Popular stocks in climate funds have higher carbon intensity than benchmark
Assets in climate funds balloon to more than half a trillion dollars
Emissions
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Carbon tunnel vision: The epidemic among ESG investors
A wilful blindness to look beyond emissions statistics is compromising supposedly sustainable portfolios
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California emissions and climate risk reporting bills ‘bring US in line with global community’
State passing SB-253 and SB-261 ‘will have significant global implications’
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Should we embrace nuclear energy to solve the climate crisis?
Green Century’s Leslie Samuelrich isn’t sure there are satisfactory reasons to include nuclear in ESG funds
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Only 1.5% of funds aligned with 1.5ºC
Clarity AI finds more than 70% of all assets exposed are invested in funds with above 2.3ºC alignment
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KKR boosts climate strategy with global infrastructure team hire
Charlie Gailliot is based in New York
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SEC ESG rules expected this fall
Mazars’ Jerome Devillers says the regulator will want to get ahead of election campaigning and suggests what alterations may occur
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Inflexibility for SMEs is latest criticism levelled at SBTi
Critics say flexibility is granted to larger corporations in reduction of Scope 3 emissions
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Companies failing to meet net-zero targets
FTSE Russell finds ‘poor’ follow-on disclosures make robust tracking impossible
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ESG changed my mind on…exclusions versus engagement
Invesco’s Steve Smith reflects on the evolution of research around high-emitting assets and how he’s living zero plastic
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Asset managers not ready to pressure firms on Scope 3 rules
Unsure whether disclosures required under CSRD are ‘the right choice at this time’
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BlackRock launches fund investing in materials sector transition
Materials sector accounts for more than 17% of global greenhouse gas emissions