The State of ESG
GreenBiz
MAY 1, 2023
Come hear from leading sustainable investors on how they are navigating 2023’s choppy waters, and how they’re thinking about the next chapter unfolding in sustainable finance and investing.
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Destination: Net Zero - 6 Steps to Carbon Neutrality
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Increasingly companies around the world are under pressure to respond to global climate change. The time is now to establish your path to Destination: Net Zero and CFOs are recognizing the near-term need to address global climate change. This white paper outlines a step?by?step
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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization
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HSBC is latest bank to pledge net-zero financed emissions by mid-century
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 13, 2020
HSBC is latest bank to pledge net-zero financed emissions by mid-century. HSBC has become the latest bank to commit to achieving net-zero financed emissions, announcing Monday that it intends to align its portfolio of investments and debt financing with global climate targets by mid-century. Cecilia Keating.
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Following the money: A sustainable finance odyssey
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Following the money: A sustainable finance odyssey. The money," in this case, is the sprawling and spiraling world of sustainable finance. It drew the attention of a number of friends, colleagues and veritable strangers who wanted to discuss the event’s themes, tracks and topics. This by itself is a complex topic.
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The State of Green Business 2022
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Date/Time: January 24, 2021 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT) The sustainable business world enters 2022 flying high, as the world focuses with increasing urgency on many of its core issues: sustainable finance, the circular economy, clean energy, climate tech and more.
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Episode 260: Disclosure dialogue, your employees want purpose
GreenBiz
MARCH 19, 2021
The SEC’s change of climate on climate change and ESG. Who wants to be a climate-tech billionaire? Finance & Investing. Episode 260: Disclosure dialogue, your employees want purpose. Heather Clancy. Fri, 03/19/2021 - 00:15. Week in Review. Stories discussed this week (3:50). Car companies are now battery companies.
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David Crane is back, with a climate-tech SPAC
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 8, 2020
David Crane is back, with a climate-tech SPAC. One of the hottest 2020 trends in raising capital is infiltrating climate-tech investing. . As of Monday, his new company, Climate Real Impact Solutions (CRIS), had raised more than $230 million for the purpose of merging with a company focused on solving the climate crisis. .
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Climate accountability reaches the CFO suite
GreenBiz
APRIL 8, 2021
Climate accountability reaches the CFO suite. I spent about a decade of my life writing about corporate accounting before I began focusing on sustainability and sustainable finance. And the choices companies make about what they disclose, invest in and finance have a bigger impact on the future direction of the world.
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Episode 274: The nuances of net zero
GreenBiz
JUNE 25, 2021
Why the world needs better climate pledges. Net zero meets green finance (14:25). Erik Landry, climate change specialist at GRESB. Finance & Investing. Episode 274: The nuances of net zero. GreenBiz Editors. Fri, 06/25/2021 - 02:00. Week in Review (2:55). Accelerating sustainability's digital revolution. Circular Economy.
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Episode 258: Hacking climate solutions, finding 'good work'
GreenBiz
MARCH 5, 2021
Episode 258: Hacking climate solutions, finding 'good work'. The role of time horizons and relationship banking in financing a net-zero economy. Hacking the climate crisis (21:10). Heather Clancy. Fri, 03/05/2021 - 02:00. Week in Review. Stories discussed this week (5:05). The coming net-zero backlash. Contributors.
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Joe Biden can be the president for a sustainable private sector
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
To accomplish this ambitious agenda, we believe the time is right for the president to establish a White House Office of Sustainable Finance and Business. The Office of Sustainable Finance and Business would develop a national strategy for U.S. leadership in sustainable finance and business. We agree that this shift is overdue.
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11 young professionals on the future of sustainable finance
GreenBiz
MAY 10, 2021
11 young professionals on the future of sustainable finance. When the conference wrapped up, we asked them what they had learned about the power of finance in advancing a clean, more just economy. Deonna Anderson. Mon, 05/10/2021 - 01:30. Below are answers from most of the latest cohort of Emerging Leaders. Alfre Wimberley.
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Morgan Stanley will measure CO2 impact of loans and investments
GreenBiz
JULY 27, 2020
bank to commit to measuring and disclosing the climate impact of its loans and investments, announcing last week that it has joined a multi-trillion dollar group of global financial institutions developing a standardized method for carbon accounting. Morgan Stanley will measure CO2 impact of loans and investments. Michael Holder.
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Benioff-backed software startup helps companies get smarter about climate risk
GreenBiz
JUNE 3, 2021
Benioff-backed software startup helps companies get smarter about climate risk. How many buildings in your company’s real-estate portfolio might require climate-adaption retrofits? . Climate tech has grabbed a lot of attention recently, with good reason," noted Draper Esprit partner Vinoth Jayakumar. Climate Tech.
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Taking stock of Chase, HSBC, and Morgan Stanley's recent climate commitments
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Taking stock of Chase, HSBC, and Morgan Stanley's recent climate commitments. 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. What sets this latest wave of climate pledges by financial institutions apart from past announcements?
