Corporate Knights

MARCH 22, 2023

Our new report, produced in collaboration with the Ottawa-based Smart Prosperity Institute and funded by the Trottier Family Foundation, finds that pension managers’ support for the green transition is growing but still nowhere near the pace required to meet global net-zero-carbon targets. trillion, versus just 7% of $2.1

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Similarly, CPPIB’s chief sustainability officer wrote in CPPIB’s 2023 Report on Sustainable Investing that “consensus has consolidated around the belief that the financial system should be empowered to finance the transition to a low-carbon future rather than mobilized to pursue a divestment agenda.”

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Fund may also make a modest allocation of funds to early-stage companies with commercial traction and emerging leadership potential.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 23, 2021

American investment management company Essex is putting its money where its mouth is and tackling the water crisis through individual industries. In a similar fashion, British asset management company WHEB is making sure each company it invests in is not only in the process of going zero-carbon but addressing social issues in tandem.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

See below for the highlights of the past week, and get all your ESG news at ESG Today: Sustainability Goals, Initiatives and Achievements. Amazon Facility on Track to be First Ever Zero Carbon Certified Fulfillment Center. Mondelez Ramps Investment in Sustainable Cocoa Initiatives to $1 Billion.

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3BL Media

APRIL 18, 2022

But across solutions—among them agriculture, clean energy, transportation and energy efficiency—the unifying principal that anchors our analysis is how much carbon is avoided. This metric becomes the lens for identifying and evaluating a carbon handprint.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 13, 2023

Innovation can create opportunities for climate progress and investment returns in 2023, says Sarah Bratton Hughes, Head of Sustainable Investing, American Century Investments. That is our investment stewardship approach, particularly concerning portfolio decarbonisation. Sustainability depends on innovation. “If

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

Manufacturing and installing hydrogen technology at scale is one of the main ways that costs can come down — the sooner the economic landscape allows for this scale of deployment, the sooner the shift to a zero-carbon economy.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including Science Based Targets initiative , Chronos Sustainability, WTW, Aviva and Actis. Dalmar Sheikh has joined sustainable infrastructure investment company Actis as Global Head of Data Centre Operations.

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3BL Media

JULY 15, 2022

DESCRIPTION: By Sara Rosner | Director, Environmental Research and Engagement—Responsible Investment and Satyajit Bose | Associate Director—Program in Sustainability Management at Columbia University. Carbon offsets occupy a relatively small space on the spectrum of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 15, 2023

Quinton said that both nations’ focus on sustainable finance must be on implementation to “drive a just and orderly transition to net zero emissions, improve resilience to climate impacts and unlock capital flows into solutions”.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 22, 2022

By Alison Fenton-Willock | Director, Sustainable Investing. During the meeting, SEAC members emphasized the importance of sharing best practices and learnings, as well as the role that private markets investors can and should play in advancing sustainability by mobilizing capital and bringing relevant expertise to investments.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including RLAM, LOIM, Synthesis, Putnam, Victory Hill, and DWS. . Royal London Asset Management (RLAM) has this week announced the launch of its Sustainable Growth Fund.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 6, 2022

“Each product is more sustainable than the one before it, and metrics are key proof points.”. At Schneider Electric, the main challenge was to get suppliers on board the sustainability journey. For more information on how SAP helps companies record, report, and act on their sustainability goals, visit sap.com/sustainability.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 21, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including DWS, T. The ESG Women for Women fund is managed exclusively by women, investing in companies that have strong social values and fair working conditions for women. “The

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Chris Hall

MARCH 24, 2023

After the UN Secretary-General called for developed economies to fast-track net zero commitments by ten years, Therese Niklasson, Global Head of Sustainable Investment at Newton Investment Management emphasises the need for a collective effort. degrees Celsius, global carbon emissions have continued to rise, up 6.4%

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Chris Hall

JUNE 24, 2022

Consistent data on sovereign climate risks is crucial, says Victoria Barron, ASCOR Chair and Head of Sustainable Investment, BT Pension Scheme. Governments know they must attract ESG investors to sovereign debt if they are to meet their net zero carbon emission targets by 2050. billion at the end of 2020.

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Chris Hall

JULY 8, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including LGIM, Amundi, LOIM, Algebris, R&M, and Banor Capital. . Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) , which has £1.42 trillion in AUM, has launched the L&G Net Zero Global Corporate Bond Fund.

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

Investments Leadership Development Program at Columbia Threadneedle Investments, U.S. Many have cited the past year as an inflection point for sustainable investing. Investors can intentionally invest in companies that have a positive social impact and exclude companies that do not.

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Chris Hall

JULY 21, 2022

Sindhu Krishna, Head of Sustainable Investments at Phoenix Group, explains how the asset owner is holding managers to account. If the UK stands any chance of minimising further dangerous heatwaves, it must take the necessary steps to realise its target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050; an ambition that needs £2.7

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2022

But oil and gas companies are not dedicating enough of their revenue capex to investments in sustainable technologies and renewable energy, the report noted. . Scope ESG said that “sustainable investment as a share of revenues remains below 2.5% a year on a constant revenue basis”. .

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3BL Media

JUNE 17, 2022

Announced plans to build the world's first net-zero carbon emissions, integrated ethylene cracker and derivatives site in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. Accelerating sustainability investments to enable design for recyclability and more circular plastics.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 6, 2022

JetBlue’s most aggressive near-term emissions reduction target to-date, this science-based target aligns with the goals of the Paris Agreement and the growing airline’s own goal to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2040 – 10 years ahead of broader airline industry targets.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

trillion a year of subsidies that are currently harming the environment could make an “important contribution towards unlocking the over US$700 billion a year needed to reverse nature loss by 2030”, as well as the cost of reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050. A joint paper said reforming the US$1.8

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Chris Hall

JULY 1, 2022

For example, the Net Zero Asset Owners Alliance is not led by sustainability teams, it’s typically CIOs who are driving it.”.

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Chris Hall

JULY 27, 2022

Combined, these trends promise to form what Goldman Sachs described as a “virtuous cycle” that has developed in Europe, in which increased ESG fund labelling requirements trigger greater inflows, which prompts wider taxonomy adoption, which attracts more investment, and so on. . “A

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 9, 2020

Friedmann concluded that low carbon appears to be the most versatile and cost competitive options for many industry sectors and that special policy options may be needed to decarbonize industrial heat. Zero-Carbon Cities This session looked at the decarbonization of buildings, including both embodied and operational emissions.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This work culminated in a new report, “ Decarbonization Pathways for Paraguay’s Energy Sector ,” published in November of 2021 by the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), and co-authored by the Quadracci Sustainable Engineering Lab at Columbia University, and Paraguay-based Centro de Recursos Naturales, Energía y Desarrollo (CRECE).

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3BL Media

JANUARY 5, 2024

In addition, we use tracking programs to monitor and manage our environmental performance and calculate our annual carbon footprint. Realizing that climate impacts threaten more than supply chains and physical infrastructure, we made the commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2050, using our 2019 baseline.

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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.

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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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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Billion to Build Chemical Plant with Capability for Zero Carbon Footprint Government & Regulators Biden Unveils Plans for U.S.

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