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    ESG Faces ’Make or Break’ Moment as Industry Comes of Age, According to New Report

    2022-07-14

    EY: Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing and reporting is facing existential questions associated with a lack of standardization, regulation and common purpose, according to The emerging sustainability information ecosystem, a new report published today by the EY organization and Oxford Analytica. Rising inflation and the war in Ukraine are compounding these challenges.

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    Corporate Backlash Over SEC Climate Plan Takes Shape

    2022-07-13

    BNN Bloomberg: By November, around the time US midterm elections are held, investors will likely learn the fate of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s plan for more comprehensive corporate climate disclosures.

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    Appointment of Céline Boyer-Chammard

    2022-07-12

    Amundi: Prior to joining Amundi, Céline Boyer-Chammard Alice was Managing Director and Partner at the Boston Consulting Group. As a member of BCG’s Financial Institutions, Responsible Finance and Technology Advantage practices, she supported numerous large international clients (banks, asset managers, insurance companies) throughout major transformations.

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    Jeff Ubben Explains His “Anti-ESG ESG” Investment Strategy

    2022-07-12

    Kellogg Insight: Jeff Ubben co-founded the hedge fund ValueAct Capital in 2000. Twenty years later, he left to form a new fund, Inclusive Capital Partners (“In-Cap”), focused on impact investing. Throughout his career, he has favored an active approach to investing. 

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    BlackRock Hires Christopher Kaminker as Deputy Head of Sustainable Investing

    2022-07-11

    ESG Today: Investment giant BlackRock has made a series of appointments to its BlackRock Sustainable Investing (BSI) team, according to an internal memo seen by ESG Today, including the hiring of Lombard Odier’s Head of Sustainable Investment Research & Strategy as Deputy Head of BSI.

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    ESG Unlikely to Survive in its Current Form, Lobby Warns

    2022-07-11

    Money Marketing: Lobby group Net Zero Watch has warned that environmental, societal, and governance (ESG) is unlikely to survive in its current form. They told Money Marketing that ESG has become an investment risk as a result of the energy crisis.

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    ECB’s First Climate Test Sees Up to $71 Billion Hit to Banks

    2022-07-08

    BNN Bloomberg: The European Central Bank’s first major climate stress test shows banks facing a hit of 70 billion euros ($71 billion) if the transition to a lower-carbon economy is disorderly.

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    ESG Litigation is Gaining Momentum

    2022-07-08

    FT Adviser: The term 'ESG' first appeared in a 2004 UN report calling for investment decisions to be made with environmental, social, and governance factors higher in mind.

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    Why Many of America’s Biggest Companies Still Won’t Reveal Pay Data by Race

    2022-07-07

    CNBC: More companies are disclosing their internal data on racial pay equity. The bad news: even more companies aren’t ready to share, and that suggests progress at reaching parity in pay between white and non-white employees remains slow across the corporate landscape.

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    HSBC Executive in Climate Row Quits, Attacks Corporate ‘Cancel Culture’

    2022-07-07

    BNN Bloomberg: The HSBC Holdings Plc executive at the center of a row over climate change risks has resigned from the bank as he issued a broadside against corporate “cancel culture.”

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