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Climate Change Moves to Top of Investors’ List of ESG Issues
As institutional investors spend an increasing amount of time thinking about environmental, social and governance risks and strategies for dealing with them, the issue of climate change continues to push its way to the top of the list.
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- Environment, Investing
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Press Release: Major Private Sector Institutions Present Solutions for Mobilizing Climate Finance
Drawing on the direct perspective of some of the world’s largest institutions across the investment chain, including private banks, asset managers, and asset owners, the report identifies concrete opportunities for leadership by the public and private sectors to meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement.
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- Environment
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Impact Tech Venture OpenSC Raises $4 Million in Seed Funding
OpenSC, an impact venture developed in partnership by the World Wide Fund for Nature Australia (WWF-Australia) and BCG Digital Ventures (BCGDV), the global corporate venture, investment, and incubation arm of Boston Consulting Group, today announced that OpenSC has raised $4 million in seed funding from strategic impact investors.
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- Press Release
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- Environment, Investing
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- South Asia
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- environment, supply chains
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Viewpoint: How Making Smart Financial Decisions Can Have a Positive Impact on Climate Change
Skeptics question the effect of ESG investment on financial performance, but we emphasize that climate change and other ESG-related risks materialize only over the long term.
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- Environment, Investing
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Viewpoint: 4 Key Questions to Help Investors Avoid Greenwashing
We believe investors should consider four key questions to cut through the sustainable investing confusion and avoid greenwashing.
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- Environment, Investing
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Viewpoint: China’s Belt and Road Global Infrastructure Plans Are Dooming the Planet
Unless the United States challenges Chinese claims and competes with Chinese development projects, Beijing will continue to diplomatically benefit from asserting leadership with little cost.
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- Environment
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Do ‘S’ and ‘G’ Really Drive Returns? Investors Lack Confidence in Criteria
While there is growing public awareness around climate change, resource scarcity, social injustice and global population growth, investors have become increasingly focused on only one of the three key criteria attached to socially responsible investing.
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- Environment, Investing
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BlackRock in Amazon: ‘World’s Largest Investor in Deforestation’
Of the 167 deforestation-risk companies identified by the researchers, BlackRock held shares in 61 of them - valued at $1.5bn by the end of last year.
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- Environment, Investing
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