Chris Hall

MAY 24, 2024

Investor engagement with governments is an increasing area of focus, as investors move from a stewardship approach focused on company engagement to collaborative engagement with governments to address systemic risk – and thus create an enabling environment for sustainable investments. In fact, this is already happening.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

With the looming Paris Agreement goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 43% by 2030, nations are adopting different approaches to stimulating their green economy and encouraging sustainable investment. Clearly, the US is doing a better job at turning words into action.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 29, 2022

Institutional investors are increasingly attracted to climate-focused passive investment vehicles as a systematic and cost-effective way of transitioning their portfolios to net zero. . Recently, passive products that are ‘Paris-aligned’ – meaning they are decarbonising in line with a 1.5-2°C

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2022

As a high-emitting sector, oil and gas companies are under increasing pressure from investors and regulators to set decarbonisation targets that align with the goals of the Paris Agreement. BP is targeting a 35-40% reduction in its Scope 3 upstream combustion emissions by end of the decade compared to 2019 levels. .

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

For example, the indicative financed emissions from the UK financial sector in 2019 were found to be 1.8 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

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Chris Hall

JUNE 13, 2024

Unlike many other countries, the UK has targets that are legally binding under the Climate Change Act 2008 (2050 Target Amendment) Order 2019 – which Skidmore, in his former capacity of interim minister of state for energy and clean growth, signed into law in June 2019.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Current private capital flows are insufficient to support the implementation of clean energy technologies in emerging and developing economies at the pace and scale necessary to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, said the OECD, making the development of new blended finance solutions a priority. .

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 19, 2022

According to an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report on Climate Change and Land from 2019, agriculture, forestry and other land use account for around 23% of total net anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG). It also plays an important role in regulating climate change. Natural risk.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 25, 2022

degree Celsius increase in global temperatures, which is aligned with the Paris Agreement, and a 2 degree increase which is considered more likely based on recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including HSBC AM, Ninety One, OnePlanetCapital, Mirova, Omnes and Bank of America. . HSBC Asset Management has expanded its sustainable equity ETF range with the launch of the HSBC Europe ex-UK Sustainable Equity UCITS ETF.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

FTSE Russells 2024 sustainable investment survey found that asset owners were utilising passive sustainable investment strategies more often than active strategies for the first time. These voluntary benchmarks follow the Climate Transition Benchmark (CTB) and PAB, which were signed into law in 2019.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

And investors may be able to utilise their influence via engagement and voting to counteract legal action. A landmark 2021 ruling by a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions across global operations by 45% by the end of the decade from 2019 levels.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 8, 2022

Management of nature-related risks, impacts and dependencies could soon become central to asset owners’ sustainable investment strategies. From Paris to Kunming. The 2015 Paris Agreement set a single goal, of keeping climate change to 2°C above pre-industrial levels, albeit modified in 2018 to 1.5°C Article 2.1.c

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Chris Hall

APRIL 23, 2024

Between 2019 and 2022, climate activists across the country became disheartened by the weaponisation of climate action under Scott Morrison’s government. For many years, Australia has been considered a climate laggard on the international stage, often appearing near the bottom of global rankings.

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 9, 2020

On 9-10 December, 2019 in Madrid, Spain alongside the UNFCCC COP25 , the Low-Emissions Solutions Conference (LESC) entitled “Systems Transformations for a 1.5 Degree World” was held in partnership with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) , ICLEI , and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN).

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2023

UNEP FI estimates the current adaptation finance gap is around US$194-366 billion per year, and positively, Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) found last month that adaptation finance had reached an all-time high of US$63 billion, growing 28% from 2019/20.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In particular, many states have enacted laws or other policies requiring state entities to integrate sustainability factors into their investment policies, processes and decisions. For instance, Illinois enacted the Illinois Sustainable Investing Act in 2019. Morgan Asset Management (Jan. 2, 2022), [link]. [2]

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 2, 2023

Louis Bromfield, Lead Sustainable Investment Associate at Foresight Capital Management, says that investors need to pay attention to SAFs, with aviation representing “one of the most difficult sectors to decarbonise”. Trouble on the tarmac A key challenge in scaling up SAFs comes from production.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This March, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a sustainable business forum in Vancouver “things have changed” since the country signed up to the Paris Agreement on climate change. Since 2019, every jurisdiction in Canada has imposed a price on carbon pollution.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

C objective of the Paris Agreement would of course significantly limit these impacts. The harsh reality is that societies and investors will need to adapt to living – and investing – on a hotter planet. 9] Global Commission on Adaptation (GCA) (2019). Rapid decarbonisation and achieving the 1.5°C

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 12, 2020

As an example, heavy GHG emitters countries as China pledged for net-zero emissions by 2060, and the Paris Agreement became one of the issues driving voters to vote in the US presidential election. Sustainable business trend 1 – Eco-designed Products. Sustainability products grew 54.7% of the CPG market (2015-2019).

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2022

According to analysts Circle Economy, adding circular economy solutions to countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement will enable global temperature rises to be kept “well below” 2?C. “It is a resilient system that is good for business, people and the environment,” says the Foundation.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 25, 2020

SDSN: Goals and Actions Normal 0 21 false false false DE X-NONE X-NONE The SDSN pursues to connect the world’s academic, research and knowledge-generating institutions in order to help them realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement. The offered courses are accessible online and free for all.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

That’s three times better than the average large publicly traded company with more than US$1 billion in overall revenue, which earned 16% of its revenue from sustainable sources. When it comes to sustainable investments, it’s the same story. None of this means we can rest on our laurels. trillion).

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 24, 2025

for sustainable investment may take time to emerge, but the direction of travel is clear. But the genesis of the project was the reaction of a small group of dedicated investors who wanted to ensure incidents such as the Brumadinho dam collapse in Brazil in 2019 which killed 272 people were never repeated.

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