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Bella Alvarez published Weekly News Round-Up: January 4, 2024 in Weekly News Round-Ups 2024-01-31 13:02:16 -0500
Weekly News Round-Up: January 4, 2024
We’re excited to have Dr. Michael L. Lomax, President and CEO of UNCF, as a keynote speaker for our 2024 Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit! Secure your spot today to learn from Dr. Lomax's thought leadership and connect with peers
IEN Members, the 2023 year-end survey is still open. Please share your insights to help us refine our programming and enter the raffle to win a free ticket to the 2024 Summit!
In this week’s news, Virginia universities contribute billions to climate-friendly investments, governance takes center stage in 2024, and New York City Retirement Systems put $10.5 billion toward climate solutions in FY2023.
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Bella Alvarez published Weekly News Round-Up: December 21, 2023 in Weekly News Round-Ups 2024-01-31 13:02:14 -0500
Weekly News Round-Up: December 21, 2023
As we approach the end of the year, we want to reflect on the successes of 2023 and look forward to the exciting opportunities that await us in 2024! We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to our staff, interns, funders, sponsors, and Network members for their unwavering support throughout the year.
Please note that our offices will be closed from December 22nd through January 1st so our team can spend quality time with their loved ones during the holidays.
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Bella Alvarez published Weekly News Round-Up: December 14, 2023 in Weekly News Round-Ups 2024-01-31 13:02:11 -0500
Weekly News Round-Up: December 14, 2023
As we approach the end of 2023, we value your insights and invite you to participate in our annual Survey and enter a raffle to win a free ticket to the 2024 Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit! We appreciate your time and commitment is improving our community.
As a reminder, early bird registration for the 2024 Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit is closing tomorrow! Secure your spot now to connect with engaging thought leaders and build solidarity for climate justice.
In this week’s news, TIIP releases a new report on (re)calibrating feedback loops, IEN Member UNCF stages a revival, and a deal is struck at COP28 to transition away from fossil fuels.
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Bella Alvarez published Weekly News Round-Up: December 7, 2023 in Weekly News Round-Ups 2024-01-31 13:02:10 -0500
Weekly News Round-Up: December 7, 2023
We are excited to announce that we will be celebrating our 10th anniversary in the upcoming year! We invite you to mark your calendar for our 10th-anniversary gala dinner on April 11, 2024, at the Museum of Science in Boston, MA.
Also, join us for the last Net Zero call of the year, featuring Lombard Odier Asset Management on December 20 at 2 pm ET, to get insights on climate solutions via investment vehicles in various asset classes. We will also host info sessions for the Student Corporate Engagement Challenge on December 12 and 14. Students are invited to attend.
In this week’s news, the Church of England Pensions Board releases its first climate action plan, the University of Toronto is named the most sustainable university in the world, and Moody’s says $4 trillion of debt is exposed to environmental risks.
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Bella Alvarez published 13 University Teams to Participate in Challenge Focused on Addressing Systemic Risk and Increasing Returns Through Shareholder Engagement in Blog 2024-01-30 14:30:08 -0500
13 University Teams to Participate in Challenge Focused on Addressing Systemic Risk and Increasing Returns Through Shareholder Engagement
Undergraduate and graduate students from Cornell University, Columbia University, Bard College, Shenandoah University, University of Michigan, Felix Houphouet-Boigny University, Hampton University, Virginia Wesleyan University, Central Washington University, Smith College, University of Southern California, University of Minnesota, and the University of California Berkeley Haas to compete in the IEN Student Corporate Engagement Challenge.
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Bella Alvarez published Climate Solutions Series: Community Solar + the Middle Market | Aligned Climate Capital in Events & Webinars 2024-01-30 09:38:10 -0500
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Bella Alvarez published IEN 2024 Climate Solutions Series: Community Solar – The Middle Market of the US Solar Industry with Aligned Climate Capital in Climate Solutions Series: Community Solar + the Middle Market | Aligned Climate Capital 2024-01-30 09:38:05 -0500
IEN 2024 Climate Solutions Series: Community Solar – The Middle Market of the US Solar Industry with Aligned Climate Capital
June 25, 2024 | 2 pm ET
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IEN’s climate solutions series will focus on opportunities for direct, high-impact investment in climate solutions. Each conversation in this interactive series will focus on a manager or group with a perspective in the market, giving them an opportunity to share their work, what they’re seeing in the space, and explore the range of what’s possible.
