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Four key lessons from the world’s top responsible investors

Corporate Knights

Engagement and divestment both have a role to play The engagement versus divestment debate has been ongoing in the investor community. Studies have shown that divesting really works, both to cause the stock prices of climate-damaging stocks to fall and to create additional financial value.

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Editor's note: The world needs a climate moonshot

Corporate Knights

If we went a step further than putting a stop to ripping out our forests and mangroves and started to restore them, we could get almost 40% of the way to our Paris Agreement goals by 2030. degrees is the speed at which we invest, not divest.

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Take Five: Europe’s Green Brigade Takes Shape 

Chris Hall

The EC presented its Readiness 2030 white paper, outlining its strategic priorities for rebuilding Europes defence capabilities, and provided more detail on its 800 billion (US$867 billion) ReArm Europe plan. As highlighted at last years Stewardship Summit , investors tread a fine line when engaging with carbon-intensive holdings.

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Carbon Metrics Key to Investors’ Net Zero Path

Chris Hall

Choosing the right method to measure portfolio emissions is crucial to investors’ alignment with the Paris Agreement, and should reflect their strategy. Reasons are manifold but include better risk management, earlier identification of stranded assets, and the realisation that Paris Agreement goals are in jeopardy.

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Mining Linked to Human Rights Abuses

Chris Hall

This is an enormous challenge and an opportunity, and the commission presents a vehicle for thoughtful and practical engagement.” As of November 2023, the commission had amassed support from 82 investors who collectively managed US$11 trillion in assets, including Scottish Widows and the Australian Council for Superannuation Investors.

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UK AOs Probe Misalignment After Failed Fossil Fuel Votes

Chris Hall

Research will span the introduction of the Paris Agreement in 2016 to the conclusion of the 2023 proxy season, with the aim of comparing the voting patterns of asset owners and managers.

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ICYMI, Governments and Regulators are Making the Running

Chris Hall

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.