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    Mirova Raises Over $200 Million from Corporate Investors for Nature Restoration Fund

    2024-03-13

    ESG Today: Natixis Investment Managers’ sustainable investing affiliate Mirova announced that it has raised more than €195 million (USD$213 million) for its corporate-backed Climate Fund for Nature, aimed at supporting high-quality projects dedicated to nature protection and restoration.

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    By the Numbers: How Much U.S. Investors Are Diverging From Global Peers on ESG

    2024-03-12

    Institutional Investor: For the past two years, ESG has fallen out of favor among U.S. allocators. The rest of the world? Not so much.

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    Canadian Securities Regulators Publish Updated Guidance On ESG-Related Investment Fund Disclosure

    2024-03-07

    Canadian Securities Administrators: The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published updated guidance for investment funds on disclosure practices as they relate to environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters.

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    Green Groups Decry SEC’s Climate Disclosure Rule as Too Weak

    2024-03-07

    BNN Bloomberg: Another piece of the Biden administration’s sweeping policy response to climate change fell into place, when the US Securities and Exchange Commission voted to approve highly anticipated climate disclosure requirements for public companies.

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    Climate Investors Warn the Right Is Winning the War on ESG

    2024-02-28

    BNN Bloomberg: When global warming is politicized, professional investors are unable to do their jobs properly. That’s the key message from the world’s biggest investor coalition on climate change after several of its largest members left the group this month.

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    Deutsche Bank Releases New Framework to Classify Sustainable Finance and Investment

    2024-02-27

    ESG Today: Deutsche Bank announced the release of a new Sustainable Finance Framework, outlining the methodologies and procedures, including the environmental and social criteria and categories, used by the bank to classify transactions and financial products as “sustainable.”

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    House Committee Seeks Details From Fed About Funds’ ESG Pledges

    2024-02-27

    BNN Bloomberg: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is seeking information from the Federal Reserve about whether some asset managers are breaching agreements with the central bank because of their links to climate-finance groups.

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    Big Companies Press Ahead With ESG Despite US Political Backlash

    2024-02-16

    BNN Bloomberg: Despite the recent anti-ESG pushback in the US, many companies — roughly 90% in a survey by KPMG — plan to dedicate more financial resources to ESG over the next three years.

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    The ESG Backlash on Wall Street Spurs a Jump in ETF Closures

    2024-02-15

    Yahoo Finance: Interest in sustainable investing has taken a back seat in the past year after the the environmental, social and governance strategy found itself enmeshed in a viscous political storm.

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    Goldman Sachs AM Launches Global Green Bond ETF

    2024-02-15

    ESG Today: Goldman Sachs Asset Management announced the launch of the Goldman Sachs Global Green Bond UCITS ETF, a new Article 9 fund tracking a bespoke index developed with Solactive, tracking the performance of investment-grade bonds denominated in G10 currencies.

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