B the Change

JULY 31, 2022

6 Companies That Provide Innovative Benefits, Training, and Workplace Opportunities The Certified B Corporations on the 2022 Best for the World for workers list are crafting business environments where employees have opportunities to build skills, help shape company decisions, and access supports that benefit their well-being.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Robeco, Morgan Stanley IM, GMPF, Impax AM, Orchard Street IM and Nuveen. . Dutch asset manager Robeco has launched the RobecoSAM Biodiversity Equities fund.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

After years of behind-the-scenes development, negotiation, and (no doubt intense) industry lobbying, they lay out a two-step definition of a fossil fuel subsidy, then list six exemption criteria that might qualify a future fossil fuel project for federal largesse. increase in 2021, the Canadian Climate Institute reported in February).

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Chris Hall

JUNE 10, 2022

The OECD predicts the ocean economy will grow at twice the rate of the mainstream economy in the current decade, largely fuelled by an undernourished population’s demand for protein. Consolidation may also help bolster the attractiveness of Oslo Bors, the Norwegian exchange on which many salmon farmers are listed.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Sustainability-related themes dominate active ownership efforts. Further, emissions across listed corporate bonds have decreased by 23% compared to 2016 levels, and real estate investment emissions have been cut by 57% compared to 2015 levels. billion) increase on investment returns, pushing overall investment value to €59 billion.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 16, 2022

Credible, scalable active ownership programmes require forward-looking technology investments, says Rickard Nilsson, Director of Strategy and Growth at Esgaia. With active ownership as a primary mechanism of impact , adherence to the strategy is bound to continue its climb over the years to come.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 30, 2023

Gallup data describes the phenomenon of ‘quiet quitting’, estimating that over half of the US workforce is engaged in this behaviour, with low employee engagement costing the global economy US$8.8

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3BL Media

MARCH 4, 2022

Governance may be listed last, but it should never be an afterthought for fixed-income investors. The ownership structure includes super-voting shares for the CEO and his father, the company’s largest shareholders, granting them control of the company. SOURCE: AllianceBernstein. Trust, but Verify.

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Chris Hall

MAY 6, 2022

This week the pension fund – which manages the retirement assets of current and former employees of the Church of England – revealed its latest Stewardship Report , in which it stated that it was a decade ahead of its target in achieving net zero carbon emissions across its investments.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Canadian pension fund to eschew “blanket divestment”, emphasising role as “active investor and influencer”. The Canada Pension Plan is a federally administered pension fund providing monthly retirement income to all employed Canadians, apart from those in Quebec, which operates a separate scheme. Whole economy transition.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2021

These returns to landowners are only a portion of the much bigger value of the restoration economy, which includes valuable ecosystem benefits such as flood risk prevention, water filtration, and tourism, which come with creation of forests. This again shows how an effective carbon market can unlock the potential of the restoration economy.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Financial organisations thus have a major role to play in the decarbonisation of the global economy, yet it is estimated that since the Paris Agreement in 2015, the 60 largest banks have instead invested $5.5 Financial institutions have a major role to play in decarbonising the economy toward net zero over the coming three decades.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Countries that are high emitters and heavily dependent on coal will be a focus of international attention in the coming months, not just to phase down coal but importantly to fund a just transition to green sources of energy and the necessary electricity infrastructure. The key was national ownership. billion from the U.K.,

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Serious doubts about the environmental stewardship credentials of three of the world’s largest asset management firms have been raised by academics at City Political Economy Research Centre (CITYPERC), part of City, University of London. Even the Big Three’s ESG funds are heavily invested in the carbon majors.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 23, 2023

Currently, 75% of focus list companies have made net zero commitments, and over 90% have some degree of board-level oversight of climate-related risks and opportunities. trillion across industries including oil and gas, aviation, mining, and consumer goods, among others. Released following a consultation, CA100+’s Benchmark 2.0 Benchmark 2.0

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

A session called Funding the New Energy Paradigm: Innovative Financing Mechanisms & Clever Capital Structures will be presented during the POWERGEN Leadership Summi t in Dallas, Texas on January 28, 2022. . – The challenges in pursuit of a green hydrogen economy. The technology in reality – examples. Power Ledger.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Driven by its mission to create a better future for its members, UK pension scheme Railpen’s active ownership approach embraces climate transition, biodiversity, worth of the workforce, modern slavery, sustainable financial markets and responsible technology. What, for example, does investing in the circular economy mean to us?

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Chris Hall

JULY 1, 2022

The manager’s Environmental and Social Management System (ESMS) drew on the Global Impact Investing Network’s (GIIN) IRIS+ framework to review credible agriculture-related listed measurable objectives and impacts, identifying those which best correlated with the sustainable ambitions of the Cibus. .

