Chris Hall
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Stranded assets Speaking later with ESG Investor , Lord Deben stressed that stranded assets – when investment assets become liabilities – will present a significant challenge for investors in the transition to a low-carbon economy. “As It’ll be a mess.”
Corporate Knights
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
There is also the risk that fossil fuel infrastructure is retired before the end of its economic lifetime and becomes a stranded asset—a liability taxpayers would likely pay for.” “Building new natural gas-fired power plants means locking in emissions—and costs—for many years to come.
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Energy Central
JUNE 13, 2023
Broken Window Economics: an event that seems to be beneficial for those immediately involved can have negative economic consequences for many others. Originally posted here. The US and most countries have energy economies based on fossil fuels, plus contributions from nuclear, hydro, geothermal and biomass.
Chris Hall
JANUARY 17, 2025
Speaking at ESG Investors Nature Data for Institutional Investors event in December, she stressed that the plastic in play today cannot be the plastic in 10 to 30 years time, because the chemical additives involved render many products harmful to human health and the environment.
3BL Media
MAY 17, 2022
Extreme weather events increasingly point to a future that will be more dangerous than the climate that has so far underpinned human progress. For decades, scientists have studied the risks of increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on the earth’s climate. The signals of early-stage climate change are becoming unmistakably visible.
3BL Media
MARCH 25, 2022
The evolving climate drives physical risks—damaged or stranded assets and business-interruption costs from severe weather events. However, approximating transition and location risks has to be done with great care, particularly as we consider tipping points and cascading events.
Corporate Knights
MARCH 20, 2023
The science shows roughly half the world’s population likely to be exposed to the impacts of climate change, and once-in-a-century climate disasters on track to become annual events. Already, “widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere , and biosphere have occurred,” the report says.
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