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Engagement Alone Unable to Resolve Energy Impasse – PME

Chris Hall

Pension fund makes case for divestment, against backdrop of increasingly positive climate policy across major markets. This conclusion was drawn after several years of engaging in discussions with the fossil fuel industry,” he said, underscoring the need for more “substantial and immediate” actions to combat climate change.

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HOOPP: Canadian Taxonomy Will Raise Accountability on Climate

Chris Hall

Pension scheme says country’s new framework will support its net zero strategy; asserts that divestment of fossil fuels amounts to “passing the buck ”. Engagement over divestment The Canadian Pension Climate Report Card , which benchmarks schemes’ decarbonisation efforts, criticised HOOPP for lack of ambition in January.

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Take Five: No Magic Green Wand

Chris Hall

The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change , however, remained optimistic , endorsing the 2040 Impact Assessment’s recognition of the need for a collaborative approach to project pipelines and finance models, based on a “predictable and simplified” regulatory environment. Just one more.

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Scaling Climate Solutions “Intertwined” with Coherent Policy Incentives

Chris Hall

Global perspective Also speaking at the event, John Mulligan, Director, Market Relations and Climate Change Lead, World Gold Council, said that the investment community must move away from “short-termism” with regard to how it measures value. “How do we value loss?”

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Take Five: IPCC Chair Issues Spoiler Alert

Chris Hall

In Interlaken, Switzerland, governments conducted the painstaking business of approving the key messages for policymakers of the latest Synthesis Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), aka the world’s foremost climate scientists. In Japan, progress is even slower, admittedly, but anticipation is high.