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    BNP Paribas Launches Climate Debt Fund

    2023-12-15

    ESG Clarity: BNP Paribas has launched the BNP Paribas Climate Impact Infrastructure Debt, an SFDR Article 9 fund that invests in energy transition projects across Europe.

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    Goldman Sachs Closes Climate ETF as Investors Flee ESG

    2023-12-14

    Yahoo Finance: Goldman Sachs, the ETF issuer with $30.6 billion in 41 ETFs, is shuttering a $7.64 million climate equity exchange-traded fund two years after its launch as ESG funds come under regulatory scrutiny and face conservative political backlash.

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    Apollo Launches Clean Transition Private Equity Fund

    2023-12-12

    ESG Clarity: Apollo Global Management is launching a clean transition private equity fund on its Luxembourg-based product platform, as part of the fund manager’s goal of deploying $50bn in clean energy and climate capital by 2027.

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    ESG Critics Ultimately May Help Improve the Strategies

    2023-12-08

    Institutional Investor: If those on either side of the debate over environmental, social, and governance investments feel thoroughly convinced of their arguments, they should think again.

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    EMs Face Dearth of Private Capital Amid Slow Gains in Transparency

    2023-12-08

    ESG Clarity: Private capital flows to emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs), excluding China, have dropped 22% since 2019 despite the ESG market growing 15% to $22trn in 2022 – and $1trn of that invested for positive impact.

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    Swiss Life's Infrastructure Fund Reaches First Close

    2023-12-08

    Funds Europe: Swiss Life Asset Managers has announced the successful first close of its value-add infrastructure fund, Swiss Life Funds (LUX) ESG Global Infrastructure Opportunities Growth II, with over €560 million in capital commitments.

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    Sprott, HanETF Launch Copper Miners ETF Focused On Lower Carbon Footprint

    2023-12-07

    XM: HanETF and Sprott Asset Management jointly launched an exchange-traded fund in Europe that tracks copper miners with a lower carbon footprint, in what will be their third fund to be unveiled togetherin the last two years.

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    Investors Should Look To The Global South To Scale Climate Solutions

    2023-12-05

    GreenBiz: Much has been made of whether and how the stock market can meaningfully support climate action. Because most  transactions occur in the secondary market, trading shares of listed companies appears rather removed from the "real" economy, where tangible decarbonization takes place.

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    Financial Services DEI Score Drops Amid ‘Lack Of Real Progress’

    2023-12-04

    ESG Clarity: Longstanding employees in the financial services sector say diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) has deteriorated in the past 12 months, according to a survey.

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    What Banks Really Mean When They Put Trillions Into ESG

    2023-12-04

    BNN Bloomberg: In recent years, many of the world’s biggest banks have published reports chronicling the vast sums they say they’re channeling into environmental and social activities.

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