3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Understanding how SOEs fit into China’s green reform agenda can help investors identify companies that are driving change—and stand to benefit from efforts to combat climate change. Global efforts to combat climate change won’t be successful without China. The Investment Case. Engagement Goals. SOEs Are Everywhere.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

There is now 783 gigawatts (GW) of oil- and gas-power capacity under development—projects that are either announced or in the pre-construction and construction phases,” wrote Jenny Martos, project manager of GEM’s global gas tracker, and Julie Joly, the organization’s oil and gas programme director, in a post for Carbon Brief.

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ESG Today

APRIL 20, 2023

CDP runs a global environmental disclosure system, enabling investors and other stakeholders to measure and track organizations’ performance in key environmental sustainability areas including climate change, deforestation, and water security. Many jurisdictions have also recently introduced laws banning the use of single-use plastics.

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3BL Media

MAY 17, 2022

For decades, scientists have studied the risks of increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on the earth’s climate. The signals of early-stage climate change are becoming unmistakably visible. As the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on climate adaptation stated: “Global warming, reaching 1.5°C

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3BL Media

AUGUST 30, 2022

CDP and Planet Tracker’s High and Dry: How Water Issues Are Stranding Assets , May 2022 report recognizes that “Water risk is already stranding assets across major sectors of the global economy.”. Ecolab has developed publicly available tools such as Smart Water Navigator and Water Risk Monetizer.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Just as critically, transition plans are about embracing the booming new clean economy, creating new markets, and investing in the next batch of winners as this shift continues to accelerate exponentially— and avoiding being left behind with dwindling markets, outmoded business models, and stranded assets. This year, a record $1.8

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ESG Today

JULY 25, 2023

The guidelines released alongside the framework provide a standardized methodology to ensure that future government support is aligned with the country’s climate and energy priorities, and precludes funding of discretionary programs not aligned with the framework.

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Chris Hall

JULY 31, 2023

A groundswell of concern is developing around the soundness of economic research used to underpin climate-related risk and investment models. Some actuaries are arguing that “narrative scenarios” – qualitative information to accompany the quantitative data to provide context around climate-related metrics – would help.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 25, 2023

Build more investor confidence in green infrastructure projects The greatest fear that many investors have around investing in green infrastructure projects is that they become “stranded assets.” As a result, the private sector will have to invest in the new infrastructure needed for sustainable development goals.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

Officials cast it as one major part of a process that also includes a phaseout of public financing for domestic fossil fuel projects through Crown agencies like Export Development Canada. In a release Monday, Oil Change International placed the total at $50 billion since 2019. Those guidelines are due to be released in 2024.

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Sustainability Matters

MARCH 20, 2023

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) has issued its final warning for the 2020s to act swiftly on climate change. While this is a summary report of work we’d already seen in development, there is no doubt the findings of this report will be dire. For more details, visit: [link].

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 13, 2020

The report’s authors appear to demonstrate how this resistance will escalate as new leases are sold and crude oil projects are developed, threatening the long-term viability of projects and investments. For decades we have made it clear that we don’t want drilling and mining in our territories.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Panellists warned PRI in Person delegates against the risk of stranded assets, insisting on the need to prepare society for challenges to come. There are the planetary limits, and the social new contract that we must sign – we have to see our development within these two limits. Progress is heterogeneous. Canada is lagging.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Workers, suppliers, communities and consumers should not be forgotten by institutional investors when developing net zero transition strategies. . The post Stranded Workers a Risk in Unjust Transition appeared first on ESG Investor. It has to be an ever-improving process.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 8, 2022

At COP26, IFRS introduced a new International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) to develop a comprehensive global baseline of sustainability disclosure standards. This is for good reason: buildings and properties have been one of the first major assets to be directly impacted by climate change.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

According to the International Energy Agency , the world needs to cut 90% of coal use by 2050 and phase out all unabated coal power plants by 2040 to achieve net-zero emissions and avoid the worst impacts of climate change. These plants are expected to operate for decades and risk becoming “stranded assets” if they retire early.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

For institutional investor clients that understand the risks that climate change (and other systemic risks) pose to their portfolio returns, engagement is an invaluable tool to help mitigate climate-related risks. For climate-related financial risks, decarbonisation and real-world emissions reductions are essential.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2023

This year, investors filed resolutions at seven major US and Canadian banks — Bank of America, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, and Royal Bank of Canada — urging these banks to adopt policies to phase-out clients engaging in new fossil fuel exploration and development.

