Chris Hall

MAY 5, 2023

Despite many pension funds declaring their frustration at laggardly transition planning in the sector, as engagement yields limited results, divestment still seems to be the hardest word.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Rickard Nilsson, Director of Strategy and Growth at Esgaia, highlights recent academic insights into the effectiveness of ESG engagement. If divesting from harmful industries, communicate this publicly. Sustainable finance is undergoing an extreme change of pace. Collaboration as an enabler.

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James Militzer

MARCH 2, 2023

That’s why the William Davidson Institute is sponsoring the Energy Innovation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Global Case Writing Competition , which aims to increase the number of academic business cases available about this very important topic. The winners of the competition will receive cash prizes ranging from $1,000 to $3,000.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

Understanding early on that he would have to apply his scientific knowledge to real-world scenarios, Jacobson added an economics major to his academic pursuits. The fossil fuel divestment movement led by Bill McKibben’s 350.org (Photo Courtesy Mark Jacobson). Then, in 1989, he attended UCLA and added a M.S.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The impetus for net zero following the Paris COP came from the academic community, was endorsed and framed by policymakers, and requires business model change, often radical, to be implemented by corporates. “We have to acknowledge that with the transition to net zero, finance is an enabler not really the driver.”. Engagement ring.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 3, 2024

Academic evidence suggests there are limits to both the power of engagement and the threat of divestment, which is most effective when it serves to shift the perspective of directors to shared medium- and long-term interests.

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Chris Hall

MAY 17, 2023

Car manufacturer Toyota is facing a climate-focused shareholder resolution of its own, with Danish pension fund AkademikerPension demanding more transparency on the company’s climate lobbying practices. However, as institutional investors, academics, NGOs, investor networks and data providers congregated in London last week for ESG Investor ’s inaugural (..)

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The researchers, from Canada, the United States and Ireland, just published the first comprehensive review of academic and private research into the oil industry’s attempts to stymie and stifle climate science. “In The researchers also surfaced confidential documents that prove that businesses work deliberately to alter academic outcomes.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 21, 2025

Denmarks AkademikerPension , a member-owned scheme serving 174,500 teachers and other academic professionals, said it had decided to terminate our relationship with State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), after the US-based index fund giant was given a low ESG rating by staff.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

This appears to be growing, with increasing numbers in the latter camp moving further in the opposite direction, favouring divestment over engagement – at least as far as the highest emitters are concerned.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 29, 2023

Hillis pointed to academic research to argue that a joined-up policy framework, which simultaneously removes fossil fuels subsidies and incentivises renewable energy development, is “essential for building trust and minimising market-level risks”, she said.

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Jon Hale

JANUARY 28, 2022

It’s more a theoretical implication often discussed by academics who have yet to find much of a link. That said, few companies today want to be excluded from ESG indexes, and there is growing issuance of sustainability-linked bonds , which lower the cost of borrowing if the issuer meets predefined sustainability objectives.

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Chris Hall

MAY 26, 2023

The firm’s first transition plan eschews divestment, but neither is it putting all its eggs in one basket, emphasising policy-focused engagement , including encouraging governments to provide the framework and incentives to boost electrification, thereby reducing fossil fuel dependence.

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Tobias Webb

MARCH 22, 2022

Likewise, companies in all sectors have been rushing to divest of holdings in Russia , or halt operations there. This piece examines sanctions and corporate divestments through a slightly more sceptical lens. We are not arguing that divestment is or is not the right course of action for companies to take.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 4, 2023

“Constructive dialogue” sought by UK asset owners with managers, including meetings and their involvement in an academic review. All firms saw shareholder resolutions on climate disclosures fail to gain sufficient shareholder backing or the passing of weak climate transition plans.

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Stanford Social Innovation

AUGUST 25, 2022

Technology-focused climate crisis research and development (R&D) programs are in a time of rapid expansion and reformulation across government , academic research , the private sector, and partnerships that span all three. By Theodora Dryer. There are alternatives to expanding a lithium-dependent demand economy.

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