022

Gordon Tveito-Duncan, Head of ESG Technology at GaiaLens, outlines the challenges for asset owners and managers in assessing their exposures and options. This work demands forensic, real-time data collection, analysis and scoring against specific ESG criteria. ESG winners and losers. To divest or not to divest?

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Chris Hall

JUNE 17, 2022

The release of Net Zero Tracker’s latest stocktake report reminded countries, companies and cities of the gap between announcing a net zero commitment and having a credible plan to reduce emissions. The post ICYMI, the Path to Net Zero is Getting Steeper appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Industry experts have stressed the need for simplicity and clarity around Europe’s ESG fund labelling, as the European Commission’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) consultation deadline looms. Oil and gas giants including BP, ENI and TotalEnergies are expected to be excluded under the SRI label new guidelines.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The agreement is part of Aflac's overall campaign commemorating National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and National Sickle Cell Awareness Month, both of which occur in September. News and World Report on September 28 from 1:00 to 2:00 pm. Aflac is sponsoring the Miles for Miracles campaign Sept. million. .

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Chris Hall

MAY 13, 2022

This truth was reflected across the week’s news cycle, confirming the need for further action on climate-related disclosures. The UK’s new Transition Plan Taskforce hit the ground running with a call for evidence to inform its mandate to draft guidelines for transition disclosures.

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Chris Hall

JULY 19, 2023

A 2020 report published by Aon noted that natural disasters caused US$3 trillion in economic damages between 2009-2019, costing insurers US$845 billion – well above levels seen a decade prior. One such proposal filed by As You Sow asked Chubb to publish a report disclosing 1.5°C-aligned It received 28.9%

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Just Capital

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It seemed that in 2020, CEO support for supplier diversity was so strong, but we’re not hearing about the topic as much in news headlines now. In fact, in our 2022 report , 86% of Americans agree that companies “often hide behind public declarations of support for stakeholders but don’t walk the walk.”

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Chris Hall

MARCH 24, 2023

Data availability, limited staff knowledge and resources, and a lack of standardisation around how to measure the just transition, are all reported as barriers to tackling this major problem. The good news is that there are businesses who are already doing this. The post A People’s Net Zero Transition appeared first on ESG Investor.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

June 22 marked the publication of the fifth annual GreenBiz 30 Under 30 , our report celebrating rising young professionals in the field of corporate sustainability. . We’ve been able to shift many environmental projects’ approaches to the home-scale, like home gardens, yard tree plantings and home recycling campaigns. .

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Chris Hall

JUNE 15, 2023

Biodiversity loss was ranked as the third most severe threat humanity will face in the next 10 years in the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2022. The post Hope Remains for Ambitious Nature Restoration Law appeared first on ESG Investor.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The latter commitment is one touted by members of The Climate Pledge, orchestrated by Amazon and Global Optimism, although PepsiCo isn’t a member of that campaign as of this writing. Andrew: You should watch for transparency, consistency and regularity in our reporting. We just issued our first [TCFD] report.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The announcements follow a long campaign by the European Commission and a number of pressure groups and NGOs to end investment arbitration in intra-EU settings. The post Exiting the Energy Charter Treaty appeared first on ESG Investor. Background to the withdrawals. 2] Slovak Republic v. Achmea B.V.,

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This type of subsidy is in the news across Europe as governments are under pressure to respond to high wholesale gas prices, fearing a ‘cost of living’ crisis for millions. Recent UN Development Programme (UNDP) research, published as part of its ‘ Don’t Choose Extinction ’ campaign, calls for “a progressive and gradual response” to reforms.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

In some good news, building on commitments made by Scotland and Wallonia (Belgium) and a group of philanthropies during COP26, Denmark announced in September 2022 a pledge of 100 million Danish Krone (approximately US$13 million) for loss and damage. billion to US$28.6 degrees C.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

See below for the highlights of the past week, and get all your ESG news at ESG Today: Sustainability Goals, Initiatives and Achievements. See below for the highlights of the past week, and get all your ESG news at ESG Today: Sustainability Goals, Initiatives and Achievements. ESG Reporting & Disclosure.

