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ESG Today: J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s timberland investment advisory company Campbell Global announced that it has raised $1.5 billion at the close of its responsible forest management-focused Forest & Climate Solutions Fund II.
ESG Dive: Major oil producers have faced a mixed bag defending against state climate litigation. Oil companies have had lawsuits initiated by the states of New Jersey and New York dismissed this year. However, industry bids to dismiss lawsuits filed by the states of California and Connecticut and the county and city of Honolulu, Hawaii have been unsuccessful thus far.
Institutional Investor: Aristides Capital may be the first hedge fund to open an office in Canada under the new administration — and not because of Trump’s tariff policy, even though CEO Claire Brown thinks those don’t make any sense at all.
ESG Dive: The SEC’s “Enhanced Disclosures by Certain Investment Advisers and Investment Companies about Environmental, Social, and Governance Investment Practices” rule was among ESG-related regulations in the rulemaking or proposal phase at the agency expected to be on the chopping block under the Trump administration.
PR Newswire: Atlas-SSI Holdings, LLC ("Atlas-SSI" or the "Company"), a North American supplier of water management equipment for the protection of mission-critical assets and water ecosystems, announced its acquisition by the Sustainable Investing team at Goldman Sachs Alternatives.
ESG Dive: The OCC’s decision to withdraw the guidance on managing climate-related risks comes almost a month after the agency announced it was departing the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System.
ESG News: Major US corporations, including Meta, McDonald’s, Walmart, Bank of America, and BlackRock, have recently scaled back their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. However, these changes may have limited direct effects on ESG Risk Ratings, according to Morningstar Sustainalytics.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: The Securities and Exchange Commission voted to end its defense of the rules requiring disclosure of climate-related risks and greenhouse gas emissions.
ESG Dive: JPMorgan Chase announced changes to its internal practices on diversity, equity and inclusion and its external memberships in climate-related organizations last week, ESG Dive confirmed.
Yahoo Finance: The lawsuit alleging the three asset managers had conspired to “artificially constrict” the U.S. coal market was first filed in November, claiming the asset managers had made “substantial” investments in public coal companies to get them to drive down their output.
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