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AB: China's State-Owned Enterprises Hold Keys to Carbon Neutral

3BL Media

President Xi Jinping announced in 2020 plans to target peak CO 2 emissions by 2030 and to transition toward carbon neutrality by 2060. Case Study: Stranded Assets and the Economics of a Chinese Power Plant. Stranded assets are a common theme in investment analysis of the global energy transition.

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China Stress Tests Find Default Risks in High-emitting Sectors

Chris Hall

Stranded assets, defaults in thermal power, steel and cement sectors may increase if companies do not shift to low-carbon alternatives. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has revealed the results of its first phase of climate risk stress tests of major banks in the country.

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Report highlights UK and US financial institutions’ contribution to Amazon deforestation

Envirotec Magazine

The report, “Investing in Amazon Crude”, also provides four case studies focusing on the dissent, protest, and legal resistance put up by indigenous communities in the region, that have led to numerous suspensions of already existing and planned projects, including three in the Peruvian Amazon alone in January 2020.

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At long last, Canada restricts oil and gas subsidies (except for all the loopholes)

Corporate Knights

With the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and environmental groups all in agreement, he added, “getting rid of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies is now a common sense bottom line.” In 2020, a blistering analysis showed Canada leading the G20 countries in per capita public financing to oil and gas.

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New Singapore Guidance for FIs on Environmental Risks

Chris Hall

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has published new information papers on environmental risk management for banks , insurers and asset managers. Apart from climate-related risks, banks and insurers have yet to make meaningful progress to address other environmental risk factors, such as biodiversity loss.

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Beware the Green Swan

Chris Hall

in 2020 amid Covid-19 lockdowns that restricted travel and economic activity, which many hoped would serve as the catalyst for further reductions year-on-year. Similarly, a 2020 report by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) anticipated that a 4°C temperature hike would result in a reduction of asset values ranging between 3-10%.

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Billions of dollars being used to fund coal power in Africa and Asia

Envirotec Magazine

Commercial financial institutions worldwide continue to support coal power plant development indirectly, despite having implemented policies to exclude direct financing of new coal-fired generation assets.