Chris Hall

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Investors continue to suffer from poor-quality climate-related information in company reports and other statements, particularly from firms with the highest CO2 emissions. That’s the finding of a major new report by Carbon Tracker, the independent think tank that researches the effects of climate change on financial markets.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Reasons are manifold but include better risk management, earlier identification of stranded assets, and the realisation that Paris Agreement goals are in jeopardy. The results affect divestments in our portfolio.” Climate-intensive companies tend to be highlighted by this metric and yield the best and worst scores.

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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 Taking a tough stance in the AGM season may not be effective without broad-based support or a deeper toolbox, as UK asset owners found out last year.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 23, 2022

The report warns that fossil fuel demand will peak as government policies to cut emissions, asset owners’ net-zero commitments and the rapid growth of clean energy technologies combine to transition the economy towards renewables. C, in line with the Paris Agreement goal. . “If

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Chris Hall

JULY 14, 2023

We have primarily concentrated on the oil and gas industry, but the outcomes have been disappointingly limited, particularly with recent target reversals. “It may be necessary to reconsider our approach.” However, for some investors the limited progress of the oil and gas industry on climate forced them to cut ties with the sector.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2023

Swedish government pension fund AP7 is a universal owner that manages around SEK1 trillion (US$968 billion) in AuM, with 90% of its assets invested in a diversified equities portfolio across more than 3,000 companies.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The common use of ‘materiality’ and ‘scenario analysis’ reported by managers suggests these are already prevalent topics, while scarce mentions of ‘divestment effectiveness assessment’ or ‘enlightened active ownership’ “is consistent with the view that, in general, they are future behaviours,” the report said. A long way to go”.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2023

For investors and companies with assets within those key biodiversity areas, this raises the issue of stranded assets. A limited toolbox A further lesson from investors’ experience of understanding and addressing climate risk has been to not let perfect being the enemy of good, from the perspective of information quality.

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Richard Matthews

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

University activists are increasingly citing the oil and gas industry’s targeting of kids in the classroom as another reason to divest from fossil fuels. Climate education is a problem at many of America’s 100,000 public schools. trillion climate-focused infrastructure bill. The divestment solution.

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