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Sovereign Bonds, Train Derailments, Green Bonds, Water Funds, and 'Woke Banking'
Here are 5 ESG insights you might have missed this week: 1. A Framework to Assess Sovereign Bond Issuers on Climate Change- Assessing...
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Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Feb 17
- 1 min
Arizona Drops Anti-ESG Rules While Florida Fights "Woke Banking"
DeSantis called it a push against “these elites” attempting to “inject political ideology into investment decisions, corporate...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Feb 17
- 1 min
Water Funds Dilute The Environmental Message
There may be an investment case for holding them, but it’s not obvious they are saving the planet. The investors who penned the open...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Feb 17
- 1 min
After the Ohio Train Derailment: Evacuations, Toxic Chemicals and Water Worries
When a train derailed in the village of East Palestine this month, it set off evacuation orders, a chemical scare and a federal...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Feb 17
- 1 min
Green Bonds, Empty Promises
Law professors Quinn Curtis, Mark Weidemaier and Mitu Gulati examined almost 1,000 green bond prospectuses over the past decade. Utilizing...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Feb 17
- 1 min
A Framework to Assess Sovereign Bond Issuers on Climate Change
Assessing Sovereign Climate-related Opportunities and Risks (ASCOR) is a framework to assess sovereign bond issuers on climate change....
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- Feb 12
- 3 min
UK's FCA, State of the Union, Shell, IEA, and Climate Migrants
Here are 5 ESG insights you might have missed this week: 1. UK's FCA- Finance for Positive Sustainable Change- We are asking for views on...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Feb 12
- 1 min
Has The ESG Train Left The Station?
Regardless of whether you are of the red or blue political stripe, public opinion, private capital, human capital, government capital and...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Feb 12
- 1 min
IEA's Electricity Market Report 2023
China will account for one-third of global power use in 2025, up from one-quarter in 2015, per the International Energy Agency's latest...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Feb 12
- 1 min
What Biden's State of the Union Said About Climate
Biden's State of the Union defines climate action as common sense "It’s an issue of values, one “we have an obligation to our children and...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Feb 10
- 1 min
Shell’s Board of Directors Sued Over ‘Flawed’ Climate Strategy in First-of-its-Kind Lawsuit
Shell’s board of directors are being personally sued over their alleged failure to properly manage risks associated with the climate...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Feb 10
- 1 min
UK's FCA- Finance for Positive Sustainable Change
We are asking for views on sustainability-related governance, incentives and competence in regulated firms. This Discussion Paper also...
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- Feb 4
- 3 min
EU's Green Deal, Jigar Shah, Gut Feel, Gulf Exchanges, and Singapore's Solar Panels
Here are 5 ESG insights you might have missed this week: 1. EU's Green Deal- Europe beefs up Green Deal in response to Biden’s climate...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Feb 4
- 1 min
Solar City: The Surprising Places You Will Find Solar Panels in Singapore
Singapore is now one of the most solar-dense cities in the world. Where are all these panels? They are on schools, petrol stations and...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Feb 4
- 1 min
Gulf Exchanges Announce Unified ESG Metrics for GCC Listed Companies
The metrics include 29 standards that are aligned with the World Federation of Exchanges and Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative. The...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Feb 4
- 1 min
Alex Edmans New Paper: Applying Economics – Not Gut Feel – To ESG
The urgency of ESG leads us to apply gut feel to some of the world's most pressing issues, since we can't wait for academic research to...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Feb 4
- 1 min
The Man in Charge of How the US Spends $400bn to Shift Away from Fossil Fuels
The Department of Energy’s loan programs office was ‘essentially dormant’, says Jigar Shah, its head – but now it’s ready to bankroll ...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Feb 4
- 1 min
EU's Green Deal
Europe beefs up Green Deal in response to Biden’s climate subsidies. While there was praise for the U.S. effort to close the yawning gap...
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- Jan 21
- 3 min
US Fed's Climate Scenario Analysis, Exxon, Anti/Pro Davos, and O&G Football Flex
Here are 5 ESG insights you might have missed this week: 1. US Fed's Pilot Climate Scenario Analysis- The US Federal Reserve Board has...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Jan 21
- 1 min
Pro-Davos: New Initiative to Help Unlock $3 Trillion Needed a Year for Climate and Nature
Philanthropic heavyweights and other partners unveiled a new push to vastly scale up combined public, private and philanthropic climate...
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