Chris Hall

JULY 31, 2023

A groundswell of concern is developing around the soundness of economic research used to underpin climate-related risk and investment models. Some actuaries are arguing that “narrative scenarios” – qualitative information to accompany the quantitative data to provide context around climate-related metrics – would help.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Just as critically, transition plans are about embracing the booming new clean economy, creating new markets, and investing in the next batch of winners as this shift continues to accelerate exponentially— and avoiding being left behind with dwindling markets, outmoded business models, and stranded assets. This year, a record $1.8

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

According to the International Energy Agency , the world needs to cut 90% of coal use by 2050 and phase out all unabated coal power plants by 2040 to achieve net-zero emissions and avoid the worst impacts of climate change. These plants are expected to operate for decades and risk becoming “stranded assets” if they retire early.

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3BL Media

MARCH 25, 2022

DESCRIPTION: ESG in Action As climate change intensifies, so do the physical and transition risks to industries and companies. But how do investors quantify those changes? Historically, they’ve measured a portfolio’s climate impact based on its carbon footprint or weighted average carbon intensity. By Sara Rosner.

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ESG Today

JULY 25, 2023

The guidelines released alongside the framework provide a standardized methodology to ensure that future government support is aligned with the country’s climate and energy priorities, and precludes funding of discretionary programs not aligned with the framework.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 25, 2023

Build more investor confidence in green infrastructure projects The greatest fear that many investors have around investing in green infrastructure projects is that they become “stranded assets.” As a result, the private sector will have to invest in the new infrastructure needed for sustainable development goals.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

There is now 783 gigawatts (GW) of oil- and gas-power capacity under development—projects that are either announced or in the pre-construction and construction phases,” wrote Jenny Martos, project manager of GEM’s global gas tracker, and Julie Joly, the organization’s oil and gas programme director, in a post for Carbon Brief.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

To better stimulate investment in climate resilience across Australia and New Zealand, the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) has developed its ‘ Road to Resilience ’ strategy. Estimated annual adaptation financing needs sit between US$160-340 billion by 2030 and US$315-565 billion by 2050.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Breaking with tradition Finance Watch’s latest report , released this week, underscores the stark reality of rising climate risks and calls for economic models that do not mislead, scenario analyses that prepare the market, and a new prudential tool to address the build-up of systemic climate risk.

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Richard Matthews

APRIL 20, 2022

Sustainable economies like these can help us to realize the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Our economic system has failed to address long-standing threats like climate change, biodiversity loss, disease, water scarcity, and inequality. The inspiration economy.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Workers, suppliers, communities and consumers should not be forgotten by institutional investors when developing net zero transition strategies. . The post Stranded Workers a Risk in Unjust Transition appeared first on ESG Investor. It has to be an ever-improving process.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Change is already underway within the fossil fuel industry, as developments in the Netherlands, United States and Australia indicate. Set a target The Science Based Targets initiative ( SBTi ) has developed guidelines on setting science-based targets (SBTs) for the financial sector that require the inclusion of financed emissions.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 12, 2022

Noting that the number of court cases being brought against companies on climate-related grounds has recently topped 2,000, the report says some plaintiffs are seeking to recover the costs of climate change itself, or the expense caused by having to adapt to it. Resort to the courts. Vital role of non-execs.

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 30, 2019

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is supporting countries in the region to achieve these ambitious goals, along with some foreign governments like Germany. In the USA, the Green New Deal has led to national discussions on infrastructure and climate change.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2023

Beyond disclosure According to Segal, the intent of CAFA is to go “beyond disclosure” by requiring financial institutions of all types to align capital with climate action. “[The bill] places assurance that financial institutions will develop transition plans that align with keeping warming below 1.5°C,” C,” she said. “It

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

When it comes to gathering the collective will to tackle climate change, it is often argued that public policy actions and private sector commitments are mutually reinforcing, spurring each side to go further and faster. The private sector’s ability to accelerate the pace of net zero transition is open to question.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2023

This year, investors filed resolutions at seven major US and Canadian banks — Bank of America, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, and Royal Bank of Canada — urging these banks to adopt policies to phase-out clients engaging in new fossil fuel exploration and development.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 23, 2022

The exchanges, and the associated industry of banks, insurers, lawyers and financial services providers, are profiting from activities that are at odds with their countries’ climate commitments and that put investors at risk, the report said. . C, in line with the Paris Agreement goal. . C, in line with the Paris Agreement goal. . “If

