Chris Hall

MARCH 11, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including NN Investment Partners, SDI AOP, ESG Book, ISS ESG, Likvidi, Alcumus. The Eurosystem central banks last year defined their common stance for applying climate-related sustainable investment principles.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 25, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Federated Hermes, SLM Partners, DIF, PGGM, MEAG and Future Planet Capital. . Global asset manager Federated Hermes has launched a Biodiversity Equity fund, with insights from the UK’s Natural History Museum.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2022

A key focus of the Earth Day Climate Action Summit is the role of regenerative agriculture in restoring the Earth. Investors are already beginning to support the shift to more sustainable farming, forestry and land use.

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Supply Chains Supply Chain Regenerative Net Zero 52

Chris Hall

JANUARY 19, 2024

Some are also identifying synergies with the natural capital investments they are making as part of their sustainable investment strategies. Manulife has sought to maximise the carbon sequestration impact of timberland investments by choosing to invest in forests with slightly lower overall productivity.

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3BL Media

JULY 13, 2022

Since June 2020, Olam has been included in the FTSE4Good Index Series, a global sustainable investment index series developed by FTSE Russell, following a rigorous assessment of Olam’s supply chain activities, impact on the environment and governance transparency.

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Chris Hall

MAY 13, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including LOIM, Pictet, AXA, Tikehau Capital, BNPP AM, Eurazeo, and Cibus Funds. . Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM) has partnered with the Alliance to End Plastic Waste to introduce a new circular plastic fund.

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Regenerative Waste Green Bonds Climate Change 52

Chris Hall

MAY 6, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including CDP, Loomis Sayles, UKSIF, Built by Nature, Arcadian AM, London Pensions Fund Authority and PLSA. Prior to joining, Stevenson was Head of Business Development at Neuron Advisers, a boutique quantitative alternative investment firm.

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We Mean Business Coalition

MAY 19, 2023

To cut emissions would require activities like stopping deforestation and using regenerative farming techniques while increasing removals means reforestation and wetland conservation, for example. To achieve this requires urgent, large-scale, and sustained investment. billion tons by 2030.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 8, 2024

Other frameworks, such as the Soil Carbon Initiative – a third-party regenerative agriculture commitment and verification programme – have also emerged in parallel. The firm has long engaged in sustainable investing, including through its Biodiversity Equity fund – albeit a public markets vehicle.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Investible projects NbS projects typically sequester carbon while simultaneously restoring or conserving land by using more regenerative agriculture or forestry techniques, or returning it to nature. Finding investible projects can be a challenge. We’re beginning to look at nature-positive opportunities in public equities.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 8, 2023

New guidance is also emerging to help investors set clear, measurable targets that assess the gender and climate-related impacts of their investments in tandem. billion in climate-related venture capital funding went to start-ups with at least one female founder, BCG said.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 24, 2024

China has made some progress on exploring methodology and application of GEP,” he said.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The study, by the First Sentier MUFG Sustainable Investment Institute, is an invaluable read for the stewardship professional, who may nevertheless sigh at the prospect of having to meet its nine criteria.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 17, 2023

In Senegal, the government, via the Senegalese Agency for Reforestation, has partnered with local farmers practising regenerative agriculture. After all, as Alison Loat, the managing director for sustainable investment and innovation at OPTrust puts it, “What’s at stake isn’t the future of the planet.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2024

To do this, farmers should be better incentivised to take up regenerative agriculture practices, such as those which reduce the use of fertilisers, pesticides and herbicides as well as farming back from rivers, fencing off watercourses to keep livestock out, and planting riparian woodlands.

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Climate Change Regenerative Sustainable Investment 59

Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Mediolanum, KBI Global Investors, Pictet Asset Management, Invesco, Nuveen, SWEN Capital Partners and SIS Ventures.

Climate Change 52

Climate Change Sustainable Investment Net Zero Banking 52

Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2022

Generating returns from regenerative agriculture is positive for the planet but entails a different risk profile for investors, says Paul McMahon, Managing Partner at SLM Partners. Paul McMahon, Managing Partner at SLM Partners, says: “We use investment capital to scale up more regenerative farming and forestry systems.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In fact, almost 85 percent of individual investors say they are interested in sustainable investing and more than three quarters believe they can use their investments to influence the extent of climate change. Another good option is Calvert Impact Capital’s Community Investment Notes.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Larry Fink, the CEO of the largest investment firm in the world, wrote in his 2022 letter to CEOs: “It’s been two years since I wrote that climate risk is investment risk. Sustainable investments have now reached $4 trillion. And in that short period, we have seen a tectonic shift of capital.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2022

The concept also encompasses restoring wilderness, building regenerative agricultural systems, using renewable materials, and shifting to renewable energy sources. The livestock industry clears forests, losing vital carbon sinks while monoculture crops degrade soil and destroy biodiversity.

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Waste Regenerative Development Net Zero 52

Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2024

Almost any issue you can think of under the banner of responsible and sustainable business is neither uniform nor universal. Complex phenomena Sustainable business is made up of complex phenomena. When we think about an ethical culture or regenerative supply chain, we are not seeking a single attribute.

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