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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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    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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    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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    Will Corporate Climate Coalitions Deliver? A Progress Report On 6 Buyer Groups

    2023-12-20

    GreenBiz: The COP28 climate negotiations gathered a record 84,000 people in Dubai, and the volume of collaborative buying commitments made by companies on the sidelines also swelled.

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    Schroders Joins GREEN For Real Estate Sustainability

    2023-12-19

    Funds Europe: Schroders has joined the Global Real Estate Engagement Network (GREEN), a non-profit engagement network comprised of global institutional investors committed to advancing sustainability within the real estate industry. 

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    A ‘Digital Handshake’ For The Planet: How One Asset Management Firm Adopted A New Framework For ESG

    2023-12-19

    CNBC: ESG investing, which stresses environmental, social and corporate governance yardsticks when building a portfolio, has long struggled with a lack of transparency and differing metrics across companies — making it difficult for investors to gauge the impact of their investments.

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