Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 13, 2020

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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3BL Media

AUGUST 8, 2022

In September 2020, five of the major global reporting organizations came together to form the Comprehensive Reporting group, signaling their intent to work towards a common framework with a single set of global reporting standards.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

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. As these perilous climate projections unfold, one might expect an inevitable upheaval in the global economy. This means that every 25 years, global warming will increase by 0.5°C

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ESG Today

MARCH 14, 2024

In 2020, Shell announced a commitment to achieve net zero in its operations by 2050, and in 2021, the company launched its “Powering Progress” strategy , detailing how it will achieve its target to be a net-zero energy business by 2050 across Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions, with initiatives including investing in renewable and clean energy solutions.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 5, 2022

Members of the IIGCC demand improved transparency on economic impacts of climate change and associated policy action. . trillion in assets are challenging corporate audit committee chairs on their continued omission of climate risks in financial reporting ahead of the 2022 annual general meeting (AGM) season. .

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 12, 2022

Noting that the number of court cases being brought against companies on climate-related grounds has recently topped 2,000, the report says some plaintiffs are seeking to recover the costs of climate change itself, or the expense caused by having to adapt to it. Resort to the courts. Vital role of non-execs.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

These countries need affordable, reliable and clean energy to support their socio-economic development and to mitigate climate change. “We continue to see significant investment in coal-fired power generation in countries with high rates of energy poverty.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

In 2020, Eurostat reported that renewable energy made up 22.1% of the EU’s gross electricity consumption in 2020, said Eurostat, of which two thirds was produced by wind and hydropower. Increasing gas infrastructure must be avoided to avert dangerous climate impacts and stranded assets.”.

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Richard Matthews

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

To illustrate, BlackRock, the world’s leading investment firm, with more than $7 trillion worth of assets under management, has announced that climate will play a central role in investment considerations. Fossil fuels are at high risk of becoming stranded assets and PEs have a significant stake in the energy sector.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Reasons are manifold but include better risk management, earlier identification of stranded assets, and the realisation that Paris Agreement goals are in jeopardy. It now aims to further halve its emissions by 2030 compared to 2020 levels – with the long-term goal of achieving net zero by 2040. “We

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The parallels between the disclosure and risk management frameworks of the TNFD and its forerunner, the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), are welcomed as easing the disclosure burden, but few under-estimate the challenge ahead.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

Starting at a 2% reduction in 2025 compared to 2020 intensity levels, it will increase to 6% by 2030, and eventually reach 80% in 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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Chris Hall

JULY 14, 2023

of global GDP, in 2020, and are expected to increase to 7.4% Global temperatures are set to hit record-breaking levels this summer, with regions of persistent high pressure creating heat domes across several southern US states in June, posing health risks to millions of Americans. trillion, or 6.8%

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Chris Hall

APRIL 20, 2022

The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working group III report on climate change mitigation identified carbon capture and storage (CCS) as an integral element in reducing GHG emissions across the energy sector. What is carbon capture and storage?

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Annual clean energy investment in EMDEs needs to increase by more than seven times, from US$150 billion in 2020 to over US$1 trillion a year by 2030, according to an International Energy Agency (IEA) report. . trillion by 2030, to boost resilience and deal with the loss and damage caused by climate change impacts. .

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2023

A stark choice between climate stability and global devastation is the constant drumbeat from a landmark report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Already, “widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere , and biosphere have occurred,” the report says.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 25, 2023

The shrivelled Rhine of 2018 became a harbinger of the devastating impact that climate change will have on the backbone of the German economy. You’d expect a company so directly affected by climate change to be jumping on the decarbonization bandwagon. On the face of it, it is.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 27, 2022

More electric cars were sold in 2021 in China alone than were sold in the entire world in 2020. Electric vehicles powered by low-emission electricity offer the largest decarbonisation potential for land-based transport, says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its most recent report on climate change mitigation.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2025

The European Banking Authoritys implementation of Basel III includes Pillar 3 reporting requirements that stipulate annual template-based disclosures on physical and transition risks, plus two metrics that measure changes in the exposure of bank assets to climate change.

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