Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

While the grid operators in Ontario and Alberta are both “investigating pathways to a net-zero power grid,” CEC points to a fatal flaw in their analysis — they rely too often on obsolete data that may go back as far as 2001, or draw from experience in other countries.

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Chris Hall

MAY 7, 2024

Mining giant BHP’s bid to acquire Anglo-American would create the world’s biggest shipper of metallurgical coal and a global mega-polluter, exposing shareholders to stranded asset risk as the world moves away from fossil fuels, a think tank has warned.

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Chris Hall

MAY 19, 2023

Yet, despite this uncertainty, decarbonisation is a megatrend; driven by the need to reach net zero by 2050 if the world is to avoid catastrophic climate change. Meanwhile, the EU recently announced the Net Zero Industry Act to rival this plan, and “make Europe the home of cleantech and industrial innovation on the road to net zero”.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 25, 2023

BASF resists the characterization, pointing to its track record – since 1990, the company has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 50% – and its objective to achieve net-zero by 2050 (five years later than the German national target of 2045).

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

To better stimulate investment in climate resilience across Australia and New Zealand, the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) has developed its ‘ Road to Resilience ’ strategy. Further, only 9% have implemented a response to their physical risk exposure.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 21, 2023

This AGM season, investors have filed numerous shareholder resolutions to accelerate finance sector action to address climate risks and meet net zero commitments. AGMs to be held by Citi, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America on 25 April, and by Goldman Sachs on 26 April, are seen as key indicators of investment sentiment.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2023

As US and Canadian banking majors begin to publish their 2023 proxy statements, there has been a troubling mischaracterization of climate-related shareholder resolutions, misleading investors into thinking these resolutions are something they’re not. Proponents of the resolutions acknowledge the near-term need for fossil fuels.

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Chris Hall

MAY 4, 2022

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a company transitioning to net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 or sooner is in want of a detailed plan. . How do they translate on a net zero journey? UK proposals to mandate climate transition plans are part of wider scrutiny effort. .

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2023

Even so, we have developed a pipeline of over ten large nature-based solutions to be financed during 2023, with an overall potential of 40,000 hectares of agroforestry and productive restoration. It’s part of our fiduciary duty to be at the forefront of efforts to scale up and re-allocate capital. Yet the world is changing.

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Sustainability Matters

MARCH 20, 2023

The IPCC Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report, compiled by almost 300 scientists across 67 countries, draws together all the contributions from IPCC’s sixth assessment cycle, showing how action on climate change must be accelerated throughout the decade. The AR5 Synthesis Report contains over seven years’ worth of new peer-reviewed science.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2023

trillion in AuM that have committed to transitioning their investment to achieve net zero portfolio GHG emissions by 2050 and drawing on the Net Zero Investment Framework to deliver on that commitment. Stranded assets AP7 is a member of the Paris Aligned Asset Owners Initiative, a global group of 56 asset owners with over US$3.3

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

The announcement is meant to deliver on the 2023 subsidy phaseout deadline contained in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s December, 2021 mandate letters to Guilbeault and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland. Carbon Capture Backed by Carbon Offsets? Given the persistent technical problems still facing CCS, that may not be likely.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

According to the International Energy Agency , the world needs to cut 90% of coal use by 2050 and phase out all unabated coal power plants by 2040 to achieve net-zero emissions and avoid the worst impacts of climate change. These plants are expected to operate for decades and risk becoming “stranded assets” if they retire early.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

With global trade highly dependent on shipping, achieving net zero may put wind in the sails of other industries’ climate ambitions. On 7 July, at the 80 th Meeting of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 80), IMO member states endorsed the regulator’s ‘ 2023 IMO Strategy on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships ’.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2024

iv In 2023, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) set a target of achieving net zero emissions by 2050. They have a major role in accelerating towards net-zero emissions shipping. Investing in fuel flexibility is the most financially viable way to avoid the risk of stranded assets, concludes the document.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2023

The importance of water-related risks was underlined last month with the commitments to a more ambitious Water Action Agenda signed last month at the UN’s first dedicated water summit in 50 years, part of a focus throughout 2023 on getting the UN Sustainable Development Goals back on track.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Mobilising public and private capital to fund the net zero transition efforts of emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) has been a central theme of discussions at COP27 in Egypt. . They receive mixed signals from their stakeholders and regulators on the appropriate role carbon credits play in net zero strategies.” .

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The actions being taken by signatories to WorldGBC’s Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment to tackle whole life carbon are critical because they are driving emissions reductions now and in the future. The businesses and organizations signed up to the commitment account for approximately 6.5 ANALYSIS: . ANALYSIS: NEWS: . ANALYSIS: .

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