Chris Hall

MARCH 19, 2024

million more than in 2016. million in 2016. Divestment has typically been used as a last resort by investors, as remaining invested in green energy is often critical to them. “By Earlier this year, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) paid €600 million (US$651.4

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Chris Hall

MARCH 27, 2024

Reflecting on these findings, it’s perhaps understandable that some investors have become frustrated by the sector’s lack of progress. Last year, the Church of England Pensions Board and Church Commissioners divested from all oil and gas firms that failed to align with climate goals – including Shell.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2017

As more and more institutions and people are divesting from fossil fuels globally, climate responsible finance is booming. Part of this revolution is the meteoritic growth of green bonds, which were started in 2007 by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank. But what are they? City bonds are mostly AA.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Research will span the introduction of the Paris Agreement in 2016 to the conclusion of the 2023 proxy season, with the aim of comparing the voting patterns of asset owners and managers. According to Hoepner, the research will examine investor stewardship at all oil and gas companies tracked by the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI).

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Chris Hall

JULY 7, 2023

The heat is on – On the hottest day on record , the World Meteorological Organization officially confirmed the return of El Niño, the climate pattern responsible for the warmest year on record in 2016, and the extreme weather conditions across large parts of the Global South. This raises the prospect of 1.5°C

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

As COVID came to dominate 2020, she helped donate more than 600,000 meals and 100,000 pounds of packaging to food banks. While at Tufts University, from which he received a bachelor’s in international relations and economics, Dowd was involved with the school’s fossil fuels divestment campaign and interned in the Obama White House.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In a report Reclaim Finance notes that a tightening of the Race to Zero criteria “led to a pushback from some GFANZ members, and especially the big US banks ”. Before GFANZ, not one bank had set or published an interim net-zero target. Today more than half the banks in Net Zero Banking Alliance have set science-based targets for 2030.”

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In 2016, the head of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Canada’s biggest pension fund, warned it should operate “at an arm’s length” from the government after it called on the fund to invest in Canadian infrastructure. California’s proposed divestment laws addresses the systemic risk of climate change, he says.

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

The fossil fuels divestment movement continues to grow and as indicated in a recent report by DivestInvest, 1,500 investment institutions, responsible for $39.2 trillion in assets, have committed to divest. Student divestment movements have succeeded in removing fossil fuels from a number of universities in 2021.

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