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BlackRock moves on natural capital

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... asset, not an externality. Traditionally, environmental factors like water, land, and biodiversity were seen as externalities - important, yet separate from financial models. BlackRock is now treating these as natural capital assets that contribute directly ...

Prime role for AI in impact decisions

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... discipline", targeted environmental impact requires a "systems-based" understanding of social and environmental externalities. "It requires a theory of change that links inputs such as capital and strategy, with intent to achieve outputs such as financial ...

Tracking nature: finance lags on biodiversity

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... we wouldn't be where we are. And we would not have the situation which we have, which is that we are not pricing externalities properly," Kukuljan said. "As long as abusing nature is seen as a profitable business, and unsustainable practices are not ...

Preparing to take advantage of the critical mineral story

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... clients to think about in particular, there's a lot of focus on climate ad the transition, but let's think about the externalities in taking a silent approach," Yoon said. Although regulation and challenges like greenwashing are a high area of focus ...

Could the anti-woke movement take hold in Australia?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... backlash, panellists agreed. "Our framing has to be fiduciary responsibility, materiality, how we look at and price externalities. We need to make sure we speak to language of investments and ESG as a long-term value creator. "The economy should serve ...

Amundi launches suite of Net Zero funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... feasibility of their decarbonization targets, using a "proprietary methodology that places a cost value on carbon 'externalities'" based on environmental capital. "Environmental Capital adjusts the company's assumed Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) ...

ESG strong factor in M&A activity: PwC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... requires active intervention in the business. This is where they're taking reviews, proactively mitigating negative externalities, and that secures the value of the investment that they've made." A third category are investors who believe that doing ...

Deep engagement to follow SSGA CEO letter to directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... longer have a seat at the table with private equity. But our clients are disproportionately exposed to the negative externalities of carbon emissions. It's a public cost and a private benefit."

Greenwashing a challenge to sustainable investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... company with an invoice at the end of the year, reflecting the costs or benefits they have created for society, externalities that essentially have yet to reach their balance sheet," she said. "To do this, we will assess companies across various measures ...

Integrating the circular economy into investment strategies: American Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... material issue. "The importance of building a circular economy is that not only does it have the benefit of reducing externalities, it also creates new economic growth for consumers, businesses and economies at large," Zhang said. "That is a way to think ...
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