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ESG Explainer: The Blue Economy

Chris Hall

With the global economy heavily reliant on ocean health, a sustainable future is paramount. To date, the ocean and its ecosystems have provided significant benefits to the global community, including climate regulation, coastal protection, food, employment, recreation and cultural well-being.

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Is the IMO Turning the Tide on Transition?

Chris Hall

It is in many ways a starting point for the work that needs to intensify even more over the years and decades ahead of us.” The IMO’s previous 2018 target was to halve the shipping sector’s annual CO2 emissions by 2050. 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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COP26 Live Blog: All in for 1.5ºC

We Mean Business Coalition

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. With around 70% of the global economy now committed to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, the urgency of exiting coal and completely phasing out fossil fuel subsidies is clear.

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