Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 30, 2019

Prior to the UNFCCC 2015 Conference of Parties (COP) in Paris, SDSN and IDRRI, a leading European think-tank, undertook the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP) engaging national teams in 16 countries covering 70 percent of global carbon emissions.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 4, 2022

Almost overnight, Vladimir Putin pulled off something investors have been struggling to achieve since 2015: decarbonising the business models of oil and gas majors. But will the energy giants diversify from or double down on fossil fuels in response to inevitable write-offs on stranded assets?

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 30, 2024

“Investors often underestimate indirect legal risks despite the financial toll of lawsuits against investee companies,” Clarke said. The claim, for £36 billion (US$44 billion), could have a major impact on the firm’s share price, a knock-on effect on investors, and potentially set a precedent for future litigation.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 12, 2022

The number of cases is widely recognised as having doubled since 2015. According to the UNEP Global Climate Litigation Report , more than 1,500 cases had been filed in 38 countries by July 2020.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

“Natural gas will remain an important fuel source to meet total energy demand for the time being, decreasing by only 13% in 2030 (from 2015 levels), until hydrogen, e-gas and biogas are ramped up,” the Allianz report noted. “As Increasing gas infrastructure must be avoided to avert dangerous climate impacts and stranded assets.”.

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Richard Matthews

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Fossil fuels are at high risk of becoming stranded assets and PEs have a significant stake in the energy sector. The SDGs are a global mandate agreed upon by 193 countries in 2015. More Funds Diverted to Sources of Renewable Energy. Sustainable Development Goals offer a standardization framework.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Investing in the development of onshore wind has also been a challenge, thanks to planning laws introduced in 2015 which allow one objection from a local resident to halt an entire onshore wind project.

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Chris Hall

MAY 11, 2022

In 2015, UNEP FI and PRI followed-up the report with ‘Fiduciary Duty in the 21 st Century’ , which analysed investment practice and fiduciary duty in eight countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Japan, South Africa, the UK and the US. This suggested that incorporation of ESG factors was a prerequisite of fiduciary duty.

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Chris Hall

JULY 14, 2023

The 2015 Paris Agreement (COP21) also played a key role in highlighting the significance of climate issues, he says; it was evident that many private players, including corporates and investors were striving to enhance their climate commitments leading up to the event.

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Richard Matthews

APRIL 20, 2022

The white economy has also been used to describe the digital economy, this definition is attributed to Professor Douglas McWilliams, a British economist who wrote a 2015 book by the same name. It does this by reforming markets to address real needs while factoring costs and stakeholder concerns.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2023

Delaying those actions “would lock in high-emissions infrastructure, raise risks of stranded assets and cost escalation, reduce feasibility, and increase losses and damages.” But some meeting participants warned that those delays are baked into the process by some of the key assumptions in the IPCC’s modelling.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The report tracks developments across sectors covering 90% of global emissions in 2015-2021. 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. This was the clear message put forward by over 775 companies , representing US$2.7

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Richard Matthews

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The courts, investors , banks and insurers are all making this point and this compelling argument is buoyed by increasing examples of stranded assets. A total of 208 educational institutions have divested their assets from fossil fuels. It is fitting that educational institutions are divesting in droves.

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Edouard Stenger

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Additionally, divestment campaigns and the fear of stranded assets have become each new year more pressing. coal companies have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy since 2015 and analysts expect more as the economy dives. In the US, electricity generation from coal went from 50% in 2007 to 15% now.

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