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KKR 2021 Sustainability Report: Climate

3BL Media

Set net-zero by 2050 goals at three private markets funds that are currently being raised. Set net-zero by 2050 goals at three private markets funds that are currently being raised. ENGAGING with portfolio companies on climate-related issues. SCALING UP: 2021 HIGHLIGHTS.

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Going green: The future of hydrogen energy

Renewable Energy World

This year’s COP26 summit is widely viewed as one of the last chances to fulfil the 2015 Paris climate agreement and ensure meaningful progress is made towards tackling our net zero targets and the climate emergency. Hydrogen cluster projects with industry, local government and communities can deliver the early steps towards net zero.

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A Principled Stance

Chris Hall

Chris Skidmore, former MP and author of the net zero review, talks about what the next UK government should do to get the country’s net zero commitments back on track. “I cannot vote for the [Offshore Petroleum Licensing] bill next week. In May, a High Court ruling ordered it publish a revised net zero strategy.

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Solvency II: Roadblocks to Sustainable Investments Remain Despite Reforms

Chris Hall

In part, this piece of Brussels law-making was a response to the collapse in September 2008, at the height of the financial crisis, of the world’s largest insurer, American International Group. This would not prevent fossil fuel investment but would make it more expensive. Balance sheet volatility.

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Technology for good: Accelerating our path to a sustainable future

Cisco CSR

And in 2008, Al Gore set a moonshot on climate change – a challenge to produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun, and other renewable energy sources within 10 years. Last year, Cisco set its “moonshot” goal: To reach net zero emissions by 2040.

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Is the IMO Turning the Tide on Transition?

Chris Hall

With global trade highly dependent on shipping, achieving net zero may put wind in the sails of other industries’ climate ambitions. For the first time, the IMO has also agreed on an overarching objective to achieve net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by or around 2050.

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In wild west of sustainable investing, which mutual funds are the most responsible?

Corporate Knights

If 2020 was the year sustainable investing went mainstream, then 2021 was the year it was tested. Activist investors should be pushing companies much harder to get serious about going net-zero. The money is flowing, with assets invested in sustainable mutual funds and ETFs doubling from US$17 billion to $34 billion.