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 3, 2024

C of warming, the Inevitable Policy Response calculates that current government policies, ie those in place pre-COP28, will only limit climate change to 1.8°C C and to develop a “whole-of-government approach” to the transition of the real economy to net zero. C has not lessened; if anything, it has increased,” he says.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

Officials cast it as one major part of a process that also includes a phaseout of public financing for domestic fossil fuel projects through Crown agencies like Export Development Canada. In a release Monday, Oil Change International placed the total at $50 billion since 2019. Those guidelines are due to be released in 2024.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Will the promised $100 billion per year be delivered by wealthier countries to enable developing countries to cut emissions and adapt to climate impacts? . Loss and damage relates to climate-related impacts which cannot be adapted to. There has been significant development on reporting standards since COP26.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

These countries need affordable, reliable and clean energy to support their socio-economic development and to mitigate climate change. Should Sub-Saharan African nations continue to develop new coal-fired power generation capacity, they are likely to face similar challenges and costs to those seen in Bangladesh and Pakistan.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2023

Jose Pugas , Head of Responsible Investments and Engagement at JGP Asset Management , explains why scal ing -u p finance between the global north and south for nature-based solutions is essential to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss. Yet the world is changing.

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Sense and Sustainability

JANUARY 12, 2022

Using this definition, the environmental pillar most notably encompasses considerations of climate change in terms of physical and transitional risk for companies, given the projected impacts of climate change. It also includes risks related to resource scarcity (e.g. water), deforestation, waste, and pollution.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 13, 2020

The report’s authors appear to demonstrate how this resistance will escalate as new leases are sold and crude oil projects are developed, threatening the long-term viability of projects and investments. For decades we have made it clear that we don’t want drilling and mining in our territories.

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Chris Hall

MAY 19, 2023

Yet, despite this uncertainty, decarbonisation is a megatrend; driven by the need to reach net zero by 2050 if the world is to avoid catastrophic climate change. For the economy, business and investors, decarbonisation means massive change and a need to completely re-build energy infrastructure.

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Chris Hall

JULY 7, 2023

Therefore, ensuring it stays healthy and able to continue providing those services is crucial to the fight against climate change. Those services are not generated by the water alone, it is the living organisms in the sea that are producing the oxygen and sequestering the carbon.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 21, 2023

“These investors have filed their shareholder resolutions with the finance sector in response to the growing climate crisis and the failure to limit global warming to 1.5°C The post Investors to Hold US Banks and Insurers to Account on Climate appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Investment managers can expect to be grilled in future by their clients on a widening range of ESG topics from public policy engagement to work towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to behavioural benchmark company Accomplish. A long way to go”.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 16, 2022

They promote the implementation of UN Sustainable Development Goal 14 (Life Below Water), and set out ocean-specific standards, allowing the financial industry to mainstream sustainability of ocean-based sectors. Launched in 2018, they act as a global guiding framework for banks, insurers and investors.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

This post originally appeared on Climate Change News. The street and the boardroom are closer than they have ever been on climate. The Glasgow Climate Pact and recent pledges have kept 1.5°C C alive, just. But, to get 1.5ºC out of intensive care we need all these pledges and national plans to be delivered without delay.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2023

In its annual sustainability report , it details how its universal owner status means its stewardship framework must manage risks related to climate change, biodiversity loss, and human rights.

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Richard Matthews

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

To illustrate, BlackRock, the world’s leading investment firm, with more than $7 trillion worth of assets under management, has announced that climate will play a central role in investment considerations. Fossil fuels are at high risk of becoming stranded assets and PEs have a significant stake in the energy sector.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The parallels between the disclosure and risk management frameworks of the TNFD and its forerunner, the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), are welcomed as easing the disclosure burden, but few under-estimate the challenge ahead.

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Chris Hall

MAY 4, 2022

On 25 April, the UK government launched its Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) to develop a transition plan disclosure framework. The TCFD noted that two-thirds of consultation respondents had developed a transition plan or planned to do so within the next 12 months. It is now open to public consultation until 20 May. .

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Chris Hall

MAY 11, 2022

In late April, the UK High Court ruled that charity trustees can consider climate change factors when making decisions over their investments, even if it means making lower returns. How should I respond to wider systemic risks – and opportunities – such as those presented by climate change?

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Chris Hall

JULY 14, 2023

Global temperatures are set to hit record-breaking levels this summer, with regions of persistent high pressure creating heat domes across several southern US states in June, posing health risks to millions of Americans.

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