2022 COP26 Divestment 
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
DESCRIPTION: On the heels of COP26, investors are not only thinking about the climate-related risks of companies within their portfolios, but they are also considering whether to make new investments or maintain existing investments in high-emitting companies or countries going forward. SOURCE: Franklin Templeton. About Brandywine Global.
Chris Hall
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
At COP26, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) – an umbrella body which includes the NZIA and other sub-sector groups – announced that firms with US$130 trillion AUM had committed to reducing their financed emissions to net zero by 2050, to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.
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Chris Hall
JANUARY 26, 2022
2022 will see stronger focus on biodiversity as investors show “teeth” to laggards. Multiple asset managers’ letters to stakeholders announcing their 2022 intentions, including Aviva Investors and BMO Global Asset Management, said that they were now looking beyond climate. Playing hardball on S and G.
3BL Media
MAY 17, 2022
DESCRIPTION: Last year marked a global shift in corporations adopting low-carbon and net-zero pledges as experts at the United Nations Climate Change Conference , COP26, declared that the climate crisis is at a critical inflection point. SOURCE: Antea Group. C commitment and 7,126 companies have joined the Race to Zero.
Chris Hall
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
C increase over pre-industrial temperatures was hanging by a thread at the end of COP26, subsequent economic and geopolitical events appear to have dealt a blow to those ambitions – at least in the short term. The sense of optimism at COP26 turned out to be short lived. “We Beast from the east.
Chris Hall
MAY 27, 2022
Alongside the progress of a bill in California calling for fossil fuel divestment by public-sector pensions, and the SEC’s plans for climate-risk disclosures , this new assault on greenwashing moves US policy closer to its European counterparts, where fund disclosure rules are already reshaping the market.
Chris Hall
MAY 3, 2022
NGO Reclaim Finance’s 2022 climate Scorecard says asset managers’ engagement policies “fail to send clear signals to fossil fuel companies”. Reclaim Finance notes a “growing trend” within the investor community to condemn exclusion and divestment from heavy emitters as both “unrealistic and ineffective” tools to decarbonise the economy.
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