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A trillion reasons to transition off fossil fuels

Corporate Knights

Private investors in rich countries stand to lose more than a trillion dollars on stranded fossil fuel assets as climate policies slash their value, giving them a powerful interest in the transition off carbon, according to new research published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Of the US$1.4

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This is why investors want financial regulators to tackle climate risk

GreenBiz

But a later book of his — "The Fifth Risk" — best explains why we were unprepared for the current pandemic and why we need a different approach to deal with threats such as climate change. . Climate change falls squarely in this category. financial regulators to take proactive steps to understand climate change.

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Why needless growth isn’t needed

GreenBiz

degrees Celsius and avert the worst effects of climate change, but to do so we have to cease oil and gas exploration immediately. If the world heeds that advice, we’ll leave a lot of stranded assets lying around. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere).

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AB: China's State-Owned Enterprises Hold Keys to Carbon Neutral

3BL Media

Understanding how SOEs fit into China’s green reform agenda can help investors identify companies that are driving change—and stand to benefit from efforts to combat climate change. Global efforts to combat climate change won’t be successful without China. The Investment Case. Engagement Goals.

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IPCC issues final warning about ‘rapidly closing window of opportunity’

Corporate Knights

A stark choice between climate stability and global devastation is the constant drumbeat from a landmark report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Already, “widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere , and biosphere have occurred,” the report says.

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Larry Fink says accelerate. He needs to say it much louder

GreenBiz

Every dollar not spent in new ways to cut GHG and to stop the voracious linear economy is investing in future stranded assets. He wants us to embrace the opportunity of climate change and investing; climate risk is investment risk. Sponsored Article. Finance & Investing. Leadership. GreenBiz photocollage.

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‘Extraordinary growth’ in clean energy is keeping the ‘narrowed’ pathway to 1.5 ?C open: IEA

Corporate Knights

These represent a stranded asset risk of hundreds of billions of dollars and potentially locking in tens of billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.” And if you don’t do all of the above, I’m sorry, but I don’t think you could attend to climate change issues.” Read the original article here.

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