3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Throughout the 21st century, China’s rapid economic development has fueled a steady rise in energy consumption, in contrast to the US and European Union, where it has plateaued and even started to fall ( Display ). For China, decarbonization considerations are tightly tethered to economic development and continued growth.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 6, 2023

All told, 24 would-be LNG developers have received natural-gas export permits from the federal energy regulator, though many of those will not proceed. Ottawa is currently developing a transition taxonomy – essentially a guideline as to which types of investments are appropriate in the transition to a net-zero economy.

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GreenBiz

MAY 8, 2020

The result: Commercial office spaces could become stranded assets, subject to write-downs and operating losses. . In the short term, landlords are worried struggling companies will renegotiate leases or shift to a work-from-home model, requiring less office space writ large.

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ESG Today

APRIL 20, 2023

Cate Lamb, Global Director for Water Security at CDP, said: “To be able to act effectively, companies must develop a robust understanding of how they contribute to the plastic pollution crisis and formulate equitable and just transition plans to address this.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 26, 2021

As I looked into the Constellation Prize, I saw that the prize sheds light on how engineering can be done to promote new modes of engagement, research, development, and design that elevate the values of environmental protection, social justice, human rights, and peace. Jay & Kristy Egg and Keith Schue.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 30, 2022

CDP and Planet Tracker’s High and Dry: How Water Issues Are Stranding Assets , May 2022 report recognizes that “Water risk is already stranding assets across major sectors of the global economy.”. Ecolab has developed publicly available tools such as Smart Water Navigator and Water Risk Monetizer.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

There is now 783 gigawatts (GW) of oil- and gas-power capacity under development—projects that are either announced or in the pre-construction and construction phases,” wrote Jenny Martos, project manager of GEM’s global gas tracker, and Julie Joly, the organization’s oil and gas programme director, in a post for Carbon Brief.

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ESG Today

MAY 4, 2023

A group of more than 180 investors, representing $10 trillion in assets under management, have signed a joint statement calling on companies to cut their use of plastics, and address the financial risks of plastic use.

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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.

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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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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The developing regulatory landscape must also be understood and monitored closely. The ESG regulatory landscape is continuously evolving, and this should be a key consideration for asset managers.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

Officials cast it as one major part of a process that also includes a phaseout of public financing for domestic fossil fuel projects through Crown agencies like Export Development Canada. Those guidelines are due to be released in 2024. In a release Monday, Oil Change International placed the total at $50 billion since 2019.

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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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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

According to its website, The Constellation Prize “sheds a light on how engineering can be done to promote new modes of engagement, research, development, and design that elevate the values of environmental protection, social justice, human rights, and peace.”.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Panellists warned PRI in Person delegates against the risk of stranded assets, insisting on the need to prepare society for challenges to come. There are the planetary limits, and the social new contract that we must sign – we have to see our development within these two limits. Progress is heterogeneous. Canada is lagging.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

These countries need more financing and alternative energy solutions, while at the same time, many have young coal fleets and new plants still under development. These plants are expected to operate for decades and risk becoming “stranded assets” if they retire early.

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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

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Workers, suppliers, communities and consumers should not be forgotten by institutional investors when developing net zero transition strategies. . The post Stranded Workers a Risk in Unjust Transition appeared first on ESG Investor. Orderly path to net zero requires social and natural dimensions to be built into transition plans.

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3BL Media

MARCH 25, 2022

Data and models exist, but they’re incomplete and still developing. The evolving climate drives physical risks—damaged or stranded assets and business-interruption costs from severe weather events. But a model like that would have many assumptions at each stage, which could delay development.

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3BL Media

MAY 17, 2022

Financial institutions that start with managing their own footprint and supply chains will deliver limited climate impact compared to aligning their balance sheets to lower emissions investments that embed resilience and minimize their exposure to stranded assets.

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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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Richard Matthews

APRIL 20, 2022

Sustainable economies like these can help us to realize the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This blend of free markets and state control is the dominant economic system in the vast majority of developed nations in the world today. Increasingly this also includes offshore renewable energy development.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 27, 2025

Alongside stranded asset dangers for investors, the early phase-out of emerging markets coal fleets leaves countries open to legal, financial risks. Currently, despite a recent update issued by developed nations involved in JETPs in Indonesia and elsewhere, progress on existing frameworks has been slow and fraught with complications.

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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. Given the enormous resources of GFANZ, a radical new approach to mobilising private capital investment in emerging markets and developing economies can be developed,” he said.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 13, 2020

The report’s authors appear to demonstrate how this resistance will escalate as new leases are sold and crude oil projects are developed, threatening the long-term viability of projects and investments.

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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

APRIL 14, 2023

This year, investors filed resolutions at seven major US and Canadian banks — Bank of America, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, and Royal Bank of Canada — urging these banks to adopt policies to phase-out clients engaging in new fossil fuel exploration and development.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 2, 2024

At the last meeting in April , measures were developed to eliminate problematic plastic products, but negotiators have yet to agree on rules to slash production and consumption. Risk of stranded assets Many major asset owners and managers have vociferously supported the treaty.

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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. A stewardship programme that offers comprehensive engagement on climate and sustainability issues to responsible investment clients is commendable, provided it is done effectively.

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Chris Hall

MAY 6, 2022

Sixty-nine percent of listed equities reporting via CDP’s platform stated they are exposed to water risks that could “generate a substantive change in their business”, said CDP’s report on how water issues are stranding assets. Water risk factors and stranded assets.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The development team is working to quantify this energy and carbon-reduction benefit — along with potential CAPEX and OPEX savings — so stay tuned for those metrics. Sustainable software development. An exciting, emerging area of sustainable computing is sustainable software development (SSD). Developer Sustainability Dashboard.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Investment fonds are optimizing their property asset portfolios from an energy efficiency perspective. While highly energy-inefficient buildings run the risk of becoming stranded assets, investments into energy management and optimization can increase property value significantly.

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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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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Change is already underway within the fossil fuel industry, as developments in the Netherlands, United States and Australia indicate. Set a target The Science Based Targets initiative ( SBTi ) has developed guidelines on setting science-based targets (SBTs) for the financial sector that require the inclusion of financed emissions.

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 30, 2019

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is supporting countries in the region to achieve these ambitious goals, along with some foreign governments like Germany. The dialogue explored the vision and challenges for countries to achieve decarbonization by 2050.

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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

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

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