COP26 Development Divestment 
Corporate Knights
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
For the leaders of the divestment movement, which encourages institutional investors to sell off their shares in fossil fuel companies, winning isn’t everything. But after a decade of determined lobbying, the divest side is suddenly doing a lot of winning. That tally, they noted, is bigger than the combined GDP of the U.S.
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
DESCRIPTION: On the heels of COP26, investors are not only thinking about the climate-related risks of companies within their portfolios, but they are also considering whether to make new investments or maintain existing investments in high-emitting companies or countries going forward. SOURCE: Franklin Templeton.
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GreenBiz
JULY 22, 2020
From companies looking to select cleaner manufacturing suppliers, to investors seeking to divest from polluting industries, to consumers making choices about which businesses to patronize, one thing is clear: a reliable way to measure where emissions are coming from is necessary," they wrote. And let’s go to the semiconductor industry.
Chris Hall
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
Pledge to divest over next two years follows mounting pressure from protesters. Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW) has announced it will stop investing in companies in the fossil fuel sector that do not commit to the Paris Agreement and ambitions outlined at COP26. Setting a 1.5°C The previous limits were 30% and 10%, respectively.
3BL Media
MAY 17, 2022
DESCRIPTION: Last year marked a global shift in corporations adopting low-carbon and net-zero pledges as experts at the United Nations Climate Change Conference , COP26, declared that the climate crisis is at a critical inflection point. SOURCE: Antea Group. C commitment and 7,126 companies have joined the Race to Zero.
Chris Hall
MAY 31, 2024
Head of Sustainability at CDPQ Bertrand Millot highlights the pension fund’s focus on decarbonising the real economy, as well as comprehensively divesting from the oil industry. In addition to divesting from oil, CDPQ plans to deepen its practice in the biodiversity space and expand the scope of its commitments in nature-positive themes.
Chris Hall
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
C increase over pre-industrial temperatures was hanging by a thread at the end of COP26, subsequent economic and geopolitical events appear to have dealt a blow to those ambitions – at least in the short term. The sense of optimism at COP26 turned out to be short lived. “We Beast from the east.
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