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The biggest carbon losers

Corporate Knights

Yet the pace and scale of their reductions is in the realm of what every company and country must do by 2030 to keep the faith of the Paris Agreement. But 40% of the reductions came from divesting, or selling off, dirty assets, which from the atmosphere’s perspective is akin to rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

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Decarbonising Investment Portfolios on the Journey to Net Zero

3BL Media

Financed emissions are the share of operational emissions from the companies under an institution's investment/lending portfolio, with methodologies such as PCAF or JIM providing a system for measuring these emissions. Clearly much more needs to be done to pivot towards more sustainable investment and lending practices.

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Keeping on the Straight and Narrow

Chris Hall

Only 1% of over 13,000 corporates across 13 industries and 117 countries disclosed against 24 key climate transition plan indicators, according to a 2021 report by sustainability disclosure platform CDP. C of global warming promised by signatories of the Paris Agreement. .

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Investors Search for Answers

Chris Hall

And while there are instructive parallels with the catalytic impact of the Paris Agreement on identifying and mitigating climate risks by the private sector, there are also important differences. For investors and companies with assets within those key biodiversity areas, this raises the issue of stranded assets.