Emily Chasan
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It’s the busiest proxy season ever, but shareholders are voting carefully
The 2022 proxy season is the busiest ever, with shareholders set to vote on a flurry of new environmental and social proposals. It is also a turning point for shareholders hoping to push companies on ESG, as more ambitious shareholder proposals meet concerns about the global economy.
A clean energy jobs gut check
Reprinted from GreenFin Weekly, a free weekly newsletter. Subscribe here. For stock market traders, the U.S. Department of Labor’s monthly jobs report is usually the biggest event of the month. Waiting for that number the first Friday of every month is like getting the results of a blood pressure test at the doctor’s office. You have a feeling on how the economy is going, but you aren’t completely sure until you see the real-world numbers underneath.
A record-breaking, angst-filled proxy year
Reprinted from GreenFin Weekly, a free weekly newsletter. Subscribe here. There has never been a proxy season like 2021. As annual meeting season hit this year, shareholders were collectively louder as a group and more willing than ever before to say that they disagree with where companies are heading. Here are the numbers: Proxy Preview counted a record 34 shareholder proposals that won majority backing this year, shattering last year’s record of 21 proposals that received majority support.
How circular thinking could ease inflation
Reprinted from GreenFin Weekly, a free weekly newsletter. Subscribe here. Climate issues almost always have been thought of by the financial markets as long-term, but that might just not be true anymore. The sudden success of traditional short-term activist strategies to press corporate boardrooms on climate, the success of SPACs and the trillions of dollars flowing into clean energy and infrastructure right now are a sign that the market’s time horizon on climate issues is moving up.
Why needless growth isn’t needed
"Stop investing in companies that explore for needless new drilling sites — they’re wasting their money and ours." That’s what Deborah Silvey, president of Fossil Free California, told the board of CalPERS, the largest U.S. public pension fund, at a meeting more than two years ago. It seems pretty prescient now. I was reminded of that meeting this week as the International Energy Agency warned that we’re actually completely out of time for oil and gas exploration.
Climate risk and the high cost of waiting
Climate Finance by Emily Chasan | May 04, 2021 The flurry of corporate and government commitments around Earth Day and the Biden Climate Summit shows the urgency of moving more quickly. The following article originally appeared on GreenBiz.com as part of our partnership with GreenBiz Group, a media and events company that accelerates the just transition to a clean economy.
Climate risk and the high cost of waiting
One of the hallmarks of working in sustainable finance is seeing that every decision you make has an impact, sometimes years into the future when that original decision feels like a distant memory. It’s that realization that drives some fundamental questions throughout sustainable finance. What does it mean to have a 30-year mortgage in a flood, storm or fire zone? What’s the value of opening a coal plant today when the economic and social cost of operating it is so much higher than alternatives?
Climate accountability reaches the CFO suite
Reprinted from GreenFin Weekly, a free weekly newsletter. Subscribe here. It started with intangibles. I spent about a decade of my life writing about corporate accounting before I began focusing on sustainability and sustainable finance. In between all the conversations on accounting for stock options and leases, one megatrend in corporate accounting beat them all: the rise of intangible assets.
Seeking portfolio alignment in a climate solutions world
Reprinted from GreenFin Weekly, a free weekly newsletter. Subscribe here. Investors are collectively sitting on one of the biggest piles of cash of all time — nearly $5 trillion in money market funds known as “the wall of cash.” It’s a bizarre phenomenon after a year-long global pandemic that stalled economies around the world and highlighted social divisions — but the cash is still there.
What comes after climate risk?
Reprinted from GreenFin Weekly, a free weekly newsletter. Subscribe here. The climate risk era on Wall Street could be ending before it’s barely even begun. As capital has flown into ESG strategies over the past few years, the financial community has quickly grown better than it has been at recognizing the risks of climate change.
Global Warming, Paris and a Stark Trump-Biden Divide
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ESG scores aren’t enough to achieve a net-zero future
Your Name: Your Email: Send Email To: Keep this field blank Investors are increasingly asking companies to do climate scenario planning. By Emily Chasan, Bloomberg 6 Sep 2020 00:19 Just like in traditional investing, there are dozens of strategies you can use to be an ESG investor.
Jeff Tannenbaum Bets on Kinder Capitalism, Even for LBOs
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Inversiones ESG: el reto de resolver problemas y evitar riesgos
A medida que crece la inversión ESG, una pregunta clave para los inversores será si la estrategia puede ser tan buena como para resolver los problemas más urgentes del mundo y, a su vez, evitar riesgos. ¿Qué más leer? IBEX 35. Examen al ESG: responden Telefónica, el Santander y Repsol En un mundo actualmente definido por la pandemia de coronavirus, las estrategias ESG han demostrado ser muy buenas para evitar riesgos.
