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The future of ESGtech: Goal 5 - Gender equality
Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Reporter at Finextra

The future of ESGtech: Goal 5 - Gender equality

Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. This is an extract from Finextra's The Future of ESGTech 2022 report. Focus Target 5.5: Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life. Financial institutions have the potential to...

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The future of ESGtech: Goal 4 - Quality education
Paige McNamee

Paige McNamee Senior Reporter at Finextra

The future of ESGtech: Goal 4 - Quality education

Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. This is an extract from Finextra's The Future of ESGTech 2022 report. Focus Target 4.b: By 2020, substantially expand globally the number of scholarships available to developing countries, in particular least developed countries, small island deve...

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The future of ESGTech: Goal 3 - Good health and wellbeing
Níamh Curran

Níamh Curran Senior Reporter at Finextra

The future of ESGTech: Goal 3 - Good health and wellbeing

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. This is an extract from Finextra's The Future of ESGTech 2022 report. Focus Target 3.c: Substantially increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce in developing countries, especially in least developed countries and small ...

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The future of ESGtech: Goal 2 - Zero hunger
Madhvi Mavadiya

Madhvi Mavadiya Head of Content at Finextra

The future of ESGtech: Goal 2 - Zero hunger

End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. This is an extract from Finextra's The Future of ESGTech 2022 report. Focus Target 2.3: By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fish...

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Innovation in service: Supercharging Jersey’s sustainable finance offering
Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Reporter at Finextra

Innovation in service: Supercharging Jersey’s sustainable finance offering

Keen to meet growing investor demands for transparency on the impact of their portfolios, private wealth managers and fund administration firms are increasingly utilising technology-based sustainable finance solutions to upscale their ESG practice. There are, however, some key challenges that need to be addressed, such as: how do we quantify these ...

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The future of ESGtech: Goal 1 - No poverty
Madhvi Mavadiya

Madhvi Mavadiya Head of Content at Finextra

The future of ESGtech: Goal 1 - No poverty

End poverty in all its forms everywhere. This is an extract from Finextra's The Future of ESGTech 2022 report. Focus Target 1.4: By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property...

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Fixing finance from the ground up: The fight for afforestation
Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Reporter at Finextra

Fixing finance from the ground up: The fight for afforestation

Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest just hit its highest level in over 15 years, despite Brazil – along with 100 other world leaders – promising to end deforestation by 2030, at Glasgow’s Climate Summit, COP26. According to official data from Brazil's space research agency, Inpe, 13,235 sq km has been lost during the 2020-21 period. This rate o...

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A "wall of capital" — and a watershed moment for the transition to net zero
Simon Kent

Simon Kent Global Head of Financial Services at Kearney

A "wall of capital" — and a watershed moment for the transition to net zero

COP26 was not short on big announcements—and the Finance Day, Wednesday 3rd November, was one of the biggest. Holding aloft a green budget box, UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak stated that the 450 banks, insurers, pension funds, and assets managers that make up the Glasgow Financial Alliance of Net Zero (GFANZ) have pledged to put the fight against clima...

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Busting sustainable finance myths: Why Tariq Fancy is only half right on ESG, part 2
Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Reporter at Finextra

Busting sustainable finance myths: Why Tariq Fancy is only half right on ESG, part 2

Blackrock’s former sustainable investing chief, Tariq Fancy, has made nine key claims against the environmental, social and governance (ESG) movement. While the ensuing discussion has shone a light into some of the asset management industry’s darkest corners, there are some myopic myths that need to be busted. Finextra, alongside founder of Respon...

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COP26: Why a data commons is needed to secure net zero commitments
Richard Peers

Richard Peers Founder at ResponsibleRisk Ltd

COP26: Why a data commons is needed to secure net zero commitments

We don’t have time for everyone to build their own financial and non-financial data aggregation platforms in order to facilitate capital allocation. Open-source collaboration could be the answer. At COP26 in Glasgow, I was invited to be the master of ceremonies for an event hosted by Federated Hermes’ Daniel Godfrey, and delivered by OS-Climate. ...

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Sustainable finance: Delivering meaningful change requires operational change
Christopher Farrell

Christopher Farrell COO at FINBOURNE

Sustainable finance: Delivering meaningful change requires operational change

With COP26 coming to a close, there has been much discussion, debate and pledging on how we can decarbonise, to create a net zero world. And while the G20, which accounts for 80% of the world economy must set the lead, it is clear that every country needs to take action to mitigate its own impact, including those with the biggest carbon footprint,...

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Sustainable finance: how can banks and fintechs make greener customer decisions?
Retired Member

Retired Member

Sustainable finance: how can banks and fintechs make greener customer decisions?

Consumers and regulators are increasingly looking for organisations to reduce their social and environmental footprints. Now banks and fintechs must ask themselves what they can do to help. COP26 shouldn’t be the motivator, but it might just provide the high profile prompt for some to make necessary change. Earlier this year Rishi Sunak gave clear...

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