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Mastercard, Clothing Giants Partner to Help Garment Workers Secure Financial Futures

By partnering with companies with labor-intensive supply chains, Mastercard is creating digital solutions to give workers more control and transparency over their earnings and savings. ... View More

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With Less Than 4,000 Days to Go, Business Contribution to SDGs Falling Woefully Short

Despite some progress since the goals were launched in 2015, advancement over the past four years has been stifled due to socioeconomic, geopolitical and technological uncertainties, hindering CEOs’ sustainability efforts. ... View More

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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. ... View More

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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. ... View More

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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. ... View More

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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. ... View More

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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 ... View More

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How Investors Can Effectively Select an Investment Manager to Measure ESG

The process for evaluating an ESG manager is similar to the process an ESG fund manager uses when evaluating a company — here are a few preliminary steps asset owners should take when beginning the search for an investment manager that integrates E... View More

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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 pu... View More

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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. ... View More

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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. ... View More

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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. ... View More

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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. Current disclosure largely lacking on gender pay equity, diversity & inclusion, paid parental leave, and other polici... View More

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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. ... View More

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BofA Commits $300 Billion by 2030 to Low-Carbon, Sustainable Business

Bank of America’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. ... View More

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Wisdom Fund Aims to Close Lending Gap for Women

CNote's new impact investment vehicle provides funding to underserved women of color and low-income women entrepreneurs across the US. ... View More

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Values-Based Investment Platform COIN Offers Portfolios Aligned with SDGs

Backed by John Hancock, COIN offers customers eight Impact Areas — including Better Health, Clean Water, Gender Equality and Reducing Waste — to invest in, with as little as $50. ... View More

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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. ... View More

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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. ... View More

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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. ... View More

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