Chris Hall

AUGUST 12, 2022

These two bodies have published an updated edition of their ‘Primer on Climate Change: Directors’ Duties and Disclosure Obligations’, which provides “an overview of contemporary evidence that that climate change presents foreseeable, and in many cases material, financial and systemic risks that affect corporations and their investors”.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

After the Paris Agreement the message was clear: Ambition, Ambition, Ambition. These include a commitment by nations to increase their emissions targets to pursue the 1.5ºC objective of the Paris Agreement and rules for a robust and transparent global carbon market. C alive, just.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 21, 2023

Investors have filed 21 climate-related shareholder resolutions with major US banks and insurers calling for measures including the adoption of science-based targets, a phase-out of lending and underwriting to companies involved in new fossil fuel expansion, aligning climate-lobbying with the goals of the Paris Agreement, and the strengthening of due (..)

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Chris Hall

JULY 14, 2023

Nevertheless, MSCI will be present at the event as the world takes stock of climate action progress and assesses the policy solutions and broader innovations for addressing climate-related issues. “While most people recognise COP as a policy summit, it is crucial to understand that it has evolved into a business summit since COP21,” says Vanston.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

The Clean Shipping Act would direct the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set increasingly stringent carbon intensity standards for shipping fuel by 2040, in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. Some companies will start acting and some won’t; there’s more risk of stranded assets.” What role should investors play?

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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.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 27, 2022

At COP26 in Glasgow last year, governments, businesses, and other stakeholders in the automotive industry and road transport committed to “rapidly accelerating the transition to zero emission vehicles to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement”. Costs are rising for laggards in a number of ways.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The idea to utilise voluntary markets is “a good one”, as it’s “part of the principle of ‘cooperative action’ enshrined in the Paris Agreement,” Guy Turner, CEO of specialist data, analysis and advisory firm Trove Research, tells ESG Investor. . “It The deal committed US$8.5 Discussions around Article 6.4

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Chris Hall

JULY 20, 2022

While Group of Seven governments are announcing grand plans , asset owners in developed markets are increasingly keen to play their part in this transition. . Forecasts suggest electricity demand will be around 1,400-1600 TWh by 2030, representing a 5-6% estimated weighted average CAGR across the present decade. .

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

C and implement the Paris Agreement and will be welcomed by the business community. C temperature goal of the Paris Agreement alive, and to ensure a just transition. . It makes no long-term sense to continue pumping money into an asset that is already destined to eventually have no value — a stranded asset.

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