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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. In terms of sustainable capital expenditures, as a whole the 20 companies projected total sustainable investments of $528 billion (all figures in U.S.

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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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4 Sustainable Business Trends to watch in 2021

Carlos Sanchez

On the other hand, sustainability and climate change have never been so much in focus. In 2020, more than 9,600 companies disclosed their environmental impacts through the non-profit CDP platform. It represents a growth of 14% from last year and sets a record on the number of CDP environmental disclosures. Conclusions.

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More Relief than Regret as Montreal Fails to Make it Mandatory

Chris Hall

The GBF’s Goal D, on implementation, contained an unambiguous commitment to aligning public and private financial flows to its overall objectives, with supporting language in the enabling targets, analogous to the Paris Agreement clauses that put climate change on the global agenda in 2015. “We

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Think Global, Act Local

Chris Hall

Management of nature-related risks, impacts and dependencies could soon become central to asset owners’ sustainable investment strategies. From Paris to Kunming. The 2015 Paris Agreement set a single goal, of keeping climate change to 2°C above pre-industrial levels, albeit modified in 2018 to 1.5°C Article 2.1.c

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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. Critically, assessing nature risks is undoubtedly a more multi-faceted process than counting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.