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bne IntelliNews: "Similarly, a report from the EDHEC Business School in France found that climate data accounted for only 12% of the determinants of portfolio stock weights that investors and managers used to manage portfolios. The report, called “Doing Good or Feeling Good? Detecting Greenwashing in Climate Investing,” called for a minimum threshold of 50% for avoiding any risk of greenwashing. As such, an investment portfolio with under 50% for this metric cannot be regarded as climate-friendly or aligned with net-zero ambitions."

bne IntelliNews 22/09/2021

"(...) Similarly, a report from the EDHEC Business School in France found that climate data accounted for only 12% of the determinants of portfolio stock weights that investors and managers used to manage portfolios. The report, called “Doing Good or Feeling Good? Detecting Greenwashing in Climate Investing,” called for a minimum threshold of 50% for avoiding any risk of greenwashing. As such, an investment portfolio with under 50% for this metric cannot be regarded as climate-friendly or aligned with net-zero ambitions. (...)"