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Decarbonising Investment Portfolios on the Journey to Net Zero

3BL Media

For financial institutions such as banks, insurance companies and investment managers, scope 3 emissions from supply chains and lending/investment portfolios are often more complex than for other industries. They can also divest from high-emitting industries such as thermal coal production. trillion USD in fossil fuels.

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How Pension Schemes can Combat Deforestation

Chris Hall

Within the interactive guide, a particularly helpful tool is Global Canopy’s Forest 500 , which evaluates and ranks the most influential companies and financial institutions in forest risk commodity supply chains. Divestment, while a contentious strategy, should be considered a last resort.

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The Energy Trilemma: Affordability, Security and Climate

Chris Hall

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the corresponding energy crisis, inflation spike and political instability it inflicted on the global economy brought into question whether this act of military aggression should be seen as a help or hindrance to the energy transition. “In Sustainability also needs to extend to the supply chain. “As

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Transition in Practice

Chris Hall

In its latest synthesis report , the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a “final warning”, calling for swift and decisive action to keep global average temperature rise to <1.5°C Averting this cataclysm requires the reduction of global anthropogenic greenhouse (GHG) emissions to net zero by 2050.

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Despite the Headlines, 2021 Was A Year Full of Environmental Victories

Richard Matthews

The fossil fuels divestment movement continues to grow and as indicated in a recent report by DivestInvest, 1,500 investment institutions, responsible for $39.2 trillion in assets, have committed to divest. Student divestment movements have succeeded in removing fossil fuels from a number of universities in 2021.