Academics, Divestment and Net Zero

Take Five: Europe’s Green Brigade Takes Shape

Chris Hall

MARCH 21, 2025

These can boost investment not only in defence, but also other critical objectives including the net zero transition. The SIU is aimed at mobilising retail savings and investments, too many of which lie dormant, with levers potentially including pension auto-enrolment, better-designed investment solutions, and tax incentives.

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All Systems go for Net Zero

Chris Hall

JANUARY 3, 2024

C, and investee companies are not yet facing full scrutiny of their net zero transition strategies, posing challenges for institutional investors committed to decarbonising their portfolios in line with the Paris Agreement. Others might set a target for some or all portfolio companies to be net zero aligned by 2030.

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P+ Takes Hard Line on Oil and Gas Expansion

Chris Hall

APRIL 9, 2024

The Danish pension fund for academics has joined the European asset owners opting for divestment, as fossil fuel companies remain at odds with the Paris Agreement. According to Global Fossil Fuel Divestment Commitments Database, the value of financial institutions divesting has reached US$40.76 are pension funds.

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Decarbonisation Culture

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. In addition to divesting from oil, CDPQ plans to deepen its practice in the biodiversity space and expand the scope of its commitments in nature-positive themes.

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Let the Climate Finance Flow

Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

At COP26, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero ( GFANZ ) declared a sector-wide commitment of US$130 trillion – a number that has increased over the year to US$150 trillion – of private capital to transition the global economy to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. Engagement ring.

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Scaling Climate Solutions “Intertwined” with Coherent Policy Incentives

Chris Hall

JUNE 29, 2023

Asset owners must use all available levers to phase out fossil fuels, while also rapidly increasing investment in climate solutions to achieve net zero ambitions, according to Laura Hillis, Director, Climate & Environment, Church of England Pensions Board (CoEPB).

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Empowering Young Leaders to Solve the World’s Energy Challenges: Insights From Nine Business Case Studies Highlight Paths to a Sustainable Future

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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Take Five: The New Pay Gap

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. Meanwhile, rumours abound of a further delay to the introduction – and possible reduction in scope – of US climate disclosure rules.

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Stewardship Nears Breaking Point

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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Take Five: Wheels in Motion

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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Take Five: US AGs Cast a Long Shadow

Chris Hall

MAY 26, 2023

A letter to insurers from US state attorneys-general could have broad implications for the finance sector’s coordinated efforts to support net zero goals. None explained their actions (unlike Munich Re , which left in March); all committed to pursuing net zero goals individually. End of the line? –

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What The Wall Street Journal missed about sustainable investing

Jon Hale

JANUARY 28, 2022

It’s more a theoretical implication often discussed by academics who have yet to find much of a link. In the past several years, these efforts have been more successful than ever in pushing companies on a range of sustainability issues, including making net-zero emissions commitments. Indeed, this year’s proxy season in the U.S.

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Advancing Climate Justice Priorities Over Profit-Led Research

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. The Cloud of Net-Zero. By Theodora Dryer. This is the clutch.

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