Chris Hall

AUGUST 12, 2022

The report cites a global total of 2002 cases, brought by May 2021, according to the Climate Change Laws of the World (CCLW) database, maintained by the London School of Economics’ Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, supplemented by the United States Climate Litigation Database. Vital role of non-execs.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 8, 2024

Anglo American sold its thermal coal portfolio in 2021, while BHP announced in 2022 that it would close its last such mine in 2030. This leaves it heavily exposed to reputational, regulatory and stranded-asset risk, leading many investors to avoid it.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 21, 2023

In 2021, insured natural catastrophe losses reached around US$110 billion, according to Swiss Re, making it the third-costliest catastrophe year since 2011.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

VCMs have logged rapid growth in recent years, reaching nearly US$2 billion by the end of 2021, and expected to reach US$50 billion by 2030. “There is only one way we’re going to keep 1.5°C It makes sense for countries where it is costly to reduce emissions to pay for the emissions reductions where it is cheaper to do so.” .

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

The Clean Shipping Act would direct the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set increasingly stringent carbon intensity standards for shipping fuel by 2040, in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. 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

MAY 11, 2022

For example, a decision not to invest in a high-carbon asset because of financial concerns about stranded assets is likely to be seen as consistent with fiduciary duties, providing that the decision is based on credible assumptions and robust processes. How are attitudes changing? Are returns no longer first among equals?

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Chris Hall

JULY 20, 2022

While Group of Seven governments are announcing grand plans , asset owners in developed markets are increasingly keen to play their part in this transition. . In April, a Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) ?

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 25, 2023

It has publicly endorsed the Paris Agreement on climate change as well as the EU’s target of being net-zero by 2050. In 2021, BASF purchased a major share of the world’s largest wind farm – Hollandse Kust Zuid – which is currently under construction in the North Sea, some 50 kilometres off the Dutch coast.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 27, 2022

In 2021, global electric vehicle (EV) sales more than doubled to 6.6 Moreover, all of the net growth of global car sales in 2021 came from the sale of EVs. China has emerged as a driver of the global EV market, almost tripling sales in 2021 to reach 3.4 This represented a tripling of EV’s market share from two years earlier.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

C and implement the Paris Agreement and will be welcomed by the business community. C temperature goal of the Paris Agreement alive, and to ensure a just transition. . See the open letter to President Biden that supports this direction of travel, signed by more than 400 companies in April 2021. .

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Chris Hall

MAY 4, 2022

Only 1% of over 13,000 corporates across 13 industries and 117 countries disclosed against 24 key climate transition plan indicators, according to a 2021 report by sustainability disclosure platform CDP. In 2021, the TCFD consulted on its metrics, targets and transition plans, with a view to updating its original 2017 framework and guidance.

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Richard Matthews

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

As stated in the most recent IPCC report we know with unequivocal clarity that fossil fuels are the leading cause of climate change and that we must quickly move away from them if we are to keep temperatures from exceeding the upper threshold limit contained in the Paris Agreement (2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial norms).

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2025

At the beginning of this year, asset owners could only sit back and watch as large US banks exited the NZBA , ahead of the inauguration of President Donald Trump and more political action against climate action. While their 2021 coal phase-out plan was a step forward, we found it fell short of Paris-alignment.

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