September 28, 2020
Seven ways to inform better decisions with TCFD reporting Steven Bullock Mon, 09/28/2020 - 00:00 This article is sponsored by Trucost, part of S&P Global. 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
...September 21, 2020
ESG investments: Exponential potential or surfing one wave? Terry F. Yosie Mon, 09/21/2020 - 00:30 Amidst four concurrent crises — health, economic, race relations and climate — one stand-out 2020 development has been the rebound of major stock markets and, particularly, the growing performance and prominence of environment, social and governance (ESG) traded
...September 4, 2020
Financial models that will get you that on-site microgrid Sarah Golden Fri, 09/04/2020 - 01:30 I’ve written about my high hopes for microgrids and my disappointment at the speed of deployment (due in part to COVID-related slowdowns that stalled construction). But don’t be confused. Like a swimming duck, a lot has been happening with microgrids under the
...September 1, 2020
Carbon pricing works, and this proves it Paul Burke Tue, 09/01/2020 - 00:45 Putting a price on carbon should reduce emissions, because it makes dirty production processes more expensive than clean ones, right? That’s the economic theory. Stated baldly, it’s obvious; however, there is perhaps a tiny chance that what happens in practice might be something else. In a newly
...August 24, 2020
The rise (and rise) of sustainability-linked finance Joel Makower Mon, 08/24/2020 - 02:11 One silver lining of this horrific moment is the rise of loans, bonds and other financial instruments linked to sustainability outcomes. In this sense, "sustainability" is broadly defined to include environmental issues as well as social ones. And, more recently, a new subcategory of, yes,
...August 24, 2020
This is why investors want financial regulators to tackle climate risk Ravi Varghese Mon, 08/24/2020 - 01:15 To understand economic crises of the recent past, present and future, there may be no finer teacher than Michael Lewis. Many readers will be familiar with Lewis’s book "The Big Short," which documented how excesses in global credit markets spawned a worldwide
...July 27, 2020
Morgan Stanley will measure CO2 impact of loans and investments Michael Holder Mon, 07/27/2020 - 00:15 Morgan Stanley has become the first major U.S. 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
...July 22, 2020
While more and more companies are focused on sustainable entrepreneurship and the fair and inclusive economic growth of the global economy, there is still a trend in the ready-made garment industry of companies moving their production to new markets with lower production costs. The largest, not necessarily the most sustainable, economic growth can be seen in Southeast Asia. The pressure on raw materials and
...July 14, 2020
Activist and hip-hop artist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez knows a thing or two about bringing people together.
July 13, 2020
An unexpected breakout year for the social side of ESG Mike Hower Mon, 07/13/2020 - 01:30 About six months ago, I wrote that 2020 would be a pivotal year for environmental, social and governance (ESG), and that what happens this year and over the next decade could determine the next century. While it would be the world’s biggest understatement to say 2020 isn’t turning out the way we
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