GreenBiz
OCTOBER 13, 2020
Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change? When it comes to the climate crisis, it’s not just what you make and sell, it’s what you do, and for whom you do it. According to the group’s scorecard , Vault 100 firms: litigated 286 cases exacerbating climate change (versus three cases mitigating it).
Corporate Knights
JANUARY 27, 2023
Divesting from fossil fuels isn’t just good for the planet. billion in returns over the last 10 years by not divesting from fossil fuels. And in 2018, Ireland became the first country to divest its national investment fund completely from fossil fuel companies. It can be good for financial returns, too.
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GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement. As fossil fuel companies' social license to operate becomes increasingly frayed, more industries in their orbit are getting entangled in the reputational quagmire that is now part and parcel of any activity that exacerbates the climate crisis.
Corporate Knights
JANUARY 24, 2023
In August of that same year, reinsurance company Munich Re published a report on the devastating impacts of recent floods, warning of the risks of climate change. It’s the result of rapidly increasing underwriting losses to climate-driven events that insurers and reinsurers are seeing worldwide.” In Canada, that year saw $2.1
GreenBiz
AUGUST 13, 2020
This helps explain why more than $11 trillion have been divested from fossil ownership, even before the University of California announced that it was divesting its $80 billion portfolio. Surely the world runs on oil. This will just be a blip to what is an essential industry for humankind, won’t it? economy $150 billion annually.
Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
By pledging to grow its portfolio of oil and gas assets, CPPIB is making an alarming bet on the world failing to limit global heating to safe levels, putting the CPP at risk from an accelerating energy transition and our retirement security at risk from catastrophic climate change. This “consensus” is imaginary.
ESG Today
OCTOBER 19, 2023
The guidelines set out MAS’ supervisory expectations for the financial institutions to have a sound transition planning process, enabling effective climate change mitigation and adaptation measures by their customers and portfolio companies to manage the transition to a net zero economy, as well as the physical effects of climate change.
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