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    ‘A Bully’: The Billionaire Who Led Calls For Claudine Gay’s Harvard Exit

    2024-01-04

    The Guardian: Chief among the campaigners celebrating the resignation of Claudine Gay as president of Harvard University was a man who arguably did the most to push Gay, Harvard’s first Black president, out the door: Bill Ackman, a billionaire hedge-fund manager and Harvard alumnus.

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    Only 7% Of US Climate Tech Venture Capital Funding Went To Female Founders In 2023

    2024-01-03

    GreenBiz: In 2023, 21 out of 319 climate tech funding rounds in the U.S. went to female-founded companies, according to data from Pitchbook. That’s 6.6 percent of deals.

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    BlackRock Sued by Tennessee Over ‘Misleading’ ESG Strategy

    2023-12-18

    BNN Bloomberg: Tennessee sued BlackRock Inc. for allegedly breaching consumer protection laws by making “misleading” statements about its ESG investment strategy.

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    Newly Filed Bitcoin ETF Application Targets ESG Investors With Carbon Credits

    2023-12-18

    Yahoo Finance: The asset manager 7RCC filed an application with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a new kind of Bitcoin ETF that would provide investors exposure to the popular cryptocurrency alongside carbon credits.

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    BlackRock, State Street Subpoenaed in House ESG Probe

    2023-12-15

    BNN Bloomberg: House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan has subpoenaed BlackRock Inc. and State Street Corp. for documents related to the committee’s inquiry into whether their efforts to combat climate change violate US antitrust law, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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    US Regulator Probes Banks' Climate Risk Planning

    2023-12-14

    US News: The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) carried out its first climate risk assessment of more than two dozen banks in recent months, laying the groundwork for heightened scrutiny of Wall Street's accounting for such threats, people familiar with the matter said.

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    House Panel Subpoenas Vanguard, Arjuna In ESG ‘Collusion’ Probe

    2023-12-11

    CNBC: A House panel subpoenaed The Vanguard Group and Arjuna Capital, the latest step in its yearlong investigation into whether investment funds’ environmental, social and governance policies violate antitrust laws. 

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    Global ESG Market Shrinks After Sizable Drop in US

    2023-11-28

    BNN Bloomberg: A decline in the US has resulted in an overall slide in the global market for ESG investing. That’s according to the latest assessment by the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance (GSIA), which provides updates on the size of the market every two years.

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    Dimensional Launches New Sustainability-Focused Investment Fund

    2023-11-27

    Funds Europe: Dimensional has announced the introduction of the Global Sustainability Targeted Value Fund, focusing on small and mid-cap value stocks in developed markets.

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    Canadian Companies Not Ready For New ESG Standards And Reporting Regulations

    2023-11-22

    Yahoo Finance: Sustainability reporting pressures on Canadian companies are becoming even more demanding and complex, with the new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) mandate for companies both inside and outside the European Union (EU), to report on sustainability and environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.

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