Chris Hall

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Pension fund makes case for divestment, against backdrop of increasingly positive climate policy across major markets. In response, PME has divested from fossil fuel investments and redirected the funds towards the energy transition by focusing on solar and wind projects.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2022

The DWP issued a consultation last October on proposed changes to the Occupational Pension Schemes (Climate Change Governance and Reporting) Regulations 2021 to require trustees to calculate and disclose a portfolio alignment metric to show alignment with the goal of limiting climate change to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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Chris Hall

JULY 14, 2023

Road to COP28 Despite this evolution in climate awareness, the current rate of emissions growth and the uneven attempts to curb it mean that it is increasingly likely that global temperatures will exceed the 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

As global momentum builds behind transition planning, Mark Manning, Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics, makes the case for a systemic response to the challenges of climate change. Arguably, we need to be thinking about transition planning as a system response to the challenges of climate change.”

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

Adaptation themes will be incorporated into the network’s workstreams over the next two years. 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.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 29, 2023

Joined-up climate polic ies seen as vital to catalyse a “generational shift ” towards climate investments, t echnologies and solutions this decade.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 26, 2022

Aviva Investors expressly referred to divestment as a potential strategy to achieve these goals. State Street Global Advisors’ (SSGA) CEO, Cyrus Taraporevala, said in his letter to CEOs that the manager will support the acceleration of the systemic transformations underway in climate change and the diversity of boards and workforces.

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Sustainability Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In recent years there has been a global push for increased transparency on the financial implications of climate change. As extreme weather events grow in both frequency and magnitude under the changing climate, decarbonisation plans need to be adapted to build resilience to these more potent extremes.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 23, 2022

Despite suffering severe impacts from climate change, Australia remains married to coal, but alternative energy opportunities are emerging. Many of the communities dealing with this recent flooding have already had to deal with a range of cascading climate events in recent years.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 12, 2022

De-risking in response to global events is narrowing allocations, however, with a decrease in investment to alternative markets despite there being growing interest in areas such as green energy infrastructure. For context, 2019’s survey had 68% of charities viewing climate change as a responsibility. Risk appetite fall.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

If the aim of restricting climate change to within the Paris-agreed 1.5°C C increase over pre-industrial temperatures was hanging by a thread at the end of COP26, subsequent economic and geopolitical events appear to have dealt a blow to those ambitions – at least in the short term.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 10, 2022

“Environmental issues have been a top priority for trustees, particularly with the publication of the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] reports and various commitments to net zero,” she says.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 3, 2022

Carbon-Free, Infrastructure & Other (CFIO) reported a Net Loss of $174 million ($0.35 This compares to a second quarter 2021 Net Loss of $486 million and non-GAAP Operating Earnings of $47 million, which included results of the divested fossil and solar assets. This event can be accessed by visiting [link] to register.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 29, 2023

A fragmented policy environment for the net zero transition requires investors to adopt a holistic approach to engagement, says BNY Mellow Sustainability Head. If global temperatures rise above 1.5°C, These sectors are vital for future economic growth such as the steel, automotive, buildings and chemicals sectors.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 17, 2023

A selection of this week’s major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces. Investors and policymakers signalled mixed progress in their support for net zero transition this week, ahead of a critical report from scientists. More policy action is promised, later this month, in an event dubbed ‘ Green Day ’.

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Chris Hall

MAY 17, 2023

Technology provider firm Broadridge Financial Solutions recently published a white paper on investors’ growing interest in pass-through voting, noting how it is fostering “the democratisation of investing in a major way”, giving investors a voice in how their asset managers vote proxies on the underlying equities in a specific fund.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Climate risk and resilience are largely modeled by insurance companies, looking at how a company’s assets may be affected by rising sea levels, extreme heat, increasing natural disasters and other future climate events as climate change worsens. Learn about the future of #climate investing from @Nasdaq: [link].

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3BL Media

MARCH 25, 2024

Forward-looking statements reflect the company’s current expectations and projections about future events at the time, and thus involve uncertainty and risk. dollar, (18) changes in tax laws or U.S. dollar, (18) changes in tax laws or U.S.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

As with virtually all gatherings of the climate community during the COVID age, this year’s Climate Week was convened as an online event — one hosted from more than 20 countries across myriad time zones rather than its usual host city of New York. . The intention is to align its portfolio with the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

Environmental successes are easily overlooked in a world ravaged by climate change, biodiversity loss, an ongoing global pandemic and attacks against democracy. The dystopian legacy of the former president is becoming increasingly clear to all but the willfully ignorant as is his politicization of climate change and COVID.

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