Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This type of planned transition in the building sector is necessary to protect consumers from higher costs and stranded assets. Likewise, Vancouver avoided a reversal of its nation-leading rules that effectively banned gas for heating most buildings.

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Impact Alpha

JULY 1, 2020

20: Investors share experiences in getting their assets off the sidelines (video). The post The Brief: Assets off the sidelines (video), Erie’s opportunity zones, Netflix banks Black, carbon tax on meat, Big Energy’s stranded assets appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Featured: Agents of Impact Call No.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 12, 2020

Living Cities’ Demetric Duckett, Cambridge Associates’ Sarah Hoyt, Sinclair Capital’s Jon Lukomnik and The Investment Integration Project’s Bill Burckart join ImpactAlpha’s David Bank, Monique Aiken and other Agents of Impact, Thursday, The post The Brief: Hourly employee ownership, seeding vertical farms, eco-packaging, e-motorcycles in Brazil, tropical (..)

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 6, 2022

Even if the new well is a success, future government policies designed to slow climate change could make the project unprofitable or force it to shut down years … Continue reading Who really owns the oil industry’s future stranded assets? If you own investment funds or expect a pension, it might be you.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Climate change introduces transition risks related to the decarbonization of the real economy that may raise investment losses due to stranded assets, particularly in relation to economic activities unable to adapt their business models accordingly.”

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 16, 2020

The post The Brief: Building community wealth, alt-home-financing, curbing construction carbon, employee financial health, BP’s stranded assets appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha’s next Agents of Impact call will explore how to ramp up.

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MSCI

AUGUST 22, 2019

Could plastic become the next stranded asset? Oil and gas companies are accelerating investment in plastics, in response to the shift away from fossil fuels. But is this pivot sustainable?

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 24, 2020

Investors are already concerned about stranded asset risk in large swathes of the economy, such as energy, utilities, transportation and infrastructure. To reduce this risk, regulators in the U.S.

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Environmental Finance

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Governments should compensate oil and gas investors for stranded assets to avoid costly tribunals, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) has said.

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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. It’ll be a mess.”

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

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GreenBiz

MAY 20, 2021

If the world heeds that advice, we’ll leave a lot of stranded assets lying around. Of course, a chorus of activist investors have been pressing investors, banks and companies to examine their risks on stranded oil and gas assets for more than a decade, knowing this day would arrive.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

To climate-focused investors, the continued investment in fossil fuels and the scaling back of climate targets is shortsighted given what they see as the need for BP to decouple itself from oil and gas production or face future risks of litigation , regulation and stranded assets.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Is Bitcoin the next stranded asset? Recent developments in technology suggest the industry has started putting plans into action, with the appearance of sustainable tools and infrastructures. RELATED: Ethereum goes green overnight. But there's a catch.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Every dollar not spent in new ways to cut GHG and to stop the voracious linear economy is investing in future stranded assets. For investors, the acceleration question is: What are the companies in your portfolio doing in 2021 to cut pollution by 10 to 15 percent this year?

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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.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 9, 2022

A study published in the journal Nature found that Canada alone will face $100 billion in stranded assets by 2036, representing 35% of the book value of oil and gas properties for all oil and gas issuers listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The more invested they remain in carbon-intensive assets, the greater the risk they face of holding stranded assets that lose value due to the transition. Their disclosures will signal to the rest of the world, including their own shareholders, whether they are reducing their financed emissions.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 19, 2024

Gas demand is set to peak in 2030 in all scenarios, the IEA has said, raising the thorny question of when new investments in oil and gas will become stranded assets. That’s why Julia Levin, associate director of Environmental Defence, is wary of the federal government’s “sector-agnostic” loan guarantee.

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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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Environmental News Bits

JULY 23, 2021

Physical risks, stranded assets and greater firm default risk expose… Read more → Both climate change and the transition to a carbon neutral economy pose substantial challenges for the economy and the financial system, with the potential to affect growth and inflation in the short term, but also over much longer horizons.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Case Study: Stranded Assets and the Economics of a Chinese Power Plant. These differences can be more sharply examined by analyzing the economics of a Chinese power plant and stranded-assets risk. Stranded assets are a common theme in investment analysis of the global energy transition.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 22, 2023

If Canada’s pension fund managers don’t take sustainability seriously, he adds, “they could get caught with stranded assets, which will cost their pensioners a lot.” They have a big role to play in facilitating the transition to a low-carbon economy.”

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 15, 2022

Building a new LNG export facility in Canada sounds like an enormous stranded asset in the making.”.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 26, 2021

The focus of our argument beyond reduction of GHG emissions was that the installation of natural-gas-fed electric power generators would be a “stranded asset.” Stranded assets are unable to earn their original economic return due to changes in the landscape in which the assets operate.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 11, 2022

While some investments are neutral (deemed neither “clean” nor “dirty”), in many cases these companies are still investing most of their capital into assets that will either lock in further GHG emissions or become stranded assets as the energy transition takes shape. dollars) through 2030.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 9, 2022

Research commissioned by the Changing Markets Foundation surveying 201 respondents from the investment community shows that 82% agreed that climate change presents a material risk to meat and dairy industry-related investments and 84% believe that a lack of mitigation of climate change could lead to stranded assets in this industry.

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GreenBiz

MAY 8, 2020

The result: Commercial office spaces could become stranded assets, subject to write-downs and operating losses. . In the short term, landlords are worried struggling companies will renegotiate leases or shift to a work-from-home model, requiring less office space writ large.

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Environmental Finance

JANUARY 23, 2025

The EU should create a framework to account for the depreciation of highly polluting assets "at risk of becoming stranded" to help financial institutions assess the credibility of transition plans, it has been told by advisers.

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ESG Today

APRIL 20, 2023

Earlier this week, for example, Canada proposed new rules introducing recycled content requirements for plastic packaging and labelling and reporting requirements for plastic products.

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Energy Central

JUNE 13, 2023

Originally posted here. Broken Window Economics: an event that seems to be beneficial for those immediately involved can have negative economic consequences for many others. The US and most countries have energy economies based on fossil fuels, plus contributions from nuclear, hydro, geothermal and biomass.

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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 6, 2019

6 – The risk that fossil fuel investments will become ‘stranded assets’ went from fringe thesis to mainstream preoccupation in what must be near-record time. ImpactAlpha, Dec. It’s not a theory: this week, the Spanish oil producer Repsol took a $5.3

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3BL Media

AUGUST 30, 2022

CDP and Planet Tracker’s High and Dry: How Water Issues Are Stranding Assets , May 2022 report recognizes that “Water risk is already stranding assets across major sectors of the global economy.”.

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ESG Today

MAY 4, 2023

Last month, for example, Canada proposed new rules introducing recycled content requirements for plastic packaging and labelling and reporting requirements for plastic products.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

These represent a stranded asset risk of hundreds of billions of dollars and potentially locking in tens of billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.” So far, about one-quarter of the new plants are under construction, GEM reported.

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ESG Today

MAY 7, 2024

Additionally, both CEOs (75%) and investors (70%) broadly agree that technology and AI hold the answers to many of the key sustainability challenges facing their companies.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 5, 2023

Many corporations “really understate the risks of the sector that they’re operating in, and the risks of stranded assets,” says Carol Adams, an accounting professor at Durham University in the U.K. This is especially true with the Ukraine war driving up oil and gas prices and demand in Europe.

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