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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Chris Hall

JANUARY 26, 2022

Aviva Investors expressly referred to divestment as a potential strategy to achieve these goals. But he said Blackrock would not pursue a divestment policy from fossil fuels, although the firm would allow clients to do so. Other leading managers were more circumspect in their 2022 outlines.

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Chris Hall

MAY 3, 2022

Reclaim Finance notes a “growing trend” within the investor community to condemn exclusion and divestment from heavy emitters as both “unrealistic and ineffective” tools to decarbonise the economy. Reclaim Finance argues that the most effective investors use the threat of future divestment as a cudgel to enhance their engagement efforts.

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Jon Hale

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

End of Week Notes While governments struggle to act The COP26 summit in Glasgow underscored two big things for me: One is that the world’s sovereign nations are not yet able to muster a fully coordinated and cooperative response to climate change, despite the scientific consensus on the causes?—?the the burning of fossil fuels?—?and

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

Alongside the progress of a bill in California calling for fossil fuel divestment by public-sector pensions, and the SEC’s plans for climate-risk disclosures , this new assault on greenwashing moves US policy closer to its European counterparts, where fund disclosure rules are already reshaping the market.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

At COP26, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) – an umbrella body which includes the NZIA and other sub-sector groups – announced that firms with US$130 trillion AUM had committed to reducing their financed emissions to net zero by 2050, to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2023

Covid-19 gave us a glimpse of how assets can be repriced in emissions-intensive sectors and the bounce back bounty in coal and oil and gas has been very unwelcome in fossil fuel divested funds, but none of it matters any more.

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Chris Hall

MAY 13, 2022

Overall, fossil fuel firms’ strategies are still too reliant on asset divestment and unproven technologies, according to a new Carbon Tracker report. BP’s climate strategy was passed yesterday by 88% of shareholders, despite concerns from campaigners that it does not put the firm on a 1.5C

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

At COP26, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero ( GFANZ ) declared a sector-wide commitment of US$130 trillion – a number that has increased over the year to US$150 trillion – of private capital to transition the global economy to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. On this critical issue, there has been no absence of good intent.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 24, 2022

California required SCE and other investorowned utilities to divest the majority of their generation assets beginning in the late 1990s in order to promote competitive energy pricing. Among other things, SCE divested from and terminated all contracts with coal-burning resources and, since 2015, has had no coal in its specified portfolio.

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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.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 23, 2022

Australia adopted an economy-wide target of net zero emissions by 2050 in the run-up to COP26. At COP26 in Glasgow, Australia refused to commit to phasing out coal. This explainer looks at the state of play in Australia and the role of investors in accelerating its transition to a low-carbon economy.

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

International cooperation is the goal of the annual Conference of the Parties (COP) and despite being dismissed as a failure, the final agreement at COP26 emphasized the importance of nature and ecosystems, including protecting forests and biodiversity. trillion in assets, have committed to divest. protect lands and forests.

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