GreenBiz

JANUARY 28, 2021

Their pitch is that businesses need a digital platform of this nature in order to truly embed ESG metrics and considerations into business decisions. Among early users of its platform are Brookfield Renewables (also an investor) and JPMorgan Chase. It’s a push to produce "investor-grade" climate data. Pull Quote.

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Carbon Real Estate Sustainability Waste 432

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We know this is an issue that many of our 40 million customers care deeply about, particularly in our retail and private banking businesses," Quinn wrote. They care as citizens, consumers and business owners. Pull Quote. Finance & Investing.

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Fossil fuels Retail Climate change Investment 461

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

But corporations need to think far more about the human impact of their business decisions. Business integration actions that address how core business processes support those ambitions and embed consideration for sustainability into holistic strategy. . It needed, ultimately, to be a personal commitment.

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Recycling Recycling Climate change Sustainability 463

Impact Alpha

MAY 19, 2020

Small businesses and nonprofits will need affordable and accessible loans to re-open and recover from the COVID crash. 17, The post The Brief: Stakeholder claims on corporate cash + 10 ways to deploy it, sharing micro-insurance, pay-gap transparency, JPMorgan director in the hot seat appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

During the session, Cecily Joseph, adviser for the Presidio Graduate School Initiative for Equity and Social Justice, highlighted the three major components of sustainability in business today — racial equity, climate change, and health and wellness.

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Climate change Health Sustainability Education 328

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

The tone from the panel was that ESG is something to address in order to keep investors happy but that it could likely be achieved with little effort or few changes to the existing banking business model. “Do Greg Determan, managing director at JPMorgan Chase & Co., Toon asked Determan if “You [JPMorgan] [are]ARE?

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In addition, SparkCharge CEO Josh Aviv was named one of Insider’s 100 People Transforming Business. ClearTrace announced a collaboration with EDF and JPMorgan Chase to ensure that 100 percent of the electricity consumed by JPMorgan Chase’s UK offices operations are matched in real-time with renewable energy.

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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Startups Building Energy Monitoring 98

Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

ClearTrace announced a collaboration with EDF and JPMorgan Chase to ensure that 100 percent of the electricity consumed by JPMorgan Chase’s UK offices operations are matched in real-time with renewable energy. Terrapin Geothermics ’ Alberta No. Awards + Recognition. Heila Technologies is one of BostInno’s 2021 Inno on Fire honorees.

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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Startups 98

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Big industry names such as Bayer and Cargill said they would help farmers transition to regenerative methods, and big names from the wider corporate world — JPMorgan Chase and IBM, for instance — bought some of the first carbon credits from Indigo Carbon, an soil offsets marketplace.

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Soil Carbon-negative Agriculture Carbon 480

GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

Take the Business Roundtable, a group of companies whose 2019 Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation has received copious press coverage. The committee is led by two black and five white executives from Eaton, Vista Equity Partners, AT&T, Marriott International, General Motors, JPMorgan Chase and Johnson & Johnson.

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Investment Sustainability Pollution Organic 438

GreenBiz

APRIL 8, 2021

The market for these loans, which specifically tie funding to achieving sustainability or environmental goals, is likely to grow twentyfold this year, representing up to $150 billion in financing, JPMorgan said. Critical business locations protected from flood, heat, fire, storms. Scenario plans. (?) Independent energy supply. (?)

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Climate change Sustainability Patents Investment 397

GreenBiz

AUGUST 24, 2020

Rather than raising funds for a particular category of projects or initiatives, the proceeds of sustainability-linked loans can be used for general business purposes. The deal was underwritten by a consortium of 18 major banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Barclays and Citibank.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 9, 2020

“The bigger utilities have done dozens and dozens of renewable energy contracts, so it’s a little bit more business as usual. Those types of deals often involve more collaboration, Kevin Smith, Lightsource's CEO for the Americas, told GTM. They have their procedures and policies and contract structures,” he said.

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Law Electricity Investment Construction 218

AGreenLiving

APRIL 12, 2021

Part of the commercial banking division, the group will include dedicated bankers led by Brian Lehman, who most recently led the JPMorgan Chase diversified financials team. In his comments , Dimon notes: There’s huge opportunity in sustainable and low-carbon technologies and businesses. Of course, JPMorgan Chase isn’t the only big U.S.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

While most proposals originate with company management, a growing investor movement uses shareholder proposals or resolutions to promote more sustainable business practices. As most people cannot attend companies’ annual meetings, corporations offer shareholders the option to cast a proxy vote by mail or electronic means.

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Retail Policy Government Organic 319

AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Industry leaders Mario Azar of Black and Veatch and Alec Saltikoff of JPMorgan Chase, take on the VERGE 19 main stage to reimagine how businesses of all sizes and sectors use electricity. See more here: Mario Azar and Alec Saltikoff on delivering clean energy at scale.

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Energy Energy Electricity 28

Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2021

"Covid-19 has highlighted how non-financial risks, such as climate change, are capable of generating significant shocks to businesses and the economy. In order to identify themselves to customers as well-governed and resilient business, banks must prioritise sustainable finance.".

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 25, 2021

Any bank that makes a ‘net zero by 2050’ policy commitment and then treats it as a license to continue with business as usual is guilty of greenwashing.” JPMorgan Chase is the worst offender for five years running, according to the report. Citibank came in as second worst, but was still 33% better than JPMorgan Chase.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Natural gas Policy 28

Business Green

JANUARY 8, 2021

All the top green business news from around the world this week including China's ETS, Japan's fossil fuel car ban, and Enel's African green power push. While JPMorgan Chase remains the world's largest fossil fuel financier, with Raymond no longer holding them back, Chase must overhaul its coal, oil and gas funding.".

