3BL Media

MAY 17, 2022

The financial system is increasingly seen as crucial to averting such a scenario – not only to shift toward green investments, like renewable energy, but also to reallocate capital from fossil fuel-related investments to be consistent with net-zero goals. Today, we need three to six times more investment to maintain a livable climate.

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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.” As a result, the private sector will have to invest in the new infrastructure needed for sustainable development goals.

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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 some meeting participants warned that those delays are baked into the process by some of the key assumptions in the IPCC’s modelling. Overshooting 1.5°C

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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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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Research by the International Energy Agency (IEA) shows that a major push on energy efficiency could save the equivalent of China’s annual energy usage, as well as 33% of the total additional net zero emission reductions required by 2030. It is also a positive stimulator of growth.”

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Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2022

Ex-BoE chief calls for “radical new approach” to mobilising investment in emerging and developed markets; also warns of stranded assets. Carney was speaking at the Net Zero Delivery Summit, organised by the City of London Corporation, in association with COP26 Presidency UK and GFANZ. C net zero transition.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The UK’s net zero transition depends on huge amounts of private capital that can only be unlocked through climate policy certainty. trillion (US$1.89

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3BL Media

AUGUST 23, 2022

In the eBook, Black & Veatch’s water and energy experts propose that developing robust decarbonisation roadmaps will help mining companies manage and understand limited budgets, technology timelines and complex regulations over potentially a 30-year span, a timeframe similar to making major infrastructure investments.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

However, the question remains whether the programmes now being developed will deliver success if they are bifurcating their engagements. New offerings Engagement of portfolio companies is a key feature of these new investment management offerings, in contrast to the extant voting choice programmes, which only cover proxy voting.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

With global trade highly dependent on shipping, achieving net zero may put wind in the sails of other industries’ climate ambitions. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has estimated that maritime trade volumes will triple by 2050.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Financial institutions need to segment their portfolios into transition, net zero-aligned and stranded assets and develop clear emissions reduction plans in line with recognised 2030 and 2050 targets, said Mark Carney, Founder and Co-chair of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ).

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2023

Even so, we have developed a pipeline of over ten large nature-based solutions to be financed during 2023, with an overall potential of 40,000 hectares of agroforestry and productive restoration. It’s part of our fiduciary duty to be at the forefront of efforts to scale up and re-allocate capital. Yet the world is changing.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2023

Beyond disclosure According to Segal, the intent of CAFA is to go “beyond disclosure” by requiring financial institutions of all types to align capital with climate action. “[The bill] places assurance that financial institutions will develop transition plans that align with keeping warming below 1.5°C,” C,” she said. “It billion (US$4.7

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

If you’re struggling to work out whether big oil is serious about reducing carbon emissions in line with net zero 2050 targets, you’re in good company. The UK firm’s updated net zero strategy was hailed by some as a blueprint for the industry, and was welcomed by major investors. But how can you be sure?

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3BL Media

AUGUST 8, 2022

At COP26, IFRS introduced a new International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) to develop a comprehensive global baseline of sustainability disclosure standards. The World Economic Forum launched the Measuring Stakeholder Capitalism Initiative seeking to accelerate convergence among the major ESG standard setters.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

These countries need affordable, reliable and clean energy to support their socio-economic development and to mitigate climate change. This stands in contrast with China’s domestic energy policy, which is prioritizing a transition to renewable energy, peak emissions before 2030 and a net-zero economy by 2060.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Will the promised $100 billion per year be delivered by wealthier countries to enable developing countries to cut emissions and adapt to climate impacts? . Innovative thinking that develops new models of cooperation can also effectively channel private finance to the places it is most needed. What are the barriers to action?

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Chris Hall

JULY 31, 2023

A groundswell of concern is developing around the soundness of economic research used to underpin climate-related risk and investment models.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

The private sector’s ability to accelerate the pace of net zero transition is open to question. Perhaps these outcomes should not be a surprise after BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, described many 2022 climate resolutions as “ prescriptive or constraining ”.