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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. Investors are being urged to support the inclusion of detailed climate disclosure requirements for fossil fuel firms in planned new UK prospectus rules ahead of a deadline next month.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2023

Beyond disclosure According to Segal, the intent of CAFA is to go “beyond disclosure” by requiring financial institutions of all types to align capital with climate action. “[The bill] places assurance that financial institutions will develop transition plans that align with keeping warming below 1.5°C,” C,” she said. “It

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Change is already underway within the fossil fuel industry, as developments in the Netherlands, United States and Australia indicate. Set a target The Science Based Targets initiative ( SBTi ) has developed guidelines on setting science-based targets (SBTs) for the financial sector that require the inclusion of financed emissions.

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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. In the USA, the Green New Deal has led to national discussions on infrastructure and climate change.

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Richard Matthews

APRIL 20, 2022

Sustainable economies like these can help us to realize the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Our economic system has failed to address long-standing threats like climate change, biodiversity loss, disease, water scarcity, and inequality. The inspiration economy.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2023

Jose Pugas , Head of Responsible Investments and Engagement at JGP Asset Management , explains why scal ing -u p finance between the global north and south for nature-based solutions is essential to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss. Yet the world is changing.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

To better stimulate investment in climate resilience across Australia and New Zealand, the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) has developed its ‘ Road to Resilience ’ strategy. Estimated annual adaptation financing needs sit between US$160-340 billion by 2030 and US$315-565 billion by 2050.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 12, 2022

Noting that the number of court cases being brought against companies on climate-related grounds has recently topped 2,000, the report says some plaintiffs are seeking to recover the costs of climate change itself, or the expense caused by having to adapt to it. Resort to the courts. Vital role of non-execs.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 16, 2022

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. Launched in 2018, they act as a global guiding framework for banks, insurers and investors.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

“It’s a dangerous game to play, and it is undermining investor confidence; there are certain issues, like climate change, where political games shouldn’t be played.” Matthew isn’t the only one dissatisfied with progress.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

When it comes to gathering the collective will to tackle climate change, it is often argued that public policy actions and private sector commitments are mutually reinforcing, spurring each side to go further and faster. The private sector’s ability to accelerate the pace of net zero transition is open to question.

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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. Should Sub-Saharan African nations continue to develop new coal-fired power generation capacity, they are likely to face similar challenges and costs to those seen in Bangladesh and Pakistan.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 3, 2024

C of warming, the Inevitable Policy Response calculates that current government policies, ie those in place pre-COP28, will only limit climate change to 1.8°C C and to develop a “whole-of-government approach” to the transition of the real economy to net zero. C has not lessened; if anything, it has increased,” he says.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Will the promised $100 billion per year be delivered by wealthier countries to enable developing countries to cut emissions and adapt to climate impacts? . Loss and damage relates to climate-related impacts which cannot be adapted to. There has been significant development on reporting standards since COP26.

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Sense and Sustainability

JANUARY 12, 2022

Using this definition, the environmental pillar most notably encompasses considerations of climate change in terms of physical and transitional risk for companies, given the projected impacts of climate change. It also includes risks related to resource scarcity (e.g. water), deforestation, waste, and pollution.

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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. . C, in line with the Paris Agreement goal. . C, in line with the Paris Agreement goal. . “If

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Panellists warned PRI in Person delegates against the risk of stranded assets, insisting on the need to prepare society for challenges to come. There are the planetary limits, and the social new contract that we must sign – we have to see our development within these two limits. Progress is heterogeneous. Canada is lagging.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Transition plans should demonstrate alignment with 2030 decarbonisation targets, says UN Climate Envoy. In addition, institutions should have interim decarbonisation targets that are “consistent” with the 2030 target, set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , of reducing CO2 emissions by around 45% from 2010 levels.

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