Chris Hall

JANUARY 17, 2025

million metric tonnes in 2023, almost double the amount produced in 2000, and is expected to double again by 2040. Other risks include stranded assets in cases where no effort has been made to look at how plastics are being made and used throughout value chains.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Just as critically, transition plans are about embracing the booming new clean economy, creating new markets, and investing in the next batch of winners as this shift continues to accelerate exponentially— and avoiding being left behind with dwindling markets, outmoded business models, and stranded assets. This year, a record $1.8

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ESG Today

MARCH 14, 2024

The company noted that emissions from oil products had already declined by around 9% in 2023 from the 2021 base, and said that the new target would represent a 40% reduction from 2016, including 8 percentage points caused by contracts being classified as held for trading purposes.

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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. Carbon Capture Backed by Carbon Offsets?

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2023

As US and Canadian banking majors begin to publish their 2023 proxy statements, there has been a troubling mischaracterization of climate-related shareholder resolutions, misleading investors into thinking these resolutions are something they’re not. Proponents of the resolutions acknowledge the near-term need for fossil fuels.

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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. India increased its coal production by 12% in 2023-24 compared to 2022-23, with the government aiming for a 7% annual production increase. This would lead to 1.5

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Chris Hall

MAY 7, 2024

Mining giant BHP’s bid to acquire Anglo-American would create the world’s biggest shipper of metallurgical coal and a global mega-polluter, exposing shareholders to stranded asset risk as the world moves away from fossil fuels, a think tank has warned.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2023

Even so, we have developed a pipeline of over ten large nature-based solutions to be financed during 2023, with an overall potential of 40,000 hectares of agroforestry and productive restoration. It’s part of our fiduciary duty to be at the forefront of efforts to scale up and re-allocate capital. Yet the world is changing.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Those organisations that have not considered reducing these emission sources could be misunderstanding the double materiality risks they carry: the risks to their business, like stranded assets or reputational risks, and their contribution to making the Earth uninhabitable.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 3, 2024

Against an uncertain policy backdrop, 2023 also witnessed growing tensions between asset owners and managers, notably in the UK, with the latter not seen as providing sufficient support for their clients’ net zero-aligned strategies, particularly during the proxy voting season. Lee suggests not. “In

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

On 7 July, at the 80 th Meeting of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 80), IMO member states endorsed the regulator’s ‘ 2023 IMO Strategy on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships ’. 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

AUGUST 23, 2023

To better stimulate investment in climate resilience across Australia and New Zealand, the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) has developed its ‘ Road to Resilience ’ strategy. Further, only 9% have implemented a response to their physical risk exposure.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Demand for gas may surge further in 2023, but its demise could well be sooner and sharper – and the risk of stranded assets much higher – than might have been predicted before Russia’s tanks rolled toward Kiev.

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Chris Hall

MAY 19, 2023

With global governments already under pressure to sign binding agreements to ‘scale down’ fossil fuel use at COP28 in November 2023, the economic and political case for developing renewables to replace existing energy infrastructure as well as for new energy capacity is growing. Globally, meeting the Paris targets of 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 8, 2024

This leaves it heavily exposed to reputational, regulatory and stranded-asset risk, leading many investors to avoid it. In 2023, the coal division contributed over CA$5 billion (US$3.64 The acquisition of EVR will only add to that. billion) to the company’s approximately CA$7 billion gross profit.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2024

iv In 2023, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) set a target of achieving net zero emissions by 2050. Investing in fuel flexibility is the most financially viable way to avoid the risk of stranded assets, concludes the document. Without action, this could increase by more than 45% by 2050.

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Sustainability Matters

MARCH 20, 2023

The IPCC Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report, compiled by almost 300 scientists across 67 countries, draws together all the contributions from IPCC’s sixth assessment cycle, showing how action on climate change must be accelerated throughout the decade. The AR5 Synthesis Report contains over seven years’ worth of new peer-reviewed science.

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We Mean Business Coalition

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

This means companies MUST consider the financial risks of climate change on the company’s financial situation – short, medium and long term.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 21, 2023

During a media briefing hosted by the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), lead investors, including the New York City (NYC) Comptroller’s Office, As You Sow and Sierra Club Foundation, outlined their proposals for the upcoming 2023 proxy season.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

These plants are expected to operate for decades and risk becoming “stranded assets” if they retire early. billion for its energy transition between 2023 and 2027. These countries need more financing and alternative energy solutions, while at the same time, many have young coal fleets and new plants still under development.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2023

We have a clear dialogue with a company before they are blacklisted but will continue to engage because we want to be able to invest in them again.” Stranded assets AP7 is a member of the Paris Aligned Asset Owners Initiative, a global group of 56 asset owners with over US$3.3

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2023

The importance of water-related risks was underlined last month with the commitments to a more ambitious Water Action Agenda signed last month at the UN’s first dedicated water summit in 50 years, part of a focus throughout 2023 on getting the UN Sustainable Development Goals back on track.

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Chris Hall

MAY 4, 2022

Over the course of 2022-2023, the TPT will be making recommendations, preparing detailed sectoral templates, creating guidance on third-party verification, and producing a pathway for future work on transition plans for consultation. . “No No two companies’ transition journeys are the same, even if they’re in the same sector.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

billion of first-phase financing, through mechanisms including grants, concessional loans and investments and risk sharing instruments, but it has taken time for details to be worked out on how funding would be channelled to support decommissioning of soon-to-be-stranded assets. . The deal committed US$8.5 Article 6.4

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 24, 2025

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has been predicting since September 2023 that demand for all three fossil fuels will peak this decade before going into terminal decline. Brooks agreed that future gas demand looks like it will be more ephemeral, and thus less attractive for manufacturers to really bring on added capacity.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 23, 2025

With more than 25 years of experience in sustainable development, energy and climate, Mendiluce was named one of Time magazines 100 most influential people on climate in 2023. Countries that have fossil fuel assets, they need to understand that the demand is going to decrease. This interview has been condensed and edited.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

We must grasp the opportunity of the Global Stocktake to establish it as a key moment to raise climate ambition in the 2030 targets, by 2023 at the latest. It makes no long-term sense to continue pumping money into an asset that is already destined to eventually have no value — a stranded asset. ANALYSIS: NEWS: .

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Richard Matthews

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The courts, investors , banks and insurers are all making this point and this compelling argument is buoyed by increasing examples of stranded assets. A total of 208 educational institutions have divested their assets from fossil fuels. It is fitting that educational institutions are divesting in droves.

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