Chris Hall

MARCH 16, 2022

Launched in 2018, they act as a global guiding framework for banks, insurers and investors. They promote the implementation of UN Sustainable Development Goal 14 (Life Below Water), and set out ocean-specific standards, allowing the financial industry to mainstream sustainability of ocean-based sectors.

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 30, 2019

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is supporting countries in the region to achieve these ambitious goals, along with some foreign governments like Germany. The dialogue explored the vision and challenges for countries to achieve decarbonization by 2050.

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Chris Hall

MAY 6, 2022

Sixty-nine percent of listed equities reporting via CDP’s platform stated they are exposed to water risks that could “generate a substantive change in their business”, said CDP’s report on how water issues are stranding assets. Water risk factors and stranded assets.

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Chris Hall

MAY 7, 2024

Mining giant BHP’s bid to acquire Anglo-American would create the world’s biggest shipper of metallurgical coal and a global mega-polluter, exposing shareholders to stranded asset risk as the world moves away from fossil fuels, a think tank has warned. German think tank Agora also predicts that DRI will outcompete CCUS.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The impact of green swans on financial stability was explored in a paper published by the Bank for International Settlements in 2020. The paper explained that “traditional backward-looking risk assessments” could not accurately anticipate climate-related risks, including green swans.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Financial institutions need to segment their portfolios into transition, net zero-aligned and stranded assets and develop clear emissions reduction plans in line with recognised 2030 and 2050 targets, said Mark Carney, Founder and Co-chair of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ). Greater accountability.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

These countries need affordable, reliable and clean energy to support their socio-economic development and to mitigate climate change. Commercial financial institutions worldwide continue to support coal power plant development indirectly, despite having implemented policies to exclude direct financing of new coal-fired generation assets.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 23, 2022

The exchanges, and the associated industry of banks, insurers, lawyers and financial services providers, are profiting from activities that are at odds with their countries’ climate commitments and that put investors at risk, the report said. . Nothing could be more clear or present than the danger of fossil fuel expansion.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 3, 2024

Dr Tom Gosling, Executive Fellow at London Business School, has argued that some asset managers are effectively pulling their punches on net zero, holding off on implementing their collective and individual commitments, awaiting stronger policy direction from politicians. Lee suggests not. “In

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 27, 2023

For a large cap equity team that holds blue chip companies in developed markets, it’s fairly straightforward to provide the necessary climate data, because service providers tend to cover that space pretty well, but it gets difficult with small cap or emerging markets,” he said.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Throughout the 21st century, China’s rapid economic development has fueled a steady rise in energy consumption, in contrast to the US and European Union, where it has plateaued and even started to fall ( Display ). For China, decarbonization considerations are tightly tethered to economic development and continued growth.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2023

Jessye Waxman, Senior Campaign Representative, Fossil-Free Finance Campaign, Sierra Club, says climate-related shareholder resolutions give banks necessary guardrails for transition financing. These claims are a misrepresentation of resolutions that simply aim to reduce banks’ exposure to climate-related risks.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

These countries need more financing and alternative energy solutions, while at the same time, many have young coal fleets and new plants still under development. These plants are expected to operate for decades and risk becoming “stranded assets” if they retire early.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 19, 2024

When those 16 nations went to the bank for financing, they were told there was no point in trying. There’s a lot at stake: over the next decade, Canada will see around 470 natural resource projects , both conventional and “clean economy”–related, developed at a cost of nearly $525 billion, according to the FNMPC.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

For financial institutions such as banks, insurance companies and investment managers, scope 3 emissions from supply chains and lending/investment portfolios are often more complex than for other industries. Change is already underway within the fossil fuel industry, as developments in the Netherlands, United States and Australia indicate.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 27, 2025

Alongside stranded asset dangers for investors, the early phase-out of emerging markets coal fleets leaves countries open to legal, financial risks. Currently, despite a recent update issued by developed nations involved in JETPs in Indonesia and elsewhere, progress on existing frameworks has been slow and fraught with complications.

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Richard Matthews

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Fossil fuels are at high risk of becoming stranded assets and PEs have a significant stake in the energy sector. In the first half of 2021, 80 percent of energy money went towards renewables or 25 times fossil fuel asset funding. Banks are now providing more funding to clean sources of energy than to fossil fuels.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

FCA rule revision would require fossil fuel companies to explain reserve development while considering climate goals. Last December, NGOs Reclaim Finance and BankTrack led 67 organisations in calling on the world’s top 50 banks to cease all financial support for new metallurgical coal production and expansion.

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Chris Hall

JULY 14, 2023

However, individual, specific, and isolated divestments do not make a significant difference due to the abundance of liquidity in the market.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Net zero guidance Birt co-led the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change’s (IIGCC) work to develop net zero guidance for real estate. CRREM also facilitates analysis of stranded asset risk and makes decarbonisation in the commercial real estate sector measurable, he says.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

Even Germany’s decision to permanently shelve Nord Stream 2 , the partial ejection of Russian banks from Swift , and oil and gas majors exiting equity partnerships with Russian companies in recent days have been ignored by the former intelligence officer. Economic sanctions have so far failed to shake President Vladimir Putin’s resolve.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 5, 2023

The ISSB standard comprises two separate standards – S1, Sustainability and S2, Climate – although additional themes are under development. This could enable banks or fossil fuel companies , for example, to under-report climate risks or metrics based on an argument that fossil fuels will be needed for many years to come.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 20, 2022

C or below will leave a substantial amount of fossil fuels unburned and could strand considerable fossil fuel infrastructure. Depending on its availability, CCS could allow fossil fuels to be used longer, reducing stranded assets.”. Research and development funding has been created in the US, Australia, Canada, Japan and the UK.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

With the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and environmental groups all in agreement, he added, “getting rid of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies is now a common sense bottom line.” “The simple reality is that it’s no longer free to pollute in Canada,” Guilbeault told media Monday morning. “We A Trans Mountain Pipeline Bailout?

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Chris Hall

MAY 11, 2022

For example, a decision not to invest in a high-carbon asset because of financial concerns about stranded assets is likely to be seen as consistent with fiduciary duties, providing that the decision is based on credible assumptions and robust processes. However, they also depend upon and can adversely affect them.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Mobilising public and private capital to fund the net zero transition efforts of emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) has been a central theme of discussions at COP27 in Egypt. . This explainer will explore the blueprint for the US ETA and consider the role of VCMs is channelling finance from developed markets to EMDEs. .

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Chris Hall

JULY 20, 2022

While Group of Seven governments are announcing grand plans , asset owners in developed markets are increasingly keen to play their part in this transition. . SAS would achieve all Africa’s energy-related development goals “on time and in full”, as well as meeting climate change commitments. of GDP), with two ? estimated ?

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Chris Hall

MARCH 29, 2022

Leading US banks and insurers will face votes at their upcoming AGMs asking for policies aligned with the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) net zero roadmap , after challenges to shareholder resolutions were rejected. . Risk of stranded assets . at Trillium Asset Management.? “In degrees Celsius.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Read live updates from on the ground in Glasgow, including the latest business announcements, policy breakthroughs and other key developments. . Over 750 companies from across the world are urging governments to phase out coal-fired power generation by 2030 for developed countries and by 2040 for other countries.

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Richard Matthews

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

As reviewed in the Hechinger Report , a fossil fuel-funded group by the name of the NEED Project (National Energy Education Development Project) has made thousands of pages of K-12 industry-friendly climate lesson plans available online. Such petro-pedagogy is not a new phenomenon.

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