Environmental Finance

JUNE 18, 2025

Carrefour raises €650m from first SLB under new framework 18 June 2025 French supermarket chain Carrefour has raised €650 million ($750 million) from the first sustainability-linked bond (SLB) it has issued under its updated and expanded framework.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

ESG-related assets under management are projected to exceed US$50 trillion in 2025, reflecting the growing demand for sustainable investments. By investing in companies with nature-positive strategies, asset managers can hedge against biodiversity risks while generating returns aligned with sustainability goals.

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Environmental Finance

JUNE 18, 2025

Carrefour raises €650m from first SLB under new framework 18 June 2025 French supermarket chain Carrefour has raised €650 million ($750 million) from the first sustainability-linked bond (SLB) it has issued under its updated and expanded framework.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

While these are welcome steps in the right direction — given the recent backtracking among US asset managers on prior climate commitments — there are significant questions about how these companies can deliver risk mitigation results for their clients when stewardship teams are split.

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3BL Media

MARCH 25, 2022

The evolving climate drives physical risks—damaged or stranded assets and business-interruption costs from severe weather events. Climate Value at Risk (CVaR)* is the economic value of physical and transition risks plus technological opportunities—one way of measuring the financial impact of climate change.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 2, 2024

” Julie Gorte, Senior Vice President for Sustainable Investing at Impax Asset Management, advises asset owners to consider the upsides of this challenging and complex transition. Risk of stranded assets Many major asset owners and managers have vociferously supported the treaty.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The firm also said both the climate global bonds and global green bonds strategies incorporate “various sustainable investment elements from Robeco’s SI toolbox”.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Research predicts new demands on asset managers, as clients’ sustainable investment priorities mature. Institutional and intermediary clients’ sustainable investment demands are growing increasingly sophisticated, requiring managers to reappraise their skills and budget levels. A long way to go”.

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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 Clearly much more needs to be done to pivot towards more sustainable investment and lending practices.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This week’s blog marks the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by noting five of the changes it has wrought to sustainable investing. A selection of this week’s major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 2, 2022

Asset managers are meanwhile showing “mixed progress” in their implementation of the Guidelines, though most asset managers recognise the relevance and urgency of environmental risk, and have put in place frameworks, governance arrangements, and policies to oversee this risk.

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Richard Matthews

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

A large and growing share of that investment capitol is going towards impact investments. In an interview with Private Equity International (PEI), Tania Carnegie, the Global Private Equity and Asset Management Leader for KPMG Impact, said she is confident about the future of impact investing.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 3, 2024

Dr Tom Gosling, Executive Fellow at London Business School, has argued that some asset managers are effectively pulling their punches on net zero, holding off on implementing their collective and individual commitments, awaiting stronger policy direction from politicians. Lee suggests not. “In

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Just Capital

JUNE 2, 2022

It’s like, “OK, companies, are you going to have stranded assets in the future? The asset you say is going to be worth something in 40 years, if it’s underwater in 10 because of increased flooding, then it’s not worth anything to us.” It’s data that should go into analysis. So what’s the issue? I don’t know.

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Chris Hall

MAY 22, 2024

“The sector is responsible for a big portion of the world’s methane emissions, and the technology already exists to avoid these,” explains Aeisha Mastagni , Senior Portfolio Manager in CalSTRS’ Sustainable Investment and Stewardship Strategies Team. It’s also a sellable GHG product for oil and gas firms.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 25, 2022

Only if engagement and voting don’t work would there be a need to divest, given the risk of stranded assets on the balance sheet, she noted. . Luke Ellis, CEO of Man Group, observed that too often engagement encourages companies to sell parts of their assets that are considered “bad from an ESG viewpoint”. Data tools .

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Sense and Sustainability

JANUARY 12, 2022

A sister of responsible investment is Impact Investing , which is a more proactive approach in investing with the ‘ intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact alongside financial return.’ Differences in Interpretation The question of responsible investing is defined differently across cultures.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 16, 2022

trillion annually, has attracted just US$13 billion in sustainable investment during the past decade. This explainer looks at the calls for a ‘sustainable blue economy’ and the role investors can play. The ocean economy, estimated to be worth US$2.5 What is the scale of the problem?

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

Increasing gas infrastructure must be avoided to avert dangerous climate impacts and stranded assets.”. By including gas, the EU is “giving the false impression that gas is ‘green’, which might lead to the wrong investment decisions” and potentially “delay the large-scale investments we need into renewables”, says Diamantopoulou.

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Chris Hall

MAY 11, 2022

Policy reform, best practice and legal judgments are redefining the relationship between fiduciary duty and sustainable investment. In late April, the UK High Court ruled that charity trustees can consider climate change factors when making decisions over their investments, even if it means making lower returns.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Warwick Thompson says it is vital to reduce reliance on fossil fuels to minimise the risk of stranded assets. “The government needs to ensure the right policy landscape and incentives are in place in the economy for private finance to flow to the right areas, and away from the continued expansion of fossil fuel production,” he says.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

Some companies will start acting and some won’t; there’s more risk of stranded assets.” What role should investors play? Where there’s a challenge (fulfilling the IMO’s 2023 decarbonisation strategy), there’s opportunity (investing in solutions that will enable the sector to achieve net zero)

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Mixed picture Do climate-related disclosures provide investors with the decision-useful information they need as they seek to reduce portfolios emissions while orientating capital to climate-positive investments? This has echoes of the issue of stranded assets arising from decarbonisation of the energy supply over the past decade or so.”

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2023

With nature more broadly, there are further layers of complexity,” said Eric Nietsch, Head of Sustainable Investing, Asia, Manulife Investment Management. For investors and companies with assets within those key biodiversity areas, this raises the issue of stranded assets.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 20, 2022

C or below will leave a substantial amount of fossil fuels unburned and could strand considerable fossil fuel infrastructure. Depending on its availability, CCS could allow fossil fuels to be used longer, reducing stranded assets.”. What is carbon capture and storage?

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Richard Matthews

APRIL 20, 2022

Sustainable capitalism also invites efforts to reinforce sustainability as a fiduciary issue, create advisory services for sustainable asset management, expand the range and depth of sustainable investment products; reconsider the appropriate definition for growth beyond GDP and integrate sustainability into business education at all levels.

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Jon Hale

AUGUST 26, 2022

To the contrary, investors, individual and institutional, large and small, are broadly interested in sustainable investing, a range of investment approaches that use ESG information. Surveys show anywhere from half to 85% of investors indicating interest , and the percentage is consistently higher for those under 50.

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Chris Hall

MAY 4, 2022

James Alexander, CEO of the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF), says the TPT’s proposed scope should be extended beyond large listed companies to include “large comparable private companies and unlisted firms because, realistically, these firms have the same level of impact”. .

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Chris Hall

MARCH 29, 2022

Heidi Welsh, Executive Director at the Sustainable Investments Institute, which co-authored the Proxy Preview report, said the combination of stronger support for ESG-related votes at last year’s AGMs and the likelihood of fewer omissions this year may lead to an increased number of resolution withdrawals. .

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