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Just Capital

APRIL 1, 2022

As the 2022 proxy voting season heats up – a record 529 shareholder resolutions have been filed on ESG issues to-date according to a recent report – CEOs and boards will be under increasing pressure to up their game on stakeholder value creation. One last point: Not all activist investors are the same.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The culmination of many years of effort and insight from campaigns like the Journey for Justice resulted in funds being allocated to EJ through key parts of infrastructure and climate legislation signed into law by the Biden Administration. Environmental Justice News and Challenges. Jackson, Mississippi drinking water crisis.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Automative industry’s links to oil and gas lobbying come under scrutiny, as misleading reports about EVs risk slowing down the low-carbon transition. The director of transport decarbonisation at the UK Department for Transport told the Committee that there was a “concerted campaign of misinformation” about EVs.

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3BL Media

JULY 27, 2023

I don’t want to start our conference on a down note, but a recent report from the WWF tells us that there has been a 69% average decline in wildlife populations since 1970. And the reason we do the work remains unchanged: Nature needs our help, and today, nature needs our help more than ever before. I have to clarify that the U.S.

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Chris Hall

JULY 14, 2023

A selection of this week’s major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces. The news certainly brought climate-related risks for our oceans to the fore, yet the International Maritime Organization missed the boat to set a credible path to net zero for the shipping sector. Watchman lived a life many can only dream of.

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Just Capital

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Despite a lackluster earnings report yesterday, the world’s largest company has so far avoided layoffs. Apple conducts annual pay equity analyses by gender and race and ethnicity and reports that it has achieved 1:1 pay equity for all of its workers since 2017. in raises over the next 18 months.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2023

Saskia Kort-Chick, Director of ESG Research and Engagement at AllianceBernstein, says there are altruistic and self-interested reasons why investors should better understand modern slavery risks. There’s a couple of reasons why we think that modern slavery has the potential to be a key priority when it comes to ESG integration.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

US fund managers are caught between a fierce anti-ESG campaign by Republicans and mounting efforts to curb greenwashing, explains John Kostyack, Adviser to Sierra Club’s Fossil-Free Finance campaign. ESG was even dropped altogether from the regulator’s examination priorities for 2024 , to the surprise of many.

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Jon Hale

OCTOBER 28, 2022

End of Week Notes And a must-read on how CRT is morphing into anti-ESG/”woke” capitalism To say this year has been a challenging one for sustainable funds may be an understatement. The second has to do with the effects of the attacks on ESG coming from the political Right. The growth of sustainable funds’ assets in the U.S.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 11, 2023

A selection of this week’s major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces. This is just one element of a global campaign of influence-peddling, he added. Florida has also been at the forefront of political action against the finance sector offering ESG-themed investment products and services.

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Just Capital

MARCH 15, 2023

Especially, as our recent focus groups show , when it comes to how the public thinks about ESG, “woke-ness,” and corporations’ role in society. Opposition to laws prohibiting state pension funds from considering ESG factors, for example, was strong – including among the two groups of Republicans we spoke to.

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Just Capital

AUGUST 26, 2022

It’s a story that captures almost every aspect of the business zeitgeist in America today – workers’ quest for fair pay, good jobs, and better conditions; unions; community support and survival; COVID; health and safety; climate change; ESG; shareholder activism; the corporate profit imperative; and, of course (inevitably), politics.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

From China’s stand to Walmart’s wish list: A Climate Week news cheat sheet. As with virtually all gatherings of the climate community during the COVID age, this year’s Climate Week was convened as an online event — one hosted from more than 20 countries across myriad time zones rather than its usual host city of New York. .

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Sustainability Update

MARCH 8, 2023

The word is now an important part of the political and cultural conversation in such states as Florida, where it is becoming a vigorous political campaign cry. Such as (one example) as the importance of ESG issues to asset managers and corporate leadership. And Anti-Woke! Where did the expression “woke” come from? and in Europe.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

All combined, this year’s cohort reports to offices in 12 nations across six continents, including Brazil, Canada, China, India, Lithuania, New Zealand and Rwanda. In the United States, they hail from 15 cities, from Albuquerque, New Mexico to New York City — and several emigrated to the U.S. in childhood. Holly Secon.

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Just Capital

OCTOBER 27, 2023

One thing to note is that I think he either fundamentally misunderstands or misrepresents ESG and sustainability as being part of “a mass demoralization campaign” that is “anti-technology and anti-life.” JUST IN THE NEWS JUST Capital publishes our latest review of quarterly stakeholder performance. We appreciate your support!

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