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S&P Global Launches Climate Center of Excellence Focused on Climate, Environmental, and Nature Research

ESG Today

Key research focus areas for the new center include physical climate hazards, Earth systems tipping points, nonlinear climate impacts, probabilistic risk modeling, coupled climate and macroeconomic modeling, supply chain exposure, Scope 3 emissions, and financial impact quantification.

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AB: As Climate Change Gets Hyperphysical, Investors Should Too

3BL Media

There are also costs for stranded or delayed production capacity, plant closures, supply chain disruptions and legal liabilities from not adapting assets and communities to be more resilient. This was the case with a large South American bank, whose most significant financial threat comes from—of all things—farming.

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SCS Global Services Garners Recognition as One of SF Bay Area’s Fastest Growing Private Companies

3BL Media

He committed the company to tackle difficult-to-solve challenges, such as reducing pesticide residues and pathogens in food, improving management of natural resources, reinforcing sustainable supply chains, reducing pollution from manufacturing, taking responsibility for the full life-cycle of industrial systems, and mitigating climate impacts.

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Guest Post: Climate Risks To Financial Performance Are Hugely Under-estimated

ESG Today

Companies face a growing array of climate risks more immediate and severe than previously believed, from extreme weather events disrupting supply chains to rising climate litigation and regulations against carbon-intensive industries. For many, it’s simply because they don’t understand it.

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The 10 Big Things To Watch Across World’s Energy Markets in 2023

3BL Media

The price signal from the biggest market in term of traded value, the European Union, will be muted as lawmakers eye carbon as a piggy bank to fund the bloc’s shift from Russian gas. The World Bank estimates that a carbon price of $50 to $100 per ton of CO2 is required by 2030 to meet the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Farmers, Financiers Urged to Seek Pastures New

Chris Hall

Livestock funding swells US banks’ financed emissions, research warns, as Brazil’s cattle sector told to get to grips with transition. Ninety-seven percent of the financing came from 15 creditors, including the ‘Big Three’ US banks: Bank of America (US$26.5 billion), Citigroup (US$23.8 billion).

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Reshaping Africa’s Food Systems: Three Opportunities to Drive Sustainable, Inclusive and Scalable Impact

James Militzer

We hope that this, in turn, will benefit stakeholders all along their supply chains long after the program has ended. Bank on climate finance opportunities From historic droughts to powerful cyclones, extreme weather is putting Africa’s food systems in a dangerous cycle.