Walmart Cut 230 Million Tons of Emissions, With Supplier Help
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Calling For ESG Strategies Based on Solutions, Not Safety
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Corporate sustainability reporting is growing up
Your Name: Your Email: Send Email To: Keep this field blank Sustainability information companies provided up until now has rarely been comparable. Emily Chasan, Bloomberg 22 Aug 2020 00:32 Sustainability reporting is quickly going mainstream. While companies aren’t always required by regulators to report their greenhouse gas emissions, human rights records and wastewater management, investors are pushing them for this information at a faster clip.
Corporate Sustainability Reporting Is Growing Up
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Long-term investors now hold sway over ESG
Your Name: Your Email: Send Email To: Keep this field blank One-day issues have suddenly become the subject of short-term focus. Emily Chasan, Bloomberg 15 Aug 2020 00:01 Whether the engagement process is fast enough remains to be seen. Image: Bartek Sadowski, Bloomberg Long-term investors – those who have perpetually flagged the kind of systemic and workforce issues that now face companies everywhere – are having an outsized influence during this global crisis.
Schneider Electric, Investors Push to Speed Up U.S. Microgrids
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Long-Term Investors Now Hold Sway Over ESG
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Long-term investors now hold sway over ESG
Long-term investors—those who have perpetually flagged the kind of systemic and workforce issues that now face companies everywhere—are having an outsized influence during this global crisis. Part of that is the surge in interest in ESG investing. UBS this week said it saw flows to ESG funds and pandemic bonds of more than US$71 billion in the second quarter, bringing industry ESG assets under management to US$1 trillion for the first time.
AppHarvest raises more cash for world’s biggest greenhouse
In a bid to push more sustainable production into the US food system, hedge funder-turned impact investor Jeff Ubben is backing agricultural technology greenhouse start-up AppHarvest in his first deal since leaving ValueAct Capital Management in June to launch a new firm, Inclusive Capital. AppHarvest, which is planning to open the world’s largest greenhouse in autumn — on a nearly 150ha patch of land near Morehead, Kentucky — raised $28m in a Series C funding round, it announced on Thursday.
Solving America’s Big Green Mortgage Dilemma
Aug 05 2020, 3:30 PMAug 05 2020, 3:45 PMAugust 05 2020, 3:30 PMAugust 05 2020, 3:45 PM
Next Impossible Burger? Investors pour $1.4 billion into lab-grown meat, microbial protein development
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Mining Rare Earths for a Renewable Future
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Mining Rare Earths for a Renewable Future
Article content By Emily Chasan (Bloomberg) — Metals and mining are a critical part of the future of clean energy, and that’s triggering major shifts in a historically dirty industry. Mined materials such as nickel, cobalt, copper, lithium, gold and rare earths are an integral part of wind turbines as well as electric grids and vehicles. They even power some of the digital technologies allowing many people to work from home.
Venture investors double their bets on faux meat startups
Synopsis This year’s biggest funding deals included Beyond Meat rival Impossible Foods Inc., which raised $500 million to support expansion of its vegan burgers, and Swedish oat-milk maker Oatly AB, which raised $200 million this month in a deal backed by Blackstone Group Inc. that values the company at $2 billion. Faux meat has been flying off the grocery shelves amid concerns about meat processing and the coronavirus. Plant-based meat purchases rose 264% this year.
Venture Investors Double Their Bets on Faux Meat Startups
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Now everyone can make their wallet greener
By Bloomberg Jul 22, 2020 By Emily Chasan The next frontier in sustainable finance is literally in your wallet. While we’ve seen $30 trillion in assets flow into sustainable investing, everything else, from consumer spending to credit cards and traditional banking, represents a bigger piece of the ESG pie. The issue goes beyond figuring out how green everyday purchases are: Now, it’s about what kind of future your bank deposits and credit cards are financing.
Now Everyone Can Make Their Wallet Greener
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Target, Walmart, CVS team up to get rid of plastic bags
Emily Chasan, Bloomberg Published 5:30 am PDT, Tuesday, July 21, 2020 A pedestrian holding a Target Corp. shopping bag uses a mobile phone in San Francisco on Feb. 26, 2020. A pedestrian holding a Target Corp. shopping bag uses a mobile phone in San Francisco on Feb. 26, 2020. Photo: Bloomberg Photo By David Paul Morris Photo: Bloomberg Photo By David Paul Morris Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 A pedestrian holding a Target Corp. shopping bag uses a mobile phone in San Francisco on Feb.
Low-Methane Meat Has Finally Arrived Original
Low-Methane Meat Has Finally Arrived
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Low-methane meat has finally arrived
Low-methane meat is a thing now. Earlier this week, fast-food chain Burger King unveiled a climate-friendly burger it plans to offer in some U.S. locations. The limited-supply meat comes from cows that are fed lemongrass to reduce the atmospheric impact of their methane-laden belches. It’s an early move in what may become a race to put low-carbon labels on meat.
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