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Decarbonising Investment Portfolios on the Journey to Net Zero

3BL Media

CDP found that these financed emissions are on average approximately 700 times higher than the organisation's operational emissions. Change is already underway within the fossil fuel industry, as developments in the Netherlands, United States and Australia indicate. While the process is complex, the pay-offs are considerable.

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A Roadmap for Climate Resiliency Strategy

3BL Media

SASB, GRI, CDP) with new findings and communicate the value of resilience and sustainability to your stakeholders early on and future-proof your sustainability reporting against future SEC regulations. This step will help you identify the riskiest physical locations and products to divest from and access public incentives.

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Escalating Water

Chris Hall

The UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG6) seeks to e nsure access to water and sanitation for all. Negash calls the work groundbreaking, and especially important for GEPF, as it can’t divest from specific sectors easily, given that its investment universe is quite small compared to its global peers.

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No Place to Hide

Chris Hall

Diversification or divestment are not realistic options. As leaders of the Group of 20 met in India in early September, environmental disclosure platform CDP chastised the world’s largest economies for failing to take meaningful action on mandating nature-related disclosures, in line with Target 15 of the Global Biodiversity Framework.

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Investors Search for Answers

Chris Hall

The solution lies in climate resilient development.” In its recent report on environmental disclosures by firms in Southeast Asia, covering climate, water and deforestation, disclosure platform CDP found a 25% increase in forest-related disclosures, with growth rates in the region outstripping global trends.

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The ESG Explainer: Advance Australia, Finally

Chris Hall

While developing Asian countries were “thinking big” about coal phase-out, the positions of Australia, Japan and Korea are “embarrassing and simply untenable”, says Dave Jones, Global Programme Lead, Ember. Ember noted the “major divergence” on coal at COP 26. The position in Australia, which needs to phase-out coal by 2030 to meet 1.5C