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Investors Face Direct Risk from Climate Litigation

Chris Hall

Direct litigation risks include challenging investors’ mismanagement of climate and biodiversity-related risk, breaches of fiduciary duty, greenwashing, or financing environmental and human rights-related harms.

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Investors Face Rising Direct Risk from Climate Litigation

Chris Hall

Direct litigation risks include challenging investors’ mismanagement of climate and biodiversity-related risk, breaches of fiduciary duty, greenwashing, or financing environmental and human rights-related harms.

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ICYMI, Governments and Regulators are Making the Running

Chris Hall

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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Investors Still in the Dark on Climate Risks to Firms’ Finances

Chris Hall

Investors continue to suffer from poor-quality climate-related information in company reports and other statements, particularly from firms with the highest CO2 emissions. That’s the finding of a major new report by Carbon Tracker, the independent think tank that researches the effects of climate change on financial markets.

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Investors Search for Answers

Chris Hall

For investors and companies with assets within those key biodiversity areas, this raises the issue of stranded assets. A limited toolbox A further lesson from investors’ experience of understanding and addressing climate risk has been to not let perfect being the enemy of good, from the perspective of information quality.