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A CFO’s take on climate and risk management
GreenBiz
JULY 13, 2020
A CFO’s take on climate and risk management. Economic estimates predict that the pandemic will decrease global GDP by 3 percent in 2020, and at our current pace, climate change is estimated to decrease the global GDP by anywhere from 2.5 Vincent Manier. Mon, 07/13/2020 - 01:00. percent to 7.5 percent by 2050. Strategic risk factors.
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The open source movement takes on climate data
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
The open source movement takes on climate data. As GreenBiz co-founder and Executive Editor Joel Makower wrote earlier this week, many companies are moving to disclose " climate risk ," although far fewer are moving to actually minimize it. Heather Clancy. Thu, 09/03/2020 - 00:15.
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Unilever sets out net-zero plans for shareholder vote
GreenBiz
MARCH 25, 2021
Unilever has become one of the first multinational companies in the world to publish a corporate net-zero action plan for oversight by its shareholders, as it prepares to put the climate strategy to an advisory vote at its upcoming AGM in early May. Climate Summit later this year. It also has set up a $1.18 It also has set up a $1.18
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Introducing … GreenFin 21
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Combine that with the growth of related finance products and services — sustainability-linked loans and bonds — and you can find sustainability sitting squarely on Wall Street. We call it GreenFin, our portmanteau for "green finance." The explosive growth of green finance makes sense. It’s no small matter. Three in four U.S.
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Electrifying everything should start with the masses
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
It makes buildings healthier , cheaper and is essential to addressing climate change (building operations account for 28 percent of emissions globally — more than all of the transportation sector). Its vision is to finance all-electric upgrades for buildings in low-income communities to accelerate the speed and scale of deployments. . "We
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What the G7 meeting means for boards of directors
GreenBiz
JUNE 9, 2021
However, last weekend, ahead of the official summit, the Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors released a communiqué with agreed concrete actions addressing "today's historic challenges.". Commit to properly embed climate change and biodiversity loss considerations into economic and financial decision-making.
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Larry Fink says accelerate. He needs to say it much louder
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
He has rightly earned praise for speaking up on climate, investment and economic transition. The size of the climate challenge and how science is tracking the worst-case scenario means we cannot wait years for change to happen. He wants us to embrace the opportunity of climate change and investing; climate risk is investment risk.
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A tidal wave of new carbon emissions data soon will be upon us
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
Central to this shift is likely to be is a collaborative endeavor called Climate TRACE. Climate TRACE (Tracking Real-Time Atmospheric Carbon Emissions) is a project to use satellite image processing, remote sensing technologies, machine learning and artificial intelligence to monitor worldwide human-made greenhouse gas emissions in real time.
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The race to mainstream electric vehicles by 2030
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 2, 2020
Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who revealed a climate plan that includes banning the sales of new gas-powered vehicles starting in 2030 (some hybrids will be allowed until 2035). Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) says that between 2010 and 2019, lithium-ion battery pack prices fell 87 percent. In 2019, they dropped 13 percent more. .
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3 tips for anticipating investor requests on climate, water and biodiversity
GreenBiz
MARCH 3, 2021
3 tips for anticipating investor requests on climate, water and biodiversity. In fact, three environmental issues — climate risks, water risks and biodiversity impacts — are poised to be in sharp focus this year for investors, and companies should prepare. Thomas Singer. Wed, 03/03/2021 - 01:00.
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Inside Hewlett Foundation’s plan to electrify all road transportation by 2050
GreenBiz
JUNE 30, 2021
Foundations , celebrity philanthropists and tech giants alike have announced plans this year, with grand sums of money attached, to combat climate change. Gopal said, "We realized that we're in a pivotal moment, in the next five or six years, which is a make-or-break for climate. A brief 101 on climate funding and the grantee process.
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Seven ways to inform better decisions with TCFD reporting
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) is helping to bring transparency to climate risk throughout capital markets, with the aim of making markets more efficient and economies more stable and resilient. . Seven ways to inform better decisions with TCFD reporting. Steven Bullock. Mon, 09/28/2020 - 00:00.
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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet
GreenBiz
MARCH 4, 2021
Until very recently, investor demands regarding environmental impact largely have focused on the climate crisis and greenhouse gas emissions. Finnish forestry company UPM last year secured a $905 million revolving credit facility with an interest rate tied to its ability to meet long-term climate and biodiversity targets.
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3 keys for scaling nature-based solutions for climate adaptation
GreenBiz
JUNE 17, 2020
3 keys for scaling nature-based solutions for climate adaptation. In Indonesia, climate change is already a pernicious threat. And mature mangroves can store nearly 1,000 tons of carbon per hectare, thus mitigating climate change while also helping communities adapt. Embed nature-based solutions into climate adaptation planning.
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Financing zero: The road to emission-free fleets
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
Financing zero: The road to emission-free fleets. Now, as ambitious climate goals gain momentum and renewable energy prices drop, attention is turning towards scaling such systems for commercial transport. Finance to the rescue. Tali Zuckerman. Wed, 11/04/2020 - 02:00. Despite these challenges, the panelists remained hopeful.
