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Canada is sleeping on the energy transition

Corporate Knights

The clean energy transition is happening faster than predicted, with renewable deployment rates growing in line with the International Energy Agency’s scenario for reaching net-zero by 2050. While Canadian energy majors have paid lip service to the idea of becoming “net-zero,” their current climate strategies amount to delay tactics.

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Decarbonising Investment Portfolios on the Journey to Net Zero

3BL Media

Financial organisations thus have a major role to play in the decarbonisation of the global economy, yet it is estimated that since the Paris Agreement in 2015, the 60 largest banks have instead invested $5.5 South Pole can help you navigate the existing framework as well as the new net zero guidance (FINZ) which will replace it in Q4 2023.

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IPCC issues final warning about ‘rapidly closing window of opportunity’

Corporate Knights

Delaying those actions “would lock in high-emissions infrastructure, raise risks of stranded assets and cost escalation, reduce feasibility, and increase losses and damages.” But some meeting participants warned that those delays are baked into the process by some of the key assumptions in the IPCC’s modelling. Overshooting 1.5°C

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Red Light, Green Light

Chris Hall

The UK’s net zero transition depends on huge amounts of private capital that can only be unlocked through climate policy certainty. Investing in the development of onshore wind has also been a challenge, thanks to planning laws introduced in 2015 which allow one objection from a local resident to halt an entire onshore wind project.

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Investors Face Direct Risk from Climate Litigation

Chris Hall

“Investors often underestimate indirect legal risks despite the financial toll of lawsuits against investee companies,” Clarke said. The claim, for £36 billion (US$44 billion), could have a major impact on the firm’s share price, a knock-on effect on investors, and potentially set a precedent for future litigation.

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Investors Face Rising Direct Risk from Climate Litigation

Chris Hall

“Investors often underestimate indirect legal risks despite the financial toll of lawsuits against investee companies,” Clarke said. The claim, for £36 billion (US$44 billion), could have a major impact on the firm’s share price, a knock-on effect on investors, and potentially set a precedent for future litigation.

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ICYMI, an Ill Wind is Blowing From the East

Chris Hall

Almost overnight, Vladimir Putin pulled off something investors have been struggling to achieve since 2015: decarbonising the business models of oil and gas majors. But will the energy giants diversify from or double down on fossil fuels in response to inevitable write-offs on stranded assets?