Finance & Investment
The latest in the spheres of socially responsible investing, impact investing, and other ways investors and shareholders are asserting their desire for ethical investment options.
UPDATE: Salesforce’s Sustainability Cloud Empowers Business to Drive Impactful Climate Action
Salesforce reinforces sustainability commitments at UNGA and Climate Week NYC with stakeholder engagement, STEM investments, and a new carbon accounting product.
Blockchain and the Climate Crisis: Beyond the Hype
Blockchain’s full potential cannot be forecast with certainty. Yet, in a messy world where various parties struggle to gain enough good faith to work together on solutions, systems that engender trust will lay the foundation for progress.
Sustainable Investors Representing $90T Rally to Fight Amazon Fires
The world’s largest responsible investor group is campaigning to end the manmade fires raging through the Amazon, as latest assessment reveals increased deforestation since the 2014 New York Declaration on Forests.
Good Fashion Fund Seeks Sustainable, Scalable Supply Chain Solutions
Cross-Posted from Supply Chain. If we are to really shift the textile industry from one that is harming workers, local communities and the environment to one that is circular and sustainable, scalable solutions will be necessary.
Morgan Stanley Impact Quotient™ Offers Sustainable Investing Analytics, Reporting
The Morgan Stanley IQ application gives wealth management clients new customizable insights into the social and environmental impact of their investment portfolios.
Report: Food Giants Capitalizing on Consumers’ ‘Appetite for Disruption’
$5.3 trillion investor coalition reports on how global food companies including Tesco, Carrefour and Nestlé are responding to consumer demand for alternative proteins
How Investors Can Effectively Select an Investment Manager to Measure ESG
Here are a few preliminary steps asset owners should take when beginning the search for an investment manager that integrates ESG.
Investors Lose Patience with Companies’ Lack of Environmental Disclosure
Investors with nearly $10 trillion in assets are targeting over 700 companies that are not transparent enough about their environmental impact, and pushing them to disclose this information through CDP. This is the first time that CDP is reporting publicly on its Non-Disclosure Campaign.
SustainAccounting Launches World’s First Triple Bottom Line Certification
At the heart of the Certified TBL program is its advocacy of multicapital- and context-based Triple Bottom Line accounting, still new to most organizations but rapidly emerging as the gold standard for measurement and reporting.
Sustainability Skeptics, No More: Getting Past the Three Walls
Cross-Posted from Business Case. You’re sitting across from the decision-maker for a large potential sustainability project. It’s taken months, possibly years, to get here. If your numbers look good, the decision is much more likely to be a positive one for you, for them and for the world.
SASB, CDSB Partner on How-To Guide for Climate-Related Disclosures
Sustainability standards setters release implementation guide for complying with TCFD recommendations for communicating about climate-related financial risk.
Prudential Pledges $180M to Promote Financial Wellness for Opportunity Youth
Largest private sector investment to date will prepare next generation of global workforce with education and training, build financially stable communities and help break the cycle of poverty.
The Win-Win of JUST Jobs: Higher ROE When Companies Disclose Workplace Policies
Human capital issues increasingly important area for corporate leadership, as market participants call for greater transparency.
ESG Evaluation Tool Sets Holistic Benchmark for Sustainability Performance
New market offering seeks to improve transparency, disclosure and private-sector engagement with rising environmental, social and governance risk concerns.
BofA Commits $300 Billion by 2030 to Low-Carbon, Sustainable Business
Bank’s third environmental commitment is designed to advance solutions to issues aligned with the SDGs — including sustainable energy and transportation, climate resiliency, clean water and sanitation.
Wisdom Fund Aims to Close Lending Gap for Women
New impact investment vehicle provides funding to underserved women of color and low-income women entrepreneurs across the US.
Values-Based Investment Platform COIN Offers Portfolios Aligned with SDGs
Backed by John Hancock, COIN offers customers eight Impact Areas to invest in with as little as $50.
Mastercard, Doconomy Launch the Future of Sustainable Payments
DO is a free, easy-to-use mobile banking service that lets users track, understand and reduce their CO2 footprints through carbon offsetting.
CPG Transparency Platform Now Incentivizes Consumers to Choose Sustainable Products
Almond, a groundbreaking economic framework that aims to tackle the world of sustainable consumer goods, rewards those who make an effort to purchase sustainable products and help to combat cheap consumer goods.
Clif Bar Ag Fund to Help Organic Farmers Weather Economic Challenges
The Clif Ag Fund will help increase the economic resilience of organic farmers in Clif’s supply chain — including lower energy costs from day one.