ESG Today: Over half of companies globally report that the use of AI has a major impact on key areas of their decarbonization efforts, according to a new survey released by Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and AI usage was also found to be a significant driver of companies’ ability to derive substantial sustainability-related financial benefits, the report found.
BNN Bloomberg: News emerged last week that Morgan Stanley had quietly shelved a central pillar of its sustainability strategy: a commitment to finance the cleanup and prevention of plastic pollution.
ESG Today: The vast majority of large companies across the world have been increasing sustainability-related investments over the past year, as C-suite executives have become more concerned about the impact of climate change on their companies, according to a new survey released by global professional services firm Deloitte.
Portfolio Adviser: Defence companies were once shunned by environment, social and governance (ESG) investors much like oil and tobacco companies are, but attitudes have reversed dramatically in recent years – a new study by HANetf found that 94% of wealth managers now consider defence companies to be ESG stocks.
ESG Today: Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) announced that it has raised €560 million in total commitments for its Impact Private Credit Strategy (IPC) at its first closing, more than half of the total sought for this effort.
ESG News: Upright has just launched a groundbreaking open database, the first of its kind, covering the science-based impact of over 35,000 mutual funds and ETFs worldwide.
Funds Europe: A report released by the CFA Institute Research and Policy Center, the global association of investment professionals, has called for greater rigour in the classification of ESG funds.
BNN Bloomberg: At Goldman Sachs Group Inc., there’s an ESG filter that tells investors to buy coal giant Glencore Plc, and avoid Big Tech staples Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.
ESG News: Robeco has unveiled its new High Income Green Bonds Strategy, becoming the first asset manager to offer an Article 9 green bond strategy in the credit market.
BNN Bloomberg: For TotalEnergies SE Chief Executive Officer Patrick Pouyanne, the difference in the performance of his company’s stock and that of Exxon Mobil Corp., the largest US producer of oil and gas, is in no small part explained by an acronym: ESG.
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