Climate Change, Greenwashing and Stranded Assets

Investors Face Direct Risk from Climate Litigation

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.

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Let Experts Lead Engagement

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.

Global Economy

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Investors Face Rising Direct Risk from Climate Litigation

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.

Greenwashing

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ICYMI, Governments and Regulators are Making the Running

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.

Net Zero

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Investors Still in the Dark on Climate Risks to Firms’ Finances

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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COP27: Get finance flowing in the right direction so business can cut emissions faster

We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Loss and damage relates to climate-related impacts which cannot be adapted to. Loss and damage is happening because we have not adequately tackled climate change, cut emissions or taken action to adapt. Will a company’s investment take it a step closer towards a net zero world, or will it be a stranded asset tomorrow?

Net Zero

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Advocates urge regulation of banks’ climate commitments to avoid greenwashing

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.

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Business-as-usual no Longer an Option for Banks

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.

Banking

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Investors Search for Answers

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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Keeping on the Straight and Narrow

Chris Hall

MAY 4, 2022

The taskforce will also consider guidance on avoiding greenwashing strategies, and the simplification of assessing, comparing and interpreting transition plans. . The third recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on climate mitigation identified CCS as an important solution to reducing emissions in hard-to-abate sectors.

Net Zero

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At long last, Canada restricts oil and gas subsidies (except for all the loopholes)

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.

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Energy Transition Accelerator

Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

And there are wider issues around the VCMs already in operation, such as credit pricing, third-party verification and reducing the risk of greenwashing. . trillion by 2030, to boost resilience and deal with the loss and damage caused by climate change impacts. . degrees of climate change. .

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SEC Allows Climate Votes at Major US Institutions

Chris Hall

MARCH 29, 2022

Shareholders at other North American banks – including Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Bank of Montreal and TD Bank – have also filed proposals asking for lending and financing policies consistent with the IEA’s scenario for limiting climate change to 1.5 Risk of stranded assets . degrees Celsius.

Net Zero

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Shocker: EU Set To Kill Off Its Own Sustainable Finance Rules By Greenwashing Fossil Gas

CleanTechnica

JANUARY 4, 2022

The European Commission attempted to bury news of its last-minute move which jeopardises the EU’s Green Deal and greenwashes fossil fuels, Transport & Environment (T&E) says. Originally published on Transport & Environment.

Greenwashing

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Stranded Assets & 5 Top Greenwashing Topics — Interview With Assaad Razzouk

CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Part 1 of the interview focused on Assaad’s career history and then 5 top greenwashing topics. Part 2, below, starts with a discussion about stranded assets and then resumes Assaad’s list of greenwashing topics. […].

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