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Chris Hall

MAY 19, 2023

Yet, despite this uncertainty, decarbonisation is a megatrend; driven by the need to reach net zero by 2050 if the world is to avoid catastrophic climate change. Meanwhile, the EU recently announced the Net Zero Industry Act to rival this plan, and “make Europe the home of cleantech and industrial innovation on the road to net zero”.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 23, 2022

Carbon Tracker suggested changes to listings rules would reduce investors’ exposures, as would the further development of alternative indexes. . This could lead to vast amounts of stranded assets if oil, gas and coal companies continue with business as usual. . C, in line with the Paris Agreement goal. . “If

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Chris Hall

APRIL 25, 2022

Speaking at the City Week financial services symposium in London, she echoed the views of the UN-convened Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) that 1.5°C C alignment requires asset owners to engage with corporate value chains, policymakers and asset managers. . Collaborative mindset . C,” he said.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2024

iv In 2023, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) set a target of achieving net zero emissions by 2050. Roger Holm, President of Wärtsilä Marine & Executive Vice President at Wärtsilä Corporation says: “Achieving net zero in shipping by 2050 will require all the tools in the toolbox, including sustainable fuels.

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Chris Hall

MAY 7, 2024

Mining giant BHP’s bid to acquire Anglo-American would create the world’s biggest shipper of metallurgical coal and a global mega-polluter, exposing shareholders to stranded asset risk as the world moves away from fossil fuels, a think tank has warned. German think tank Agora also predicts that DRI will outcompete CCUS.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 21, 2023

This AGM season, investors have filed numerous shareholder resolutions to accelerate finance sector action to address climate risks and meet net zero commitments.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

To better stimulate investment in climate resilience across Australia and New Zealand, the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) has developed its ‘ Road to Resilience ’ strategy. International adaptation finance flows to developing countries are ten times below estimated needs, according to the UN’s 2022 Adaptation Gap report.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 27, 2023

For a large cap equity team that holds blue chip companies in developed markets, it’s fairly straightforward to provide the necessary climate data, because service providers tend to cover that space pretty well, but it gets difficult with small cap or emerging markets,” he said.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

Regardless of geopolitical developments, decentralised energy systems based on renewable energy sources increase energy independence and security, while lowering costs for end-consumers and contributing towards the decarbonisation of economies,” says Marco van Daele, Co-CEO and CIO at SUSI Partners, a Swiss-based infrastructure fund manager.

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Richard Matthews

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

According to a report published by Ceres , the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative has grown to 128 investors who collectively manage $43 trillion. Fossil fuels are at high risk of becoming stranded assets and PEs have a significant stake in the energy sector. More Funds Diverted to Sources of Renewable Energy.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2023

trillion in AuM that have committed to transitioning their investment to achieve net zero portfolio GHG emissions by 2050 and drawing on the Net Zero Investment Framework to deliver on that commitment. Stranded assets AP7 is a member of the Paris Aligned Asset Owners Initiative, a global group of 56 asset owners with over US$3.3

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Sustainability Matters

MARCH 20, 2023

Lesley Hughes , Climate Councillor, former IPCC author and Distinguished Professor of Biology at Macquarie University, labelled Australia as one of the most vulnerable developed countries to the impacts of climate change. As a nation, she said Australia has much to lose and everything to gain by acting decisively to get emissions plummeting.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Many have set science-based targets aligned with 1.5ºC, others are starting their journey to net-zero. For business, investments in fossil fuels are now far riskier because the market expects them to become stranded assets in the foreseeable future. The Glasgow Pact has given them the direction of travel.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 16, 2022

They promote the implementation of UN Sustainable Development Goal 14 (Life Below Water), and set out ocean-specific standards, allowing the financial industry to mainstream sustainability of ocean-based sectors. Launched in 2018, they act as a global guiding framework for banks, insurers and investors. What activities should investors avoid?

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Not the least of these developments is the shifting profile of the market, from one dominated by charitable institutions and public sector bodies to one that accommodates harder-headed investors looking for top-class returns alongside positive outcomes. She cites as an example the re-development of King’s Cross in London.

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Chris Hall

JULY 14, 2023

According to research by MSCI, nearly half (44%) of listed companies have now set decarbonisation targets, representing an eight-percentage-point increase than was reported in the October 2022 MSCI Net-Zero Tracker , but only 17% of those targets would align with the 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 25, 2023

From Stockholm to Vancouver, developments this week pointed to some of the challenges awaiting climate negotiators in Dubai. A selection of this week’s major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 22, 2023

Our new report, produced in collaboration with the Ottawa-based Smart Prosperity Institute and funded by the Trottier Family Foundation, finds that pension managers’ support for the green transition is growing but still nowhere near the pace required to meet global net-zero-carbon targets. 79000 0.14

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