Chris Hall

APRIL 21, 2023

In 2021, insured natural catastrophe losses reached around US$110 billion, according to Swiss Re, making it the third-costliest catastrophe year since 2011.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 25, 2023

It has publicly endorsed the Paris Agreement on climate change as well as the EU’s target of being net-zero by 2050. In 2021, BASF purchased a major share of the world’s largest wind farm – Hollandse Kust Zuid – which is currently under construction in the North Sea, some 50 kilometres off the Dutch coast.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 27, 2025

Alongside stranded asset dangers for investors, the early phase-out of emerging markets coal fleets leaves countries open to legal, financial risks. An increasing number of countries including the EU have exited the ECT, arguing that the treaty does not align with the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

The Clean Shipping Act would direct the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set increasingly stringent carbon intensity standards for shipping fuel by 2040, in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. Some companies will start acting and some won’t; there’s more risk of stranded assets.” What role should investors play?

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Chris Hall

APRIL 27, 2022

In 2021, global electric vehicle (EV) sales more than doubled to 6.6 Moreover, all of the net growth of global car sales in 2021 came from the sale of EVs. China has emerged as a driver of the global EV market, almost tripling sales in 2021 to reach 3.4 This represented a tripling of EV’s market share from two years earlier.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

The announcement is meant to deliver on the 2023 subsidy phaseout deadline contained in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s December, 2021 mandate letters to Guilbeault and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland. increase in 2021, the Canadian Climate Institute reported in February). billion for the first nine months of 2021/22.

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Chris Hall

MAY 4, 2022

Only 1% of over 13,000 corporates across 13 industries and 117 countries disclosed against 24 key climate transition plan indicators, according to a 2021 report by sustainability disclosure platform CDP. In 2021, the TCFD consulted on its metrics, targets and transition plans, with a view to updating its original 2017 framework and guidance.

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Chris Hall

MAY 11, 2022

For example, a decision not to invest in a high-carbon asset because of financial concerns about stranded assets is likely to be seen as consistent with fiduciary duties, providing that the decision is based on credible assumptions and robust processes. How are attitudes changing? Are returns no longer first among equals?

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

VCMs have logged rapid growth in recent years, reaching nearly US$2 billion by the end of 2021, and expected to reach US$50 billion by 2030. “There is only one way we’re going to keep 1.5°C It makes sense for countries where it is costly to reduce emissions to pay for the emissions reductions where it is cheaper to do so.” .

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Chris Hall

JULY 20, 2022

While Group of Seven governments are announcing grand plans , asset owners in developed markets are increasingly keen to play their part in this transition. . In April, a Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) ?

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

C and implement the Paris Agreement and will be welcomed by the business community. C temperature goal of the Paris Agreement alive, and to ensure a just transition. . See the open letter to President Biden that supports this direction of travel, signed by more than 400 companies in April 2021. .

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Richard Matthews

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

As stated in the most recent IPCC report we know with unequivocal clarity that fossil fuels are the leading cause of climate change and that we must quickly move away from them if we are to keep temperatures from exceeding the upper threshold limit contained in the Paris Agreement (2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial norms).

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