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US Dept of Labor green-lights ESG integration

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... other ESG considerations," according to the DOL. This announcement from the DOL reversed two rules issued in 2020 under the Trump administration that constrained plan fiduciaries by warning them against integrating ESG and climate change factors on the ...

Investment in low-carbon energy infrastructure on the rise

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... Renewable and Sustainable Energy and Infrastructure practices at Vinson & Elkins. "You don't see any slowdown during the Trump administration, and this trajectory of building at pace in commercial and industrial and, wind, utility scale solar continues ...

APAC investors ahead of North America on climate action: PGIM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... that stuck out is the fact that regulatory regimes are quite different." Klausner pointed to the chilling effect of the Trump-era Department of Labor issuing a memo to ERISA-regulated pension funds - predominately corporate pension funds - warning them ...

Biden inauguration brings climate challenge for Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... that the US will step up in its commitments to decarbonise its economy as with other participants. Former President Donald Trump had removed the US from the Paris Agreement. The return of the US to the Paris Agreement process means that approximately ...

Climate change, SDG impacts of US election

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... others, Petersen said. Petersen cited specific commitments that Biden has made to roll back decisions made by President Donald Trump, as well as a new tone in foreign relations, but Petersen also noted that the language deployed by Biden around economics ...

Considering potential ESG implications of the US election

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... turn the balance towards Democratic candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden and away from re-electing President Donald Trump, but the ultimate vote tally has not been finalised as of publication. As of publication, the Republican Party looked on track ...

Northern Trust outlines social, environmental challenges to road ahead

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... inequality, how it's hampering economic growth, how it's the force behind impactful political changes such as the Brexit vote, Trump's 2016 victory, etc." "The more we thought about it, and the more we realised that it's not just about a change in the ...

Questions raised over governance implications of share buyback schemes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... overall," but that conclusion may be revised in light of the current economic crisis impacted by the health pandemic. After the Trump administration signed into law legislative package of tax cuts, including cuts to the corporate tax rate in 2017, there ...

Core Civic, GEO Group flagged for ESG controversies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
Core Civic and GEO Group, two companies at the heart of an organised grassroots campaign against US President Donald Trump's policy of immigrant detention, have been flagged for controversies under MSCI 's ESG ratings system. For the US grassroots groups ...

US activists target banks over finance to for-profit prisons, detention centres

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
A coalition of more than 80 US-based grassroots organisations are protesting US President Donald Trump's policy of immigrant detention through a campaign targeting banks JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo for providing debt financing for two for-profit ...