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The rise (and rise) of sustainability-linked finance
GreenBiz
AUGUST 24, 2020
The rise (and rise) of sustainability-linked finance. The bonds alone come in a veritable rainbow of flavors: green bonds; climate bonds; sustainability bonds; social bonds; ESG bonds; blue bonds (related to oceans); and more. Green bonds are used to finance projects and activities that benefit the environment. Joel Makower.
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Major banks are setting climate targets. What the agricultural finance sector needs to know.
EDF + Business
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Many major banks have set targets to reduce financed greenhouse gas emissions in their loan portfolios to zero by 2050 (also known as net zero targets). They join a growing movement of companies throughout the agricultural supply chain to set ambitious targets to reach net zero by 2050 to prevent the most severe impacts from climate change.
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What the limits of traditional accounting mean for the future of food
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 6, 2020
Traditional accounting methods do not fully capture the externalized costs of economic activities in the food and agricultural space, and this shortcoming is becoming more apparent because climate change is intensifying the focus on sustainable development. Some will transact to future generations and others will cost the climate.
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Ambitious partnerships on climate action are taking root and bearing fruit
GreenBiz
JANUARY 25, 2021
Ambitious partnerships on climate action are taking root and bearing fruit. Despite the reductions in air travel and the global economic slowdown caused by the pandemic, climate change sadly has not slowed down this past year. As with COVID-19, perhaps so with climate? Dominic Waughray. Mon, 01/25/2021 - 00:30.
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Insights from green banking: What keeps customers from switching banks?
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
Put simply, a bank’s capital can flow towards fossil fuels or renewable energy, towards local business loans or financing environmentally damaging projects. Certainly, this is a vision all climate-concerned citizens can support, and the opportunity to influence banking as citizens is large. Can they easily find relevant information?
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The 2021 proxy season: What’s on the menu?
GreenBiz
MAY 8, 2021
From how businesses chose to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic to the escalating outcry over racial justice to the increasing urgency around climate change, there is much for companies to answer for this year. Here’s what I found: Demand for climate disclosure is up — and up. Political lobbying: Walt Disney.
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Will sustainability-linked loans drive a revolution in finance?
GreenBiz
APRIL 15, 2021
Will sustainability-linked loans drive a revolution in finance? billion sustainability-linked credit facility in 2019, it did so as part of its sustainability-linked financing framework, and to mark its commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Finance & Investing. Aman Singh. Thu, 04/15/2021 - 01:30. Pull Quote.
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Agricultural banks expect climate change to pose financial risks. Here are five strategies to help them adapt.
EDF + Business
MARCH 15, 2023
Climate change is projected to impact agricultural production worldwide, and 87% of agricultural finance institutions in a recent survey expect it to present risks to their business. Meanwhile, only 24% significantly factor climate change into their decision-making processes.
When it comes to climate investment funds, diverse management is imperative
GreenBiz
APRIL 13, 2021
When it comes to climate investment funds, diverse management is imperative. ESG funds, including those focused on climate change mitigation, do not fare better. A recent survey by PRI illustrated that globally, women are more engaged on climate-related issues than men, especially for people 35 and older. Marilyn Waite.
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5 ways businesses can take action to reduce environmental racism
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
The urgency of now is underscored by the climate crisis and the need for climate justice. . Businesses continue to lead on climate in the absence of U.S. Extreme heat and storms, sea level rise, intense wildfires — climate change may threaten everyone, but many BIPOC communities are more vulnerable to climate impacts.
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Comment: how accessible carbon credits can drive progress towards Net Zero
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
Leading meteorologists forecast earlier this year that by as soon as 2027, this key temperature representing an upper limit on warming to mitigate the worst excesses of climate change, would be hit for the first time. To achieve this transition, we must channel resources and finance toward greenhouse gas reduction and removal projects.
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Corporate Sustainability Training: Practical Employee Education
Green Business Bureau
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Either way, good corporate training guides employees through the range of sustainability topics relevant to their company’s goals, business strategy, operations, and ultimately their own jobs. These courses tend to tackle smaller and more specific topics. Sustainable Finance. Climate Change for VCs.
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In the next round of stimulus aid, corporate America needs to stand up for climate science
GreenBiz
AUGUST 31, 2020
In the next round of stimulus aid, corporate America needs to stand up for climate science. That means getting serious about advocating for a recovery plan that helps us build back better from the current pandemic, while tackling another global systemic threat: climate change. . Today, we are calling for science-based climate advocacy.
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The key things to know about Biden's EV infrastructure plan
GreenBiz
APRIL 7, 2021
Here are 10 important bits to know about the planned federal investments for electric vehicles and EV infrastructure (and a reminder that we're hosting an event about many of these pressing topics, VERGE Electrify online May 25 and 26): 1. by 2030 since before the election. What's been floated now is an aspirational initial draft.
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