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.

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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

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

With insurance companies already withdrawing or outpricing coverage in huge areas of the globe this will result in the damages models being recalculated and the folly of using discount rates to calculate those damages will be clear – the discounting to present value of damages is less relevant when they are occurring…. errr …in the present.

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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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