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    VCs Say Climate Bill Will Help ‘Prime the Pump’ for Startup Growth

    2022-08-12

    BNN Bloomberg: Investors at G2 Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley firm that backs climate technology, spent this week poring over the Inflation Reduction Act, the US Senate’s landmark climate bill that is expected to be up for a vote Friday in the House of Representatives. It was an exercise in cautious optimism. 

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    Vistria, with $8 Billion in Assets, Weighs Minority Stake Sale

    2022-08-11

    Yahoo News: Vistria Group, an investment firm that aims to achieve both positive social change and investor returns, is exploring the sale of a stake, people with knowledge of the matter said.

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    Angelo Gordon Joins Novata General Partner Advisory Committee to Advance ESG in Private Markets

    2022-08-11

    Business Wire: Angelo Gordon, a $50 billion alternative investment firm focused on credit and real estate investing, has joined Novata’s General Partner (GP) Advisory Committee. Novata, a public benefit corporation backed by the Ford Foundation, Hamilton Lane, S&P Global and Omidyar Network, is the leading ESG data management platform built for the private markets. 

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    Republicans Are Focusing on a New Economic Threat: ESG Scores

    2022-08-10

    Yahoo Finance: To Blake Masters, the newly minted Republican Senate nominee in Arizona, ESG scores are an existential threat to the US economy along with inflation -- an issue worth campaigning on as ardently as securing the border, preventing voter fraud and challenging Big Tech.

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    What’s Wrong with ESG Ratings?

    2022-08-08

    JDSupra: About a year ago, the Brookings Institution held a panel discussion regarding the role that the SEC should play in ESG investing and invited SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce to speak at the panel. 

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    Texas Joins Republican AGs Slamming Larry Fink on ESG Investment

    2022-08-08

    BNN Bloomberg: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Monday that he joined a group of Republican state officials accusing BlackRock Inc. Chief Executive Office Larry Fink of relying on sustainable investments instead of shareholders’ profits. 

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    NYC’s Comptroller Strikes Back at Republicans’ ESG Criticisms

    2022-08-05

    BNN Bloomberg: New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, who helps oversee about $240 billion in pension funds, said efforts by conservative US states to thwart the financial industry’s plans to address climate change are just a cover to defend the interests of oil companies.

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    Carlyle Global Credit Launches Decarbonisation-linked Financing Programme

    2022-08-02

    Private Equity Wire: Global investment firm Carlyle's Global Credit platform has launched a decarbonisation-linked financing programme, providing an incentive for borrowers to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or achieve other climate-related targets.

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    Drop in BlackRock's Support for Environmental, Social Resolutions

    2022-07-26

    U.S. News: BlackRock Inc, the world's No.1 asset manager, reported a sharp drop in its support for environmental and social-related shareholder resolutions, saying many were too prescriptive, while its backing for directors and executive pay held steady.

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    One Fund, Three Names and Lots of Questions for ‘ESG’

    2022-07-25

    BNN Bloomberg: The first was billed as an “impact” investment, the second as an “ESG” investment and the third as “sustainable” investment. In fact, those three BlackRock Inc. mutual funds started out as the same fund—one that was marketed and re-marketed under different names at different times as Wall Street sold the idea of investing with a social purpose.

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