Chris Hall

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) has called on governments to swiftly implement and intensify climate-related policy that facilitates capital flow towards the net zero transition. Allia nce says t arget-setting by members translating into measurable impact on emissions reduction for the first time.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 1, 2022

CalSTRS’ commitment to achieving net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 or sooner has heightened the asset owner’s scrutiny of investee companies’ decarbonisation targets and performance. If engagement and voting fails to promote positive change amongst investee companies, NBIM has demonstrated its willingness to divest.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2023

R estoration c apital w ill become c ore to the c limate n arrative towards the 2025 r atchet , says Julian Poulter, Head of Investor Relations at the Inevitable Policy Response. This will take time and now time has run out for the new clean lobbying to have the necessary impact to save global net zero without an overshoot past 1.5 ° C.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 31, 2023

The protocol outlines how the 84 alliance members, with a collective US$11 trillion in assets, can align their sub-portfolio decarbonisation targets with net zero.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 25, 2022

Speaking at the City Week financial services symposium in London, she echoed the views of the UN-convened Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) that 1.5°C The UK’s new Transition Plan Taskforce , for example, is bringing industry, NGOs and governments together to set out what a commitment to net zero should look like. . “It

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Chris Hall

JULY 14, 2023

According to research by MSCI, nearly half (44%) of listed companies have now set decarbonisation targets, representing an eight-percentage-point increase than was reported in the October 2022 MSCI Net-Zero Tracker , but only 17% of those targets would align with the 1.5°C trillion, or 6.8%

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Chris Hall

MAY 31, 2024

Head of Sustainability at CDPQ Bertrand Millot highlights the pension fund’s focus on decarbonising the real economy, as well as comprehensively divesting from the oil industry. It also increased its green assets by 34% during the same period to C$53 billion, putting it within reach of its 2025 target of C$54 billion.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Today, 78% of our product sales come from this program, and we plan to reach 80% by 2025. This is anchored in our comprehensive net-zero science-based targets and an ambitious impact plan for 2025 that includes saving 800 million tons of CO2 emissions for our customers by that time.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Pledge to divest over next two years follows mounting pressure from protesters. PFZW has been under pressure from climate activists over recent months who have called for its divestment from fossil fuels. Setting a 1.5°C This followed a successful campaign targeting the country’s largest scheme, ABP.

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Chris Hall

MAY 25, 2023

C pathway.” Despite ‘dark green’ investors divesting from Glencore, Narr remains encouraged by 24% of shareholders voting against Glencore’s climate plan at last year’s AGM which showed there was a “sizable minority that were not super happy with the climate report”. At the meeting, the US$64.8

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

It will help investors get up to speed on the least-understood risk in the economy. “This strategy is designed for the real, system-wide adjustments that will make sure we’re not divesting, we’re investing in a climate resilient economy.” Further, only 9% have implemented a response to their physical risk exposure. “It

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

The UK’s Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) hit a significant milestone last week with the release of its final set of transition plan resources to help businesses mobilise finance for the net zero transition.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Canadian pension fund to eschew “blanket divestment”, emphasising role as “active investor and influencer”. Blanket divestment is not the best way to maximise returns without undue risk of loss. Blanket divestment is not the best way to maximise returns without undue risk of loss. Whole economy transition.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2024

The sector, moreover, isn’t on track to achieve net-zero targets, despite investments in new forms of low-carbon energy for steel plants. For example, Sims finally divested itself of part of its municipal recycling business – a large blue-box operation in New York City. Photo courtesy of Sims Ltd.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 11, 2023

The Church of England has announced it will divest from Shell, finally acknowledging the failure of more than a decade of investor efforts to convince the oil and gas sector to align with global climate goals. The respected investor is now divesting from all fossil fuels by the end of 2023 and will no longer try to engage with oil and gas.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 2, 2023

Perhaps more encouragingly, almost a fifth of shareholders voted in favour of resolutions calling on ExxonMobil and Shell to accurately disclose the role of asset transfers in their reported GHG emissions reductions, which would stop them claiming CO2 cuts from divestments.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 22, 2022

reduction in UPP’s portfolio carbon footprint by 2025 and 60% by 2030 compared to a 2021 baseline. . For existing investments, UPP is prioritising active engagement over divestment, partly due to the complexity of the challenges facing firms in different sectors. . Multi-pronged climate engagement .

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James Militzer

MARCH 2, 2023

To achieve the Agreement’s goal of net-zero emissions globally by 2050 , we must significantly boost energy efficiency and greatly accelerate the global transition away from fossil fuels, and toward new fuels such as green hydrogen and renewables such as wind, solar and thermal.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 16, 2023

Pension scheme says country’s new framework will support its net zero strategy; asserts that divestment of fossil fuels amounts to “passing the buck ”. Engagement over divestment The Canadian Pension Climate Report Card , which benchmarks schemes’ decarbonisation efforts, criticised HOOPP for lack of ambition in January.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 3, 2022

We also reiterate our multi-year earnings per share CAGR of 5% to 7% from the mid-point of 2022 guidance to 2025, in large part driven by continued growth in the utility's investment programs, including obtaining a return of and on capital investments that will be recovered specifically through the next base rate case to be filed by year-end 2023.".

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

As is their wont, many companies used the occasion to proclaim updated commitments — the buzzword du la semaine was "net-zero" with Walmart declaring a zero-emissions target by 2040 along with a big clean fleet promise and a pledge to "protect, manage or restore" at least 50 million acres of land and 1 million square miles of ocean by 2030.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

It is estimated that $15 trillion a year must be put toward green technologies to meet net-zero emissions. As climate data becomes more democratized, it will provide a better understanding of which ESG initiatives aid progress toward a net-zero world. trillion, even more investment is needed.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2023

But developers who plan to start operating in 2025, including three hydrogen-based steelmaking projects, will need to reach a final investment decision in 2023 to start on time. The divestment movement will wane. In Europe, policy guidance on key subsidy mechanisms may take longer. million euros. Martin Tengler, hydrogen team leader.

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Chris Hall

JULY 24, 2024

Major US investors are pulling out of climate groups like Climate Action 100+ (CA100+) and the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ). Real money is coming out of sustainable funds by the billions. Since then, anti-ESG legislation has become a craze among Republican-controlled states.

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

The letter also seeks a net-zero electricity grid by 2035, a 50 percent target for electric vehicle sales by 2030, and a renewed commitment to international climate finance. Under the Paris Agreement, countries were only obliged to update their goals by 2025. trillion in assets, have committed to divest.

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