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    ESG Campaigns Seen Falling Out of Favor With Activist Investors

    2024-01-08

    BNN Bloomberg: Activist investors are expected to carry out fewer environmental and social campaigns this year after the strategy proved less lucrative than other shareholder agendas, according to business consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal Inc. 

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    Investment Managers Are Still Over-Promising And Under-Delivering On ESG

    2024-01-05

    ESG Clarity: Groundhog Day isn’t until February. But the Redington team could be forgiven for feeling trapped in a time loop of “six more weeks of Winter” on ESG delivery.

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    Successful ESG Strategy Aligns With Investor Requirements

    2024-01-05

    Sustainability Magazine: What is the true meaning of environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy? We often hear this term, which can often seem interchangeable with ‘sustainability strategy’, but the terms alone are slightly different.

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    ESG-Linked Bond Sales Drop Most on Record on Investor Skepticism

    2024-01-04

    BNN Bloomberg: Global sales of sustainability-linked bonds plunged 22% in 2023, a record drop, as investors remain critical of the label, and more issuers risk missing their pre-determined environmental, social or governance targets.  

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    ‘Trickier’ For ETFs To Adopt France’s ESG Investment Rules

    2024-01-04

    ETF Stream: ETFs in Europe may find it much harder to abide by new French ESG fund labelling rules recently implemented by the government.

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    Global Emerging Markets Bounced Back In 2023

    2024-01-04

    ESG Clarity: There are thousands of listed companies in the global emerging markets region. Many of these actively incorporate ESG considerations into their operations.

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    ‘A Bully’: The Billionaire Who Led Calls For Claudine Gay’s Harvard Exit

    2024-01-04

    The Guardian: Chief among the campaigners celebrating the resignation of Claudine Gay as president of Harvard University was a man who arguably did the most to push Gay, Harvard’s first Black president, out the door: Bill Ackman, a billionaire hedge-fund manager and Harvard alumnus.

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    Only 7% Of US Climate Tech Venture Capital Funding Went To Female Founders In 2023

    2024-01-03

    GreenBiz: In 2023, 21 out of 319 climate tech funding rounds in the U.S. went to female-founded companies, according to data from Pitchbook. That’s 6.6 percent of deals.

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    Four Trends Shaping Sustainable Finance's Future In 2024

    2024-01-03

    Corporate Knights: Temperature records were broken month after month in 2023, pushing governments around the globe to promise to triple their renewable-energy capacity and transition away from fossil fuels at this year’s UN climate summit.

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    The Year Ahead in ESG: Assurance, Transition Finance and Natural Capital

    2024-01-03

    GreenBiz: Is it officially too late to wish you a Happy New Year? As we return to work, here are three sustainable finance trends that are top of mind, along with three themes that sustainable finance and ESG community members say they would like prioritized in 2024. 

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