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Canada is sleeping on the energy transition

Corporate Knights

Although we’ve promised to introduce a cap on energy sector emissions, this cap will not address Scope 3 emissions (those up and down a company’s supply chain), which account for around 88% of total emissions from the oil and gas industry.

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Decarbonising Investment Portfolios on the Journey to Net Zero

3BL Media

For financial institutions such as banks, insurance companies and investment managers, scope 3 emissions from supply chains and lending/investment portfolios are often more complex than for other industries. For example, the indicative financed emissions from the UK financial sector in 2019 were found to be 1.8

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No Quick Fix to Europe’s Gas Dependency

Chris Hall

In a letter to the Commission, WindEurope explained how low volumes of permitted projects have impacted Europe’s wind turbine manufacturers and wider supply chain. Increasing gas infrastructure must be avoided to avert dangerous climate impacts and stranded assets.”.

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Red Light, Green Light

Chris Hall

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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Now or Never

Chris Hall

This realisation was partly sparked by the stranded assets debate initiated by Carbon Tracker in 2013, says Vanston, with research conducted by the London School of Economics’ Grantham Research Institute calling on regulators, policymakers and investors to re-evaluate energy business models against carbon budgets, to prevent a US$6 trillion carbon (..)

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Defining Sustainable Economic Systems – Development vs Growth

Richard Matthews

This economic model is designed to increase the human capacity to deal with shocks (climate disasters, supply chain interruptions, etc). The white economy has also been used to describe the digital economy, this definition is attributed to Professor Douglas McWilliams, a British economist who wrote a 2015 book by the same name.

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COP26 Live Blog: All in for 1.5ºC

We Mean Business Coalition

The Global Resilience Index launched today, will help improve the way insurers, financiers and investors measure the resilience of countries, companies and supply chains. The report tracks developments across sectors covering 90% of global emissions in 2015-2021. Apple is a member of Climate Group’s RE100 initiative.

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