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...A $95.2bn Massachusetts state pension fund voted last week to change the name of its ESG Committee to the Stewardship and Sustainability Committee....
...“The House vote underscores the fading influence of China’s corporate champions in Washington,” said Craig Singleton, a China expert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies....
...The MethaneSAT satellite was announced by the Environmental Defense Fund six years ago as a way to monitor releases of methane, an invisible gas that researchers estimate is responsible for almost a third...
...Andrew Baxter, an energy director at the Environmental Defense Fund, said the OGCI initiative is important because it combines satellite detection with peer-to-peer engagement and technical and financial...
...On Friday, it abruptly announced the addition of 12 women to its organising committee — having drawn criticism for its earlier 28-strong, all-male line-up....
...The global environmental protection organisation lists the American horseshoe crab as “vulnerable”....
...That was a point made this week by Dave Ramsden, the deputy governor for markets and banking at the Bank of England, when he told the Treasury select committee that Brexit had clearly “chilled” the UK’s...
...The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist party, led by Reps....
...Joe Vukovich, of the Natural Resources Defense Council environmental group, accused the industry of taking a “scorched earth” approach....
...“We need a win,” said Lisa Speer, director of the International Oceans Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council....
...Subjects included environmental, social and governance standards and digital transformation....
...Texas legislators have excused Vanguard from being grilled on its practices at a hearing on environmental, social and governance investment factors, a week after the asset management giant quit the main...
...A project spearheaded by the Environmental Defense Fund, MethaneSAT, is scheduled to put another methane-detecting satellite into space later this year....
...BlackRock and Vanguard’s statements on Tuesday were in response to a request by the UK’s Environmental Audit Committee....
...Washington said the company was “owned and controlled” by Prigozhin and served as “as a cover for Wagner forces operating in Sudan”, which it called “a designated Russian Ministry of Defense proxy force”...
..., which has the same make-up as the compensation committee....
...“It ultimately does no good for society or for business to have policies that radically yin and yang back and forth,” said Mark Brownstein, senior vice-president of energy at the Environmental Defense Fund...
...The Environmental Defense Fund, for example, used to be known for splashy lawsuits hauling big businesses to court....
...One thing to start: BlackRock continues to find itself over a barrel with regards to its environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment policies....
...Generally perceived then as “‘nice to have”, the charter enabled the firm to remain ahead of the curve as environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles became more widely embraced....
...New “mandatory criteria” would bar countries that violate human rights or fail to enforce environmental laws....
...The information dump comes right ahead of a Senate Banking Committee hearing about index fund voting....
...Six members of the 10-person management committee personally run money, highlighting the power of the investment team....
...Continental’s board on Tuesday said it “intends to establish a special committee consisting of independent directors of the board to consider the proposal”, and that the offer was not binding....
...Environmental groups had also seen the index change as a sign that S&P Global agreed that burning wood for energy was not “clean”. Drax, however, interpreted the index change quite differently....
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