Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2023

Delaying those actions “would lock in high-emissions infrastructure, raise risks of stranded assets and cost escalation, reduce feasibility, and increase losses and damages.” But there’s still time to take action if countries pick the right decarbonization options and scale up fast.

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We Mean Business Coalition

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Or that slashing regulation means being more competitive, even though a fossil fuel-led race to the bottom exposes our economies to insecurity, instability and stranded assets. There is a better story to tell one rooted in both present market realities and a vision of a liveable and prosperous future.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 25, 2023

You’d expect a company so directly affected by climate change to be jumping on the decarbonization bandwagon. But companies won’t meet the challenge by dodging it, or lobbying themselves into a corner, surrounded by their own stranded assets. On the face of it, it is.

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ESG Today

JULY 25, 2023

Canada’s Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault said: “By eliminating inefficient fossil fuel subsidies, we are encouraging smart and efficient government investment decisions that can increase Canada’s competitiveness in a decarbonizing global economy, while avoiding creation of stranded assets.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

Those numbers left any Indigenous investor with the prospect of losing money on the deal and facing “the likely prospect of being saddled with a stranded asset,” independent economist Robyn Allan, a former president and CEO of the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, told The Energy Mix at the time.

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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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Corporate Knights

JUNE 14, 2024

Canadian provinces must rein in their expanding gas systems or risk incurring staggering costs from stranded assets and failure to meet net-zero targets, the Canadian Climate Institute (CCI) warns in a new report. Higher Peak Electricity Demand The report says electricity systems will have to grow 2.6-

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 30, 2019

The dialogue explored the vision and challenges for countries to achieve decarbonization by 2050. In the LAC region, Costa Rica and Chile are committed to this goal, along with other countries such as Colombia, currently exploring different pathways towards deep decarbonization.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2023

Analysis in the banks’ opposition statements would have investors believe these resolutions call for an immediate cessation of business relations with energy sector clients, and for a stymying of activities that would help high-emitting companies decarbonize. Proponents of the resolutions acknowledge the near-term need for fossil fuels.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In the first installment of this blog series, “ Accelerating Decarbonization of the World’s Digital Infrastructure ,” I defined and explained why the next frontier for innovation is sustainable computing. We have an enormous opportunity to accelerate the decarbonization of digital infrastructure through our public-cloud partner ecosystem.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 25, 2022

Positive signs came out of the G7 climate and energy ministers’ meeting in May: commitments to end international fossil fuel financing and phase out coal on the pathway towards decarbonized power systems by 2035. Instead, such investments will leave companies and economies with costly stranded assets in the years ahead.

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We Mean Business Coalition

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The company data produced by non-financial reporting helps investors to identify which companies are investing in the clean energy transition and can highlight gaps in action which may lead to stranded assets and hence costs.

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Chris Hall

MAY 19, 2023

Market turbulence in 2022 seems not to have had a negative effect on this asset class either. Combined with the regulatory incentives that are in place to accelerate investment into decarbonizing energy, investment in renewable energy infrastructure and software has the ability to cut through market cycles.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

For business, investments in fossil fuels are now far riskier because the market expects them to become stranded assets in the foreseeable future. This interdependence will help drive ambition as businesses feel the pressure to decarbonize to help their suppliers and customers meet their own emission reduction targets.

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Richard Matthews

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Fossil fuels are at high risk of becoming stranded assets and PEs have a significant stake in the energy sector. PEs are ideally suited to address decarbonization the issue at the core of the climate crises. More Funds Diverted to Sources of Renewable Energy. The same logic can be applied to other sustainability challenges.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

trillion in real estate assets under management now committed to halving emissions by 2030, along with 20% of architects and engineers. . And over additional 40 businesses have signed the World Green Building Council’s commitment to decarbonize the built environment across their portfolios and business activities.

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