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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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- ESG, greenwashing, impact 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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- ESG, impact 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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- impact investing
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India Looks to Rope in China, Emerging Markets to Push Paris Climate Deal, Seeks $100B From Rich Nations
“Brazil, South Africa, India, and China put together has one-third of the world’s geographical area and nearly 40% of the global population and when we unitedly speak in one voice, it shows our determination,” said Prakash Javadekar in the 28th Ministerial meeting on climate change in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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- Environment
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- climate change
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Rhino Bonds: Can Big Finance Really Save Big Beasts?
Since the 1970s, the population of black rhinos, primarily found in South Africa, has plummeted from 65,000 to just 5,500 due to poaching driven by demand from China and Vietnam for rhino horn.
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- Environment, Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Viewpoint: ESG Investing Isn’t The Only Way To Make An Impact
In many cases, we are seeing direct environmental benefits too, thanks to VC’s support for increased automation and the sharing economy.
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- Environment, Investing
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- ESG, impact investing