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Canadian pension funds are starting to embrace the green transition

Corporate Knights

The amount of these pension funds’ actual investments labelled as “sustainable” rose to $276 billion in 2021, up from just $163 billion a year earlier. The dashboard shows that sustainable investments composed nearly 13% of the pension funds’ total assets of $2.2 trillion, versus just 7% of $2.1

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The biggest carbon losers

Corporate Knights

While some investments are neutral (deemed neither “clean” nor “dirty”), in many cases these companies are still investing most of their capital into assets that will either lock in further GHG emissions or become stranded assets as the energy transition takes shape. dollars) through 2030. Whereas just 2.7%

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Phoenix Takes Twin-track Approach Climate Solution

Chris Hall

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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Take Five: Putin’s Sustainability Legacy

Chris Hall

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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ESG Narratives Needed as well as Numbers

Chris Hall

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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New Singapore Guidance for FIs on Environmental Risks

Chris Hall

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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All Systems go for Net Zero

Chris Hall

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