Environmental News Bits

JULY 23, 2021

Both climate change and the transition to a carbon neutral economy pose substantial challenges for the economy and the financial system, with the potential to affect growth and inflation in the short term, but also over much longer horizons. Read the full speech at BIS.

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GreenBiz

MAY 20, 2021

degrees Celsius and avert the worst effects of climate change, but to do so we have to cease oil and gas exploration immediately. If the world heeds that advice, we’ll leave a lot of stranded assets lying around. In its landmark Net Zero report , the IEA said that there is still a path to limit global warming to 1.5

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Every dollar not spent in new ways to cut GHG and to stop the voracious linear economy is investing in future stranded assets. He wants us to embrace the opportunity of climate change and investing; climate risk is investment risk.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 9, 2022

A study published in the journal Nature found that Canada alone will face $100 billion in stranded assets by 2036, representing 35% of the book value of oil and gas properties for all oil and gas issuers listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2023

A stark choice between climate stability and global devastation is the constant drumbeat from a landmark report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Already, “widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere , and biosphere have occurred,” the report says.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 25, 2023

The shrivelled Rhine of 2018 became a harbinger of the devastating impact that climate change will have on the backbone of the German economy. You’d expect a company so directly affected by climate change to be jumping on the decarbonization bandwagon. On the face of it, it is.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

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3BL Media

MARCH 25, 2022

DESCRIPTION: ESG in Action As climate change intensifies, so do the physical and transition risks to industries and companies. But how do investors quantify those changes? Historically, they’ve measured a portfolio’s climate impact based on its carbon footprint or weighted average carbon intensity. By Sara Rosner.

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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.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 9, 2022

Research commissioned by the Changing Markets Foundation surveying 201 respondents from the investment community shows that 82% agreed that climate change presents a material risk to meat and dairy industry-related investments and 84% believe that a lack of mitigation of climate change could lead to stranded assets in this industry.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Still, producers want the federal government to include exported LNG as part of its climate change strategy, including policies for preferential financing. By the 2030s, the costly new LNG export terminals will either become stranded assets or lock in emission growth that takes us in the wrong direction on climate change.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

These represent a stranded asset risk of hundreds of billions of dollars and potentially locking in tens of billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.” And if you don’t do all of the above, I’m sorry, but I don’t think you could attend to climate change issues.”

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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.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 19, 2024

Those current climate projections prompted world leaders at the last UN climate summit, COP28 in Dubai, to agree to “transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems, in a just, orderly and equitable manner” to avoid the worst of climate change. But carbon capture remains unproven and expensive – a $2.4-billion

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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.”.

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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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Chris Hall

JULY 31, 2023

Creon Butler, Director, Global Economy and Finance Programme at think tank Chatham House, made a similar warning of a “probable sharp adjustment” this month , saying that “financial markets did not yet reflect climate risk” despite the clear severe economic and financial consequences of climate change.

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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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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. Otherwise, they will be faced with having to help stranded assets as the market for fossil fuels dies over the next 10 years.” For more details, visit: [link].

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 13, 2020

There has been mounting pressure on the financial industry, as policymaker and activist attention has turned to its role in funding both large-scale deforestation in the Amazon and a climate crisis that is in danger of running away. For decades we have made it clear that we don’t want drilling and mining in our territories.

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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.” To prevent this, governments must make a long-term commitment to a green energy source such as hydrogen or nuclear.

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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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3BL Media

AUGUST 8, 2022

This is for good reason: buildings and properties have been one of the first major assets to be directly impacted by climate change. Staying up to speed on the latest trends in ESG disclosure will ensure your business is prepared to meet changing stakeholder demands.

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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. We’re going to approach peak oil and gas, and there will be stranded assets and impacts on communities [which] we need to prepare for. Progress is heterogeneous.

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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

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The report , published by the London School of Economics’ Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (LSE GRI), outlines how financial institutions can integrate “the social dimension” to ensure a just transition to net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2023

Wildfires and weak ambition The bill is progressing against a backdrop of increasing evidence of the physical risks of climate change in Canada. Thousands of people have been evacuated, with millions more exposed to air pollution caused by wildfires across the country.

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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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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Earlier this week, climate change think tank Carbon Tracker hosted a webinar to highlight the opportunity for investors to influence the FCA’s Public Offers and Admissions to Trading Regulations regime (POATR) consultation. One of the things that is concerning us as investors is the increasing politicisation of climate change.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 5, 2022

Members of the IIGCC demand improved transparency on economic impacts of climate change and associated policy action. . trillion in assets are challenging corporate audit committee chairs on their continued omission of climate risks in financial reporting ahead of the 2022 annual general meeting (AGM) season. .

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ESG Today

MARCH 14, 2024

Commenting on the updated targets, Follow This founder Mark van Baal accused the company of “backtracking” on its climate ambitions, putting the company’s future at risk “through policy interventions, disruptive innovation, stranded assets, and accountability for the costs of climate change.”

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 30, 2024

Successful litigation forcing companies to recognise stranded assets, accelerate their net zero transition, or pay damages for their contribution to environmental and human rights harms could pose significant financial shocks in some industries, with investors paying the price.”

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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. Brazil is the most biologically diverse country in the world.

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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. Finance climate action Financing climate action can take many forms, such as green bonds or sustainability-linked loans. A simple example is that of a financial investment in a mining company.

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 30, 2019

A common message from Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director of SDSN, is the critical need to articulate a clear long-term vision and not an incremental approach in order to avoid stranded assets and technology lock-in which will inhibit the energy transformation necessary to achieve the Paris Agreement goals.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2023

These shareholder proposals also encourage banks to be mindful of facilitating and upholding business plans that invest in the development of new assets at disproportionate risk of becoming stranded assets. Proponents of the resolutions acknowledge the near-term need for fossil fuels.

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