The June 2024 convening will feature perspectives from Aligned Climate Capital. Community solar is a rapidly growing segment of the US solar industry that allows any electricity customer to benefit from the cost savings of solar power. This ‘middle market’ of solar offers mission-aligned investors a unique opportunity to invest in cash-yield infrastructure assets that achieve climate benefits, job creation, and local economic development. Aligned Climate Capital has been investing in this sector since 2017 and will share an overview of the market, the options available to investors, and upcoming trends based upon new programs established by the Inflation Reduction Act.This series is open to IEN Members only, and is a part of IEN's Net Zero Endowments Initiative. To learn more about the initiative or to join, please contact Aicha Ly at [email protected].
Register Today Speaker:
Brendan Bell, Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director, Aligned Climate Capital LLC
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Bella Alvarez published Climate Solutions Series: Sunwealth in Events & Webinars 2024-01-29 13:15:54 -0500
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Bella Alvarez published IEN 2024 Climate Solutions Series: Sunwealth in Climate Solutions Series: Sunwealth 2024-01-29 13:15:27 -0500
IEN 2024 Climate Solutions Series: Sunwealth
May 22, 2024 | 2 pm ET
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IEN’s climate solutions series will focus on opportunities for direct, high-impact investment in climate solutions. Each conversation in this interactive series will focus on a manager or group with a perspective in the market, giving them an opportunity to share their work, what they’re seeing in the space, and explore the range of what’s possible.
The May 2024 convening will feature perspectives from Sunwealth, a clean energy investment firm. Sunwealth finances and manages solar projects that benefit diverse communities through clean power, carbon reduction, cost savings and job creation.
This series is open to IEN Members only, and is a part of IEN's Net Zero Endowments Initiative. To learn more about the initiative or to join, please contact Aicha Ly at [email protected].
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Bella Alvarez published Investment Governance Initiative Q3 Call in Events & Webinars 2024-01-23 11:20:32 -0500
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Bella Alvarez published Investment Governance Initiative Q3 Call | May 7, 2024 | 2 pm ET in Investment Governance Initiative Q3 Call 2024-01-23 11:19:35 -0500
Investment Governance Initiative Q3 Call | May 7, 2024 | 2 pm ET
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IEN's Investment Governance Initiative supports endowment fiduciaries in developing the tools needed to provide the leadership, stewardship, and governance to ensure their portfolios and institutions are positioned to have their investment practices reflect their mission while meeting the endowment’s risk and return objectives. This call will expand on the initiative's work around systems level investing with perspectives from The Investment Integration Project (TIIP).
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Bella Alvarez published Climate Solutions Series: Public Companies & the Transition | Terra Alpha in Events & Webinars 2024-01-17 13:18:12 -0500
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Bella Alvarez published IEN 2024 Climate Solutions Series: Can public companies lead the transition to a low-carbon economy? | Terra Alpha in Climate Solutions Series: Public Companies & the Transition | Terra Alpha 2024-01-17 13:17:50 -0500
IEN 2024 Climate Solutions Series: Can public companies lead the transition to a low-carbon economy? | Terra Alpha
April 24 | 1 pm ET
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IEN’s climate solutions series will focus on opportunities for direct, high-impact investment in climate solutions. Each conversation in this interactive series will focus on a manager or group with a perspective in the market, giving them an opportunity to share their work, what they’re seeing in the space, and explore the range of what’s possible.
The April 2024 call will feature perspectives from IEN Member Terra Alpha, who will focus on the role of public companies in the energy transition. Part of Terra Alpha's work is to identify companies leading the climate transition to a sustainable economy, emphasizing key metrics like the Science-Based Targets Portfolio Coverage.
This series is open to IEN Members only and is a part of IEN's Net Zero Endowments Initiative. To learn more about the initiative or to join, please contact Aicha Ly at [email protected].
