SustainabilityHQ.com Weekly Highlights

Highlighting the top news, commentary, and research for the week coming from SHQ. The highlights newsletter also spotlights one profiled organization and their recent activity as monitored by SHQ.

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Events, Media & Communications

Invest or Divest in Oil, Gas & Coal Companies? - State & City Pension Plans Are the Battleground
Consider the influence of the public sector employee retirement systems in the capital markets: the almost 6,000 pension plans cover about 15 million workers and families and manage about $4.5 trillion in assets of various classes.

Events, Media & Communications

Fossil Fuels vs Renewables in the Race to Net Zero
The race is on, proclaims the United Nations, to create a Net Zero economy (same amount of greenhouse gas /GHG emissions removed from the atmosphere as produced).

Events, Media & Communications

“Whole of Government” Climate Approach Moving Forward With U.S. Senate Climate Bill Passage
A comprehensive legislative proposal designed to address climate change challenges and threats to the U.S. posed by global warming was passed by the U.S. Senate on August 7.

Events, Media & Communications

The Complications of Tracking Ambitious GHG Emissions Goals
Many companies are setting ambitious “Net Zero” GHG emissions goals to be reached by the Paris Climate Accord’s goal of 2050 (and some setting their goals even earlier).

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Is Your Esg Mutual Fund or ETF Really “Green” – More Disclosure May Be Coming
What is it about an investable product – a mutual fund, an exchange traded fund (ETF) –that would qualify it as an “ESG,” “green” or “sustainable” investment offering to retail or institutional investors?

Events, Media & Communications

Pushback Against ESG - What About the SEC Draft Rule?
No regulatory agency’s draft rule to address important issues can be expected to sail through and be warmly welcomed by all involved stakeholders.

Events, Media & Communications

Corporations Are Taking Steps To Address Climate Change Challenges
Remember the revisions to The Business Roundtable Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation (a mission statement) back in August 2019?

Events, Media & Communications

Fitch Incorporates Low-Carbon Transition Risks Into Credit Scores
Fitch Ratings, one of the “big three” credit risk rating agencies, is busy identifying “sector exposures to low-carbon transition risks,”

Events, Media & Communications

“It's Now or Never” on Global Warming - IPCC's Working Group III Makes Findings Public
The Sixth Assessment Report (AR65) of the United Nations Intergovernmental Report on Climate Change (IPCC) is nearing publication later this year after being delayed for two years.

Events, Media & Communications

The Wait Is Over - SEC Announces Draft Rule on Climate-Related Disclosures
The long-anticipated new rule for corporate climate change disclosures in registrations and certain periodic reports (such as 10-K filings) has been issued by the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission.

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