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Chris Hall

APRIL 21, 2023

The transformation of the global economy will take US $9.2 Today, the pension fund has evolved its approach to sustainability, integrating consideration of ESG factors through the lifecycle of the investment. C to prevent catastrophic climate change. trillion in annual average spending , US$3.5

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B the Change

AUGUST 27, 2022

All Around the Globe How the B Global Network Is Celebrating and Sharing Learnings from the 2022 Best for the World B Corps Across Regions The lists may have been announced in July, but the opportunity to learn from the Best for the World Certified B Corporations runs all year. And check out the full Best for the World 2022 lists here!

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Chris Hall

JULY 6, 2022

It is through good stewardship that corporate engagement can drive high carbon emitting companies to develop and implement a net zero transition plan, which will ultimately help to decarbonise the global economy,” says Stephanie Pfeifer, CEO at the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). .

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Stanford Social Innovation

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In that time, ESG integration has been enshrined in thousands of pension fund and asset manager ESG policies, while regulations such as the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) now require the practice of financial market participants. All of this is why the recent report “ Does ESG integration impact the real economy?

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Chris Hall

MARCH 9, 2022

Superannuation fund AustralianSuper has invested £290 million into the 53-acre net zero site, which will provide 3,000 homes, workspaces for up to 20,000 workers, and open spaces protecting wetlands and woodlands. These public-listed companies are involved in solutions including energy storage and smart metering,” he tells ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 7, 2022

As the climate crisis has worsened, pressure on publicly-listed companies to make net zero commitments and transition to low-carbon operations and products has intensified. C-aligned net zero targets, bringing along the wider economy to net zero, and demonstrating immediate climate action. . equity, and 19.3%

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

An internal team narrowed the list of submissions down to a short list of 50, then our panel of judges each submitted their top 30 picks, and we tallied the votes. Visit corporateknights.com in April 2024 to nominate any change agents under 30 that you think should be considered for next year’s list.

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Jon Hale

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Assets continued to move into sustainable funds. include sustainable funds in retirement plans. While most intentional sustainable funds combine this approach with others on our list, many traditional funds have incorporated ESG information in their risk-management process.

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Jon Hale

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

It is not a matter of politics or values, it is about asset managers fulfilling their fiduciary responsibility toward their clients, including pension plans and everyday fund investors. ESG as Product By contrast, ESG as product refers to ESG funds , which have multiplied in recent years and gathered trillions in assets globally.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

An internal team narrowed the list of submissions down to a shortlist of 60, then our panel of judges each submitted their top 30 picks, and we tallied the votes. Visit corporateknights.com in April 2023 to nominate any change agents under 30 that you think should be considered for next year’s list. Stephanie Willsey.

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Stanford Social Innovation

MARCH 8, 2022

It’s entwined not just around so-called creator economies, but macroeconomies and the rails they run on as well, through the work of global banks, software companies, media empires, and hundreds of thousands of developers. Even the NFT concept, which feels as if it erupted only last year, was first realized in 2014.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 3, 2022

The result: a power-packed list of companies whose products and services bring bold new ideas to the sustainability front – and raise hopes that we can win the climate war. In publishing this list, Corporate Knights makes no promises about their prospects, or their suitability for investment. Pioneering has always been long, hard work.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 1, 2021

While e-buses are still priced at a premium compared with their diesel-powered counterparts, data shows electric buses can have a lower total cost of ownership and are competitive with diesel buses when comparing lifetime costs over 12 years, offering better efficiency and lower maintenance costs due to simplified drivetrains.

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Stanford Social Innovation

MARCH 10, 2022

This reading list explores topics related to each session of the conference, including shifts in power, place-based social change, citizen/government collaboration, changes in philanthropy, and public interest technology. Building an American Ownership Society by Elwood M. Democratize the Economy by Felicia Wong, K.

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Stanford Social Innovation

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Economic inequality has given rise to calls for a new economy in which the fruits of economic activity and power are shared more equally and democratically. This reading list covers topics related to each panel, including global threats to democracy, workplace power, capitalism, civic engagement, and more. March 14, 2023 at 1:05 p.m.

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Caux Round Table

OCTOBER 9, 2023

What was Trump’s ownership worth in present dollars? The purpose of valuation is to facilitate and encourage transactions which produce wealth and increase satisfactions, to reduce risk of failure and imbalance between the parties to a transaction and to promote trust in society and the economy. In the U.S.,

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Foley & Hoag

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

List-Based Sanctions The U.S., EU, and UK all maintain lists of specific individuals and entities subject to comprehensive sanctions that typically involve the freezing of the person’s assets, as well as a prohibition on further business dealings with listed entities. If added to the SDN List, all U.S. While the U.S.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Our economy is not creating a livable society for most people. Regardless of one’s perspective on system change, there is an important underlying economic feature that is often overlooked: the structure and ownership of the enterprise. Conventional enterprises typically have a single class of ownership, delineated by shares.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

As I began identifying leaders to include on this third annual list, I was inspired by the introduction to " All We Can Save ," an essay and poem collection co-edited by marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (who you can find on this year’s list) and Katharine Wilkinson (who we recognized on the first Badass Women list in 2019). .

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