Register Today Speakers:
Dan Sanborn, CFA, Partner, Director of Investment Data & Research, Terra Alpha Investments
Julianna Brunini, CFA, Senior Investment Analyst, Director of Research
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Bella Alvarez published IEN 2024 Climate Solutions Series: Infrastructure Investing for Climate Solutions | I Squared Capital in Past Webinars 2024-01-12 14:54:45 -0500
IEN 2024 Climate Solutions Series: Infrastructure Investing for Climate Solutions | I Squared Capital
March 28, 2024 | 11 am ET
IEN’s climate solutions series will focus on opportunities for direct, high-impact investment in climate solutions. Each conversation in this interactive series will focus on a manager or group with a perspective in the market, giving them an opportunity to share their work, what they’re seeing in the space, and explore the range of what’s possible.
I Squared is a leading infrastructure investment firm that seeks to deliver innovative and practical solutions that drive results and shape our future, meeting today’s challenges for a better tomorrow. Since inception, I Squared has owned and developed over 5,800MW of renewable energy capacity.
The call's speaker was Damian Darragh, Fund Partner for the Firm’s Energy Transition Infrastructure strategy. Prior to his current role, Damian was the Founder of the UK’s largest flexible generation platform and I Squared portfolio company, Conrad Energy.
Damian spoke to how technological advancement, including battery storage, is providing critical intermittency solutions and how geopolitical tensions and legislative initiatives, including the Inflation Reduction Act, are accelerating renewable adoption across Europe and the United States.
This series is open to IEN Members only, and is a part of IEN's Net Zero Endowments Initiative. To learn more about the initiative or to join, please contact Aicha Ly at [email protected].
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Speaker:
Damian Darragh, Fund Partner, I Squared
Damian is a Fund Partner at I Squared, focused on the Energy Transition sector globally. Prior to his current role, Damian founded Conrad Energy, a Fund I and Fund II portfolio company of I Squared. Under Damian's leadership, Conrad Energy has grown to be the UK's largest flexible generation platform with a portfolio of over 1 gigawatt of gas generation, grid-connected battery and solar assets backed by a highly automated trading and operational platform.
Damian has over 30 years of private equity infrastructure investment experience, with a particular focus on renewable energy, throughout his career including setting up and sponsoring Independent Power Producers. Prior to Conrad Energy, Damian was a Managing Director at Terra Firma, where he led the investment activity in the sector. During that time, Damian built three leading renewable energy utility businesses, through organic and buy-and-build growth strategies: Infinis (which had an initial public offering as the UK's largest independent renewable energy business), EverPower (a leading U.S. onshore wind company) and RTR (an Italian solar business that was established through a series of deals with the grid operator, Terna).
In addition to being Chairman at Conrad Energy, Damian currently holds non-executive board positions at the Energia Group (an I Squared portfolio company), Lynher Energy and AEDL ( a European toll road company).
Damian has a Sloan Fellowship MSc from London Business School and a Master's degree in Electronic Engineering Science (MEng) from the University of Manchester and L'Institut Supérieur D'Electronique du Nord in Lille, France.
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Bella Alvarez published IEN 2024 Climate Solutions Series: Fixed Income and Climate Solutions | Breckinridge Capital in Past Webinars 2024-01-12 14:54:43 -0500
IEN 2024 Climate Solutions Series: Fixed Income and Climate Solutions | Breckinridge Capital
February 27 | 2 pm ET
IEN’s climate solutions series will focus on opportunities for direct, high-impact investment in climate solutions. Each conversation in this interactive series will focus on a manager or group with a perspective in the market, giving them an opportunity to share their work, what they’re seeing in the space, and explore the range of what’s possible.
The February 2024 call featured perspectives from IEN Member Breckinridge Capital Advisors. Breckinridge is a Boston-based, independently owned investment advisor specializing in investment-grade fixed-income portfolio management, and spoke to opportunities in fixed income and provide its market views on related climate solutions.
This series is open to IEN Members only, and is a part of IEN's Net Zero Endowments Initiative. To learn more about the initiative or to join, please contact Aicha Ly at [email protected].
