/PRNewswire/ - In May 2020, BMO Financial Group (TSX: BMO) (NYSE: BMO) became the first major bank in Canada to sign the International Finance Corporation.
Who the president is matters to sustainable investing.
One hundred days into Joe Biden’s presidency, his administration’s executive orders and agency actions have reinstated and advanced an environment that empowers sustainable investing. President Biden has also assembled a strong climate-change team and bestowed significant authority on it, including establishing a new White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy, headed by Gina McCarthy, and appointing former Secretary of State John Kerry to the U.S. National Security Council as special presidential envoy for climate.
All of this sets our children and grandchildren and wildlife up for a more secure future but threats to sustainable investing remain.
Posted on April 14, 2021
UNDP and GISD Alliance Launch ‘SDG Investor Platform’ to unlock trillions on SDG-Aligned Investment Globally
The platform enables investors to leverage on-the-ground data and insights from UNDP’s country offices
SDG Investor Maps is a unique tool that allows investors to identify the impact/sustainability areas that, combined with high return, can be game-changers in their portfolio. Photo: UNDP
New York - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN Secretary-General’s Global Investors for Sustainable Development (GISD) Alliance today launched the ‘SDG Investor Platform,’ an innovative tool to facilitate private sector investments that contribute to furthering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
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GRI and SASB reporting ‘complement each other’
SASBApril 8, 2021 GMT
San Francisco and Amsterdam, April 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Joint research from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) explores the experiences of companies that use the two sets of standards together to fulfil their reporting needs.
A Practical Guide to Sustainability Reporting Using GRI and SASB Standards is based on extensive interviews with four global companies: UK-based Diageo, City Developments Limited (CDL) of Singapore, US-headquartered General Motors (GM), and Canada’s Suncor Energy. All four are long-term GRI reporters that now also report with SASB. Their insights are supplemented by survey findings with 132 business representatives around the word.
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