Chris Hall

JANUARY 30, 2024

While indirect risks remain predominant, litigation could target asset owners following increased focus on financial institutions. Investors will be increasingly subject to direct climate litigation risk in 2024 rather than indirect risks through investments as the types of cases brought evolve.

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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. For the first time, the IMO has also agreed on an overarching objective to achieve net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by or around 2050.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 30, 2024

While indirect risks currently remain predominate, litigation could target asset owners following increased focus on financial institutions. Investors will be increasingly subject to direct climate litigation risk in 2024 rather than indirect risks through investments as the types of cases brought evolve.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 4, 2022

But will the energy giants diversify from or double down on fossil fuels in response to inevitable write-offs on stranded assets? Meeting in Nairobi, the United Nations Environmental Assembly agreed to establish a legally binding framework by 2024 to protect the world’s oceans from plastics and other solid human waste.

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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. Roger Holm, President of Wärtsilä Marine & Executive Vice President at Wärtsilä Corporation says: “Achieving net zero in shipping by 2050 will require all the tools in the toolbox, including sustainable fuels.

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Chris Hall

MAY 22, 2024

Other investors must follow suit and cast similar votes at 2024 AGMs to unambiguously oppose oil and gas expansion.” Fortunately, there are plenty of climate-focused shareholder resolutions on the ballot this season. It sets out news ways to engage that are vital given current shareholder dialogue approaches have failed.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 16, 2022

The resolution will help to forge an international legally binding agreement by the end of 2024. In early March, a UN resolution to end plastic pollution was endorsed at the UN Environment Assembly. The UN said more than 800 marine and coastal species are affected by plastic pollution through ingestion, entanglement and other dangers.

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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: .

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 23, 2025

The same could be said for her, a longtime climate and energy-transition advocate who is deeply invested in several organizations trying to speed up the net-zero economy. I think companies and governments are realizing that actually achieving their net-zero targets is difficult. And there are different ways.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2025

Increasing scrutiny highlights growing divide between leaders and laggards, with asset owners attempting to close the gap. The banking sectors journey to net zero emissions has the potential to deliver or dash global climate ambitions but that journey is fraught with challenges and complications.

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