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Speakers:Joshua Stein, CFA, Senior Research Analyst, Breckinridge
Tim Coffin, Director of Sustainability, Breckinridge
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Bella Alvarez published IEN Webinar: Natural Capital and Biodiversity in Past Webinars 2023-12-12 16:08:37 -0500
IEN Webinar: Natural Capital and Biodiversity
January 18, 2023, 11 am ET
Join CDP, Schroders, and Green Century Capital Management for a conversation on natural capital and biodiversity in the investment process. CDP, which in September announced its intention to align with the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), will dive into its work with Green Century Capital Management on identifying companies’ progress towards key performance indicators of deforestation risk assessments and biodiversity disclosure. Schroders continues to prioritize biodiversity in its strategy and has encouraged investors to do the same this year, launching its Plan for Nature this fall to outline their approach to reducing nature risk. The firm will speak on its strategy, the need to address biodiversity through institutional investments, and the ways US and UK asset managers are planning to manage nature-related risks in 2024.
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View the webinar slide deckSpeakers:
Monique Ewerton, Senior Associate, Capital Markets, CDP
Stephanie Williams, Sustainable Investment Analyst, Schroders
Annie Sanders, Director of Shareholder Advocacy, Green Century Capital Management
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Bella Alvarez published Investment Governance Call: Rethinking Fiduciary Duty | January 9, 2023 | 1 pm ET in Past Webinars 2023-12-08 15:11:52 -0500
Investment Governance Call: Rethinking Fiduciary Duty | January 9, 2023 | 1 pm ET
This call will feature perspectives from George Suttles, Executive Director at the Commonfund Institute, and Rosalie Sheehy Cates, Senior Advisor at The Giving Practice. Suttles and Sheehy Cates will discuss the ways to inform and empower fiduciaries regarding the evolving nature of fiduciary duty, particularly how it relates to impact and sustainability. Their conversation will build on the resources Suttles and his team have supported at the Commonfund Institute, the efforts of Sheehy Cates with foundation boards and investment committees, and the work of organizations and members within IEN's Investment Governance Initiative around systemic risk and system-level investing.
If you are interested in joining this Initiative and becoming an IEN Member, please contact Georges Dyer at [email protected].
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Speakers:
Rosalie Sheehy Cates, Senior Advisor, The Giving Practice
George Suttles, Executive Director, the Commonfund Institute
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Bella Alvarez published Weekly News Round-Up: November 30, 2023 in Weekly News Round-Ups 2023-12-04 13:06:36 -0500
Weekly News Round-Up: November 30, 2023
Great news! Early bird registration for the 2024 Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit has been extended until December 15th. This means you still have time to secure your spot and join your peers at this transformative event at discounted rates. Register now!
Also, today is the last day to submit nominations for IEN's Leadership Award. Take a moment to nominate an outstanding leader in sustainable investing, including yourself!
In this week’s news, the Rockefeller Foundation makes a 2050 net zero commitment, the nation’s largest four-year public university system joins IEN, and Mercer releases its Endowment and Foundation Investment Survey 2023.
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Bella Alvarez published Weekly News Round-Up: November 22, 2023 in Weekly News Round-Ups 2023-11-22 14:39:29 -0500
Weekly News Round-Up: November 22, 2023
As we close our offices for the long holiday weekend, we are taking a moment to reflect on the success of the past few months and express our gratitude to the IEN Community for making this work possible. We are also reflecting on the larger context and history of Thanksgiving, and exploring ways our work can help our society move past the extractive system that inflicts harm on marginalized communities and support indigenous sovereignty.
We invite you to join us in our reflections as you observe the holiday and celebrate the many reasons to be thankful.
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Bella Alvarez published Weekly News Round-Up: November 9, 2023 in Weekly News Round-Ups 2023-11-22 09:54:04 -0500
Weekly News Round-Up: November 9, 2023
Students, sustainable investing professionals, and faculty we’re hosting our 2024 Student Corporate Engagement Challenge info sessions on November 14th and November 16th. We invite you to join us to learn more about the Challenge and how to participate in this program that helps build the next generation of sustainable investors.
Also, nominations for the Intentional Endowments Network Leadership Award are now open. We call on the IEN community to nominate candidates who work tirelessly to promote environmental justice in the sustainable investing space for recognition.
In this week’s news, indebted businesses are being threatened by climate change, LGIM launches a new ESG fund with an additional pillar, and an appeals court upholds a Nasdaq board diversity requirement.
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