Chris Hall

JANUARY 3, 2024

COP28 reminded investors of the difficulties involved in reaching inter-governmental consensus on intensifying climate action. These were highlighted at last October’s PRI in Person event by Jan Rasmussen, Head of ESG and Sustainability at PensionDanmark. If an investor clings onto the notion that the world is going to hit 1.5°C

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Financial organisations thus have a major role to play in the decarbonisation of the global economy, yet it is estimated that since the Paris Agreement in 2015, the 60 largest banks have instead invested $5.5 Clearly much more needs to be done to pivot towards more sustainable investment and lending practices.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 16, 2022

trillion annually, has attracted just US$13 billion in sustainable investment during the past decade. This explainer looks at the calls for a ‘sustainable blue economy’ and the role investors can play. What can investors and financial institutions do to support ocean sustainability? What is the scale of the problem?

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Chris Hall

MAY 11, 2022

Policy reform, best practice and legal judgments are redefining the relationship between fiduciary duty and sustainable investment. 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.

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Chris Hall

MAY 4, 2022

James Alexander, CEO of the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF), says the TPT’s proposed scope should be extended beyond large listed companies to include “large comparable private companies and unlisted firms because, realistically, these firms have the same level of impact”. .

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

Some companies will start acting and some won’t; there’s more risk of stranded assets.” What role should investors play? Where there’s a challenge (fulfilling the IMO