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Climate action and sustainability are the core issues of the festival which will focus on four predominant themes: Business & Finance, Policy & Influence, Science, Data & Insights, Arts & Culture. Business & Finance Climate change poses important new risks and opportunities for business and finance leaders.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Taking stock of Chase, HSBC, and Morgan Stanley’s recent climate commitments Whitney Mann Tue, 11/24/2020 – 00:40 Recent months have seen major moves on climate action by some of the world’s largest private banks, including JPMorgan Chase, HSBC and Morgan Stanley. They won’t have changed their business model.

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Investment Carbon Sustainability Natural gas 28

AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Taking stock of Chase, HSBC, and Morgan Stanley’s recent climate commitments Whitney Mann Tue, 11/24/2020 – 00:40 Recent months have seen major moves on climate action by some of the world’s largest private banks, including JPMorgan Chase, HSBC and Morgan Stanley. They won’t have changed their business model.

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Investment Carbon Sustainability Climate change 28

GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

For example, project financing and business models are in dire need of innovation in order to both lower the costs of storage and make it more readily available to the commercial and industrial (C&I) space, developers and other customers that could directly benefit from its implementation.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 9, 2020

We know this is an issue that many of our 40 million customers care deeply about, particularly in our retail and private banking businesses," Quinn wrote. They care as citizens, consumers, and business owners.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Investment Retail 101

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Investors are estimated to have this morning placed more than £90bn in orders for the 0.875 per cent green gilt, the sale of which saw Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citi utsche Bank, HSBC, and JPMorgan act as bookrunners, according to Reuters.

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Retail Government Transportation Biodiversity 72

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 30, 2020

org, on how companies can be more authentic in their storytelling 5 questions with JPMorgan Chase (31:35) Marisa Buchanan is managing director and head of sustainability for the financial services firm. How innovation and new business models alter people’s relationship with waste. Behavior change and the circular economy.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

This is my year-end article from Harvard Business Review that I mentioned in my last post (which has many more stories and links). Business defends democracy. This is an important story if only for how far it expands the role of business in society. [Happy New Year! How do you know when something becomes the norm? Here we go.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2021

Firm joins Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, and JPMorgan Chase in pledging to reduce its operations and activity in line with global climate goals. As the world's most global bank, we are interconnected with many carbon-intensive sectors that continue to help drive global economic development," she said.

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Fossil fuels Investment Carbon Climate change 88

DeSmogBlog

JULY 7, 2022

All the others, even those members of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, fail to align their business with a 1.5°C banks, JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America, account for one quarter of all fossil fuel financing in the last six years. Just last year, fossil fuel financing reached $185.5

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Policy Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral Global warming 97

EDF + Business

AUGUST 17, 2021

Last week’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) offered a grim reminder that business-as-usual won’t protect people or the planet from the catastrophic effects of climate change. To meet its 2030 climate targets , for example, JPMorgan expects 75% methane and 90% flaring reduction from oil and gas clients.

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Methane Climate change Policy Politics 52

EDF + Business

APRIL 22, 2020

Even before the tragic illness, heartbreaking loss of life and growing financial hardship of the COVID-19 crisis, the social contract between government, business and society was stretched to its limit. In our pre-pandemic world, long-held views about the roles and responsibilities of government and business were already in question.

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Resilience Carbon Climate change Health 52

Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

stake); a call of TAURON to company’s to invest in and coordinate energy efficiency, which they argue is the logical choice for good business. Energy efficiency good for business – TAURON. 200 billion in response to Russia’s energy war. Europe as a whole is struggling with high electricity prices. billion ($1.1

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Energy Energy Investment Europe 98

Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2021

Their pitch is that businesses need a digital platform of this nature in order to truly embed ESG metrics and considerations into business decisions. Among early users of its platform are Brookfield Renewables (also an investor) and JPMorgan Chase. It's a push to produce "investor-grade" climate data.

Carbon 50

Carbon Real Estate Sustainability Waste 50

GreenBiz

JULY 9, 2020

BofA, Goldman, JPMorgan, Wells Fargo launch center for climate-aligned finance. The nonprofit announced Wednesday that it’s partnering with four of the world’s largest financial institutions — Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America — to launch the Center for Climate-Aligned Finance. Jesse Klein.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

’s days, when VCs alone pumped expensive equity into energy commodities businesses, is the depth and breadth of specialized climate tech capital support. Key Players: Bank of America, HSBC, JPMorgan, Citibank, SVB, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs Insurance: Insurance providers lead the way for lenders in de-risking climate tech projects.

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Investment Startups Sustainability Government 133

Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

We recently partnered with fellow SABA member Microsoft to use SAF to decarbonise their West Coast business travel, and today we are excited to join SABA, Amazon Air and others to create this new airline group focused on tangible steps, at scale, to accelerate progress and increase availability for all.".

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Aviation Sustainability Fossil fuels Organic 41

Green Market Oracle

MAY 7, 2020

Recently lawmakers that city introduced a resolution that formally demands that the banks, asset managers and insurance giants with which the city government does business divest from oil, gas and coal. This move is part of an evidence-based approach to position the largest city in the U.S.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Ethics Government 52