Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Breaking with tradition Finance Watch’s latest report , released this week, underscores the stark reality of rising climate risks and calls for economic models that do not mislead, scenario analyses that prepare the market, and a new prudential tool to address the build-up of systemic climate risk.

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Chris Hall

JULY 28, 2023

Sticking point – The G20 failed to agree on the phasing down of fossil fuels, leaving climate scientists and environmental campaigners frustrated amid weeks of extreme weather events around the globe demonstrating the escalating climate crisis.

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Sense and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) is present in our lives in many areas, from phones where we can easily access almost any information anywhere in the world to supermarkets where we can shop with a ‘click’; from banks where we can easily process transactions online to social platforms where we spend most of our time.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 10, 2022

Different asset managers and banks require different types of data or different granularities of the data, and this creates a reporting, collation and operational burden on companies. . The data can be accessed by banks, asset managers, investors, insurers and exchanges, as well as non-financial institutions. .

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2024

By continuing to follow predictions from central banks and other established sources of economic wisdom, companies and investors are making the wrong calls on their sustainable investment policies and climate transition plans, Keen argued.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

Climate scientists have unambiguously told us how to avoid the grimmest consequences of climate change: achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Multilateral development banks, or MDBs, are one of the largest sources of climate finance for developing countries, reporting over $39 billion collectively in 2019.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Morgan announced today that it has hired former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Chief Scientist Dr. Sarah Kapnick as Global head of Climate Advisory within the firm’s Commercial and Investment Bank. According to an internal memo seen by ESG Today, the appointment comes as J.P. Troy Rohrbaugh, Co-CEO, J.P.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 10, 2025

This week, JP Morgan followed five peers out of the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) , while BlackRock exited the parallel coalition for asset managers. In addition, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, an umbrella body, widened its membership criteria to include any finance firm investing in renewable energy.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 3, 2024

Yet despite these pledges, banks and other financial institutions – sectors crucial to funding the low-carbon transition – stood by their traditional borrowers and investees in the fossil fuel business. The so-called energy-supply banking ratio (ESBR) – the measure of financing for renewable energy relative to coal, oil and gas ­– was 0.73

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 21, 2025

Richard Brooks, the Toronto-based climate finance director of Stand.earth, an environmental organization, notes the slippery shift from big banks. Slow-walking on climate action is really the new climate denialism, he says. And that is code for We will stay invested in oil and gas companies.

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Richard Matthews

MARCH 14, 2022

This includes sanctions against Russian banks (access to SWIFT), and bans on exports (electronics, refining equipment, military supplies etc.). Both climate change and Putin’s invasion are directly tied to fossil fuels. The free world has come together to condemn Russia and impose far reaching penalties.

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