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Goldman Sachs Earth Day Impact Report Shows Change Isn’t Easy
While Goldman has increased investment in green operations to $1.2 billion in 2018 from $701 million in 2017, it had more trouble gaining energy efficiency and managing carbon emissions.
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- Environment, Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Wheb and Impax Lead the Way as ‘Impact Washing’ Confuses Investors
As product launches in the space gather pace, the Investment Association is currently consulting on environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure, while the World Bank recently launched operating principles for impact investors and Eurosif has long offered a transparency code for investors reaching certain disclosure standards.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Viewpoint: Cannabis Just Made Socially Responsible Investing More Confusing
So how does cannabis play into SRI? As legal marijuana use has grown, publicly traded companies such as Tilray Inc. and Canopy Growth have caught many investor’s eyes. In some cases, the same investors who spurned investments based on controversial or religious factors have looked at cannabis differently.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Viewpoint: Why Hasn’t Sustainable Investing Gone Viral Yet?
To begin and persevere a movement that effects real change, it needs not only leaders, but even more importantly, those first followers who can draw momentum to the movement to achieve critical mass.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Press release: Aligned Intermediary awarded grant to support Climate Finance Partnership
The consortium has jointly committed to develop a flagship blended private infrastructure equity fund for climate infrastructure projects and companies in emerging markets. The fund aims to be one of the biggest blended vehicles to-date targeting climate-related investments in developing countries.
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- Investing
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Workers want those hard-to-find socially responsible investments in their 401(k) plans: Survey
A new survey finds that 61% of workers would increase their retirement savings if they could put their money in socially conscious investments. The same survey also found that just 13% of workers have access to those kinds of impact investments.
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- Investing
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- North America
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- ESG, impact investing
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S&P is rolling out socially-minded index
S&P Dow Jones Indices will launch an environmental, social and governance version of its S&P 500 Index. The move’s an effort to meet increased investor demand for sustainable-investment vehicles based on U.S. equities.
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- Investing
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- North America
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- ESG, impact investing
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Viewpoint: Socially Responsible Investing Has A Politics Problem
As a topic up for public discussion, socially conscious investing comes with some political touchiness, mostly thanks to its inherent interconnection with the broader climate science debate.
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- Investing
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