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Decarbonising Investment Portfolios on the Journey to Net Zero

3BL Media

For financial institutions such as banks, insurance companies and investment managers, scope 3 emissions from supply chains and lending/investment portfolios are often more complex than for other industries. For example, the indicative financed emissions from the UK financial sector in 2019 were found to be 1.8

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No Quick Fix to Europe’s Gas Dependency

Chris Hall

Even Germany’s decision to permanently shelve Nord Stream 2 , the partial ejection of Russian banks from Swift , and oil and gas majors exiting equity partnerships with Russian companies in recent days have been ignored by the former intelligence officer. Economic sanctions have so far failed to shake President Vladimir Putin’s resolve.

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COP26 Live Blog: All in for 1.5ºC

We Mean Business Coalition

The Global Resilience Index launched today, will help improve the way insurers, financiers and investors measure the resilience of countries, companies and supply chains. It makes no long-term sense to continue pumping money into an asset that is already destined to eventually have no value — a stranded asset.

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