Impact Investing and Stranded Assets

The Brief: Hourly employee ownership, seeding vertical farms, eco-packaging, e-motorcycles in Brazil, tropical forests funds, stranded-asset write-downs

Impact Alpha

AUGUST 12, 2020

Greetings, Agents of Impact! The Call: Systemic impact investing. Tomorrow’s subscriber-only Call brings together the too-often separate conversations around systemic racism and systemic risk.

Stranded Assets

Stranded Assets Impact Investing Banking

California’s climate-risk pioneer Dave Jones on our march ‘toward an uninsurable future’ (Q&A)

Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Dave Jones was California’s state insurance commissioner eight years ago when the then-novel idea of fossil fuel “stranded assets” caught his attention. The post California’s climate-risk pioneer Dave Jones on our march ‘toward an uninsurable future’ (Q&A) appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

Stranded Assets

Stranded Assets Impact Investing

Private Equity Firms Are Paving the Way to a More Sustainable Future

Richard Matthews

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In recent years, impact investing has become mainstream and private equity (PE) firms are playing a key role. Despite being dismissed by some as “woke capitalism”, impact investing is a trend that is here to stay. PE firms have helped to grow the popularity of impact investing.

Impact Investing

Impact Investing Value Creation Net Zero Stranded Assets

Growing Market for Properties with a Purpose

Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Impact investment in real estate is not simply growing rapidly but is changing its shape all the time. According to a 2022 survey sponsored by Big Society Capital, more than half the UK’s pension funds hold impact investments of some sort. Intersection of investment and politics.

Impact Investing

Impact Investing Stranded Assets Net Zero Development

European Companies Under Fire Following Limited Climate Risk Reporting

Chris Hall

APRIL 5, 2022

Important matters, such as physical impacts or the potential for further regulatory change and what this could mean in terms of stranded assets or any other material outcomes, are routinely failing to be disclosed.

Climate Change

Climate Change Stranded Assets Net Zero Impact Investing

Breaking Down Responsible Investment

Sense and Sustainability

JANUARY 12, 2022

Another distinction is that ESG investment considers ESG factors to have financial implications, as opposed to only ethical ones. In other words, a positive impact is valued above financial returns. The second issue to sort out is measurement.

Climate Change

Climate Change Impact Investing Stranded Assets Ethical Investment

JUST Capital’s New Head of Investor Strategies Says It’s ‘Increasingly Irresponsible’ to Ignore ESG

Just Capital

JUNE 2, 2022

Cambria will be leading JUST’s investor stakeholder and financial markets strategy, cultivating industry partnerships and initiatives with key market actors in the asset owner, asset manager, and sustainable and impact investing communities. It’s data that should go into analysis.

Stranded Assets

Stranded Assets Value Creation Impact Investing Sustainable Investment

Investors to Hold US Banks and Insurers to Account on Climate

Chris Hall

APRIL 21, 2023

Specifically, the proposal focuses on the impacts and risks to indigenous peoples and the obligation that companies should consult with indigenous communities when a project might impact their rights and lands, known as free prior informed consent.

Banking

Banking Net Zero Stranded Assets Climate Change

Take Five: Pressure Points

Chris Hall

AUGUST 25, 2023

Carbon and credit – Speaking of the UK media, The Guardian continued its long-standing campaign against the carbon credits industry this week with more evidence of offsetting projects overstating their conservation impact, noting also the risk to global corporates of substantial losses from stranded assets, as reported by Bloomberg.

Stranded Assets

Stranded Assets Net Zero Development Impact Investing

ESG Narratives Needed as well as Numbers

Chris Hall

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Among the sustainable investment themes and concerns most likely to arise as client priorities in the near future were the monitoring of public policy by asset managers and their ability to offer impact-aligned or generating products. A long way to go”.

Sustainable Investment

Sustainable Investment Stranded Assets Negative Screening Divestment

ESG Explainer: Line of Duty

Chris Hall

MAY 11, 2022

For example, a decision not to invest in a high-carbon asset because of financial concerns about stranded assets is likely to be seen as consistent with fiduciary duties, providing that the decision is based on credible assumptions and robust processes.

UNEP

UNEP Net Zero Sustainable Investment Stranded Assets

ESG Explainer: On the Road to Transition

Chris Hall

APRIL 27, 2022

Concerned about their pace of transition to 100% EV production, Inyova Impact Investing has this year proposed a board member with EV expertise to BMW.”. If responses are insufficient, Wiggs says, it is worth going public, as a group of investors did over Volkswagen’s lobbying activities. What are the risks on the demand side?

Net Zero

Net Zero Manufacturing Supply Chains Supply Chain

ESG Impact Zone

The Brief: Hourly employee ownership, seeding vertical farms, eco-packaging, e-motorcycles in Brazil, tropical forests funds, stranded-asset write-downs

California’s climate-risk pioneer Dave Jones on our march ‘toward an uninsurable future’ (Q&A)

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Private Equity Firms Are Paving the Way to a More Sustainable Future

Growing Market for Properties with a Purpose

European Companies Under Fire Following Limited Climate Risk Reporting

Breaking Down Responsible Investment

JUST Capital’s New Head of Investor Strategies Says It’s ‘Increasingly Irresponsible’ to Ignore ESG

Investors to Hold US Banks and Insurers to Account on Climate

Take Five: Pressure Points

ESG Narratives Needed as well as Numbers

ESG Explainer: Line of Duty

ESG Explainer: On the Road to Transition

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