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    Trump Criticises Countries' Migration and Climate Policies in Scathing UN Speech

    2025-09-23

    BBC: Donald Trump has criticised other countries' migration and climate policies, during a scathing speech to the United Nations that also took aim at the body itself.

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    Deaths Rose in Emergency Rooms After Hospitals Were Acquired by Private Equity Firms

    2025-09-22

    Harvard News: Patient death rates increased in the emergency departments of U.S. hospitals acquired by private equity firms compared to similar hospitals not acquired by private equity, according to a nationwide study of hundreds of hospitals conducted by researchers at Harvard Medical School, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Chicago.

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    Spooked by Geopolitics, Global Allocators Pull Back From U.S. Assets

    2025-09-17

    Institutional Investor: Asset owners are rethinking their global asset allocation amid a disrupted world order, according to Morningstar’s fourth annual quantitative survey of asset owners. This includes a notable pivot away from U.S. assets driven by policy uncertainty and currency risk.

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    Court Orders SEC to Either Defend, Change or Repeal Climate Reporting Rules

    2025-09-16

    ESG Today: The U.S. Court of Appeals has told the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it will not issue a ruling on the legality of its climate disclosure rules, as requested by the SEC, leaving the agency on its own to decide on the fate of the rules requiring climate-related reporting by public companies.

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    Texas AG Probes Proxy Advisers Glass Lewis, ISS Amid ESG Backlash

    2025-09-16

    Yahoo Finance: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation into proxy advisers Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services, alleging they may have misled institutional investors and public companies.

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    Trump’s Call to End Quarterly Reports Gets Unlikely Support From Climate-Conscious Investors

    2025-09-16

    Investing.com: A call by Donald Trump to ditch quarterly corporate reporting has received cautious support from an unlikely source: international investors pushing business to do more on longer-term sustainability issues, many lambasted by the U.S. president.

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    VC Giants Join Forces to Scale Climate Tech Startups

    2025-09-15

    KnowESG: Fourteen venture capital and growth equity firms with $60 billion in assets launch a collaborative climate tech fund. The All Aboard Coalition aims to bridge the “valley of death” for clean tech startups scaling from early-stage to commercial deployment.

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    Neuberger Berman Joins Blackstone in Backing Sustainability Software Provider Sphera

    2025-09-12

    ESG News: Sphera, the Chicago-based sustainability and operational risk management software firm, has secured a new round of growth capital from Neuberger Berman Capital Solutions, adding a second major institutional backer alongside Blackstone.

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    BlackRock’s Support for Environmental, Social Proposals Dips to Less Than 2% in 2025

    2025-09-11

    ESG Dive: Average shareholder support for environmental and social proposals has declined over the past four proxy seasons from a 2021 high of 33%, according to a proxy preview report released last year. 

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    SEC Chair Warns IFRS Foundation Over Support for International Sustainability Standards Board

    2025-09-11

    ESG Today: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may reconsider its rules allowing foreign companies to file financial statements using International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) accounting standards due to the IFRS Foundation’s formation and backing of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), according to a warning issued by SEC Chair Paul Atkins.

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