Chris Hall

JANUARY 30, 2024

Direct litigation risks include challenging investors’ mismanagement of climate and biodiversity-related risk, breaches of fiduciary duty, greenwashing, or financing environmental and human rights-related harms.

Greenwashing 80

Greenwashing Stranded Assets Net Zero Banking 80

Chris Hall

JANUARY 30, 2024

Direct litigation risks include challenging investors’ mismanagement of climate and biodiversity-related risk, breaches of fiduciary duty, greenwashing, or financing environmental and human rights-related harms.

Greenwashing 59

Greenwashing Stranded Assets Net Zero Banking 59

Chris Hall

AUGUST 8, 2024

In the statement it referred to metallurgical coal as “carbon steel materials”, drawing accusations of greenwashing. Divest or wind down? This leaves it heavily exposed to reputational, regulatory and stranded-asset risk, leading many investors to avoid it.

Stranded Assets 52

Stranded Assets Divestment Greenwashing Paris Agreement 52

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.

Net Zero 52

Net Zero Stranded Assets Paris Agreement Greenwashing 52

Chris Hall

OCTOBER 6, 2022

For ESG-aware investors, this paucity of solid information leads to questions over whether they should they wait for information flows to improve, pinning hope on further action from regulators or legislators, or divest their holdings to avoid uncertainty over the climate risks in their portfolios. Potential evidence of greenwashing.

Divestment 52

Divestment Net Zero Stranded Assets Greenwashing 52

Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2023

For investors and companies with assets within those key biodiversity areas, this raises the issue of stranded assets. Large institutional investors have taken divergent approaches to managing the climate risks in their portfolios, with some pension funds divesting fossil fuel holdings.

Supply Chains 52

Supply Chains Supply Chain Divestment CDP 52