ESG Today

MARCH 14, 2024

Commenting on the updated targets, Follow This founder Mark van Baal accused the company of “backtracking” on its climate ambitions, putting the company’s future at risk “through policy interventions, disruptive innovation, stranded assets, and accountability for the costs of climate change.”

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2023

Jose Pugas , Head of Responsible Investments and Engagement at JGP Asset Management , explains why scal ing -u p finance between the global north and south for nature-based solutions is essential to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss. Brazil is the most biologically diverse country in the world.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Change is already underway within the fossil fuel industry, as developments in the Netherlands, United States and Australia indicate. Finance climate action Financing climate action can take many forms, such as green bonds or sustainability-linked loans. A simple example is that of a financial investment in a mining company.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Earlier this week, climate change think tank Carbon Tracker hosted a webinar to highlight the opportunity for investors to influence the FCA’s Public Offers and Admissions to Trading Regulations regime (POATR) consultation. The consultation closes on 18 October, with the FCA aiming to finalise rules by the end of H1 2025.

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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.

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Sense and Sustainability

JANUARY 12, 2022

By 2025, 75 percent of the American workforce will consist of Millennials (those born between 1977 and 1995). Using this definition, the environmental pillar most notably encompasses considerations of climate change in terms of physical and transitional risk for companies, given the projected impacts of climate change.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Transition plans should demonstrate alignment with 2030 decarbonisation targets, says UN Climate Envoy. In addition, institutions should have interim decarbonisation targets that are “consistent” with the 2030 target, set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , of reducing CO2 emissions by around 45% from 2010 levels.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

As the voice of progressive business, We Mean Business Coalition is calling on governments to urgently deliver on the $100 billion commitment and make progress on post-2025 climate finance plans. Doing this will build trust between countries and address escalating climate impacts. . What are the barriers to action?

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

The EU’s FuelEU Maritime initiative is also set to apply from 1 January 2025. 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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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 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. To date, for climate disclosures, issuers have only been required to ‘comply or explain’.

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Chris Hall

JULY 14, 2023

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% of global GDP, in 2020, and are expected to increase to 7.4%

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

This along with an end to fossil fuel subsidies by 2025 is the timeline business needs to help get us on track. is also joining RE100 by committing to 100% renewable electricity by 2025. . Meanwhile, Edinburgh City joined over 30 cities in the Climate Champion’s Race to Resilience campaign. Gilead Sciences, Inc.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 23, 2025

That led me to connect with [former Canadian environment and climate change minister] Catherine McKenna, and she said, Mara, why dont we join forces? Because she started this initiative Women Leading on Climate in Glasgow. Men and women are worried about climate change: 46% of men, 49% of women. Women are ready.

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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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