Chris Hall

JANUARY 12, 2024

Many of the tools in the sustainable investing toolbox are not up to the job, he argued, which is why universal owners are bound to fail when they try to internalise climate targets within their portfolios. “So-called We keep banging our head against these totally unresolvable problems with offset markets,” he added. “We

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Chris Hall

JUNE 5, 2023

UKSIF banks “phased approach “ to sustainability disclosures for SMEs to reduce compliance burden of UK ’s proposed non-financial reporting requirements. In 2023, the TPT aims to finalise its disclosure framework and implementation guidance and will develop sectoral guidance.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 24, 2022

Consistent data on sovereign climate risks is crucial, says Victoria Barron, ASCOR Chair and Head of Sustainable Investment, BT Pension Scheme. In the run-up to COP26, the FAIRR Initiative investor network flagged the lack of detail about emissions reduction in the agricultural sector in the NDCs of 16 Group of 20 countries.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 16, 2023

But talking to policy experts, the sustainable finance picture in the UK is not all doom and gloom. There are disappointments, such as the perceived failure of the UK’s leadership of 2021’s COP26 and the taxonomy delay. Slow down” necessary.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 24, 2022

With the consultation periods for both the International Sustainability Standards Board’s (ISSB) climate and general sustainability standards and the European sustainability reporting standards (ESRSs) now closed, this explainer touches on the sticking points which will need to be smoothed out ahead of their being finalised later this year. .

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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. Alongside its many harrowing and destructive impacts, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has provided an unintentional boost to the aims of COP26. Not starting from scratch.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The ISSB was launched at COP26 alongside the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, but there was no comparable announcement of a grand sector-wide coalition in Montreal, despite the presence of GFANZ Co-chair and former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney, highlighting the “interdependent” nature of the biodiversity and climate crises.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 16, 2023

C as possible, experts say. The IPR forecasts that climate policies put in place since COP26 set the world on a 1.8°C C temperature pathway. Last year, the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) ‘ Emissions Gap Report ’ said climate policies enacted worldwide could result in 2.8°C C of global warming by 2100 – and between 2.4-2.6°C

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Prior to the COP26 summit, 141 signatories from human rights and environmental organisations sent a declaration to climate negotiators. Specific targets for Scope 3 emissions should be set by the end of 2023 at the latest. Ashman asks. Leaders and laggards alike face mounting pressure from NGOs, policymakers and investors to do better.

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