Climate Change Greenwashing Stranded Assets 
Corporate Knights
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
A coalition of environmental groups is calling on the federal government to regulate climate commitments made by banks and other financial institutions to avoid greenwashing and accelerate change. . The post Advocates urge regulation of banks’ climate commitments to avoid greenwashing appeared first on Corporate Knights.
Chris Hall
APRIL 14, 2023
So let’s set the record straight: these shareholder resolutions call for banks to adopt responsible guardrails for transition financing, and to insure against both greenwashing and over-exposure to risky lending practices. Proponents of the resolutions acknowledge the near-term need for fossil fuels.
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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.
Chris Hall
JANUARY 30, 2024
Investors will be increasingly subject to direct climate litigation risk in 2024 rather than indirect risks through investments as the types of cases brought evolve. The risk could also manifest in strategic litigation being brought or encouraged by NGOs seeking to compel or exert pressure on investors to change investment strategy.
Corporate Knights
JULY 25, 2023
The Fine Print on Carbon Credits The definitions in the federal document take a fairly expansive view of “inefficient” subsidies that “encourage wasteful consumption, reduce our energy security, impede investment in clean energy sources, and undermine efforts to deal with the threat of climate change,” as the G20 defined the term in 2009.
Chris Hall
JANUARY 30, 2024
Investors will be increasingly subject to direct climate litigation risk in 2024 rather than indirect risks through investments as the types of cases brought evolve. The risk could also manifest in strategic litigation being brought or encouraged by NGOs seeking to compel or exert pressure on investors to change investment strategy.
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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