ESG Today: Lawmakers in the European Parliament voted to adopt a new law aimed at establishing a certification system to quantify, monitor and verify carbon removals, and to counter greenwashing.
ESG Clarity: More listed companies are setting science-based targets, and emissions disclosures are growing, but companies’ decarbonisation trajectories still place them on a path to warm the planet by 3 degrees celsius, the latest MSCI Net-Zero Tracker report has revealed.
BNN Bloomberg: Investment funds focused on environmental, social and governance factors will be able to withstand a victory by Donald Trump in the US Presidential election this November, according to Ian Simm, the founder and CEO of Impax Asset management.
ESG Today: Alternative investment data and insights provider Preqin announced the launch of new ESG performance benchmarks aimed at enabling users to assess performance of private markets ESG funds, as well as SFDR, impact and climate funds.
Yahoo Finance: West Virginia has added Citi, HSBC and two other financial firms to a list of institutions that may be barred from some state business due to their energy finance policies, prompting three of them to assert their commitment to that industry.
ESG Today: The Sustainability Standards Board of Japan (SSBJ) announced the release of new exposure drafts for proposed standards for companies to report sustainability and climate-related information, based on the recently released sustainability disclosure standards by the IFRS Foundation’s International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB).
Yahoo Finance: BMO Bank quietly dropped its policy restricting lending to the coal industry in late 2023, helping it avoid being labeled an energy “boycotter” in West Virginia.
Forbes: Despite warnings of a backlash against sustainability over the last couple of years, the environmental, social and governance issues that underpin the buzzword are clearly hardening into business imperatives.
ESG Today: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it has paused the implementation of its recently released climate disclosure rules requiring companies to report on climate-related risks and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Yahoo Finance: Two decades ago, she served as one of 12 asset managers who helped former United Nations official Paul Clements-Hunt coin the term for what’s now a $3 trillion fund sector that aims to not only reap financial returns, but also deliver positive impacts on environmental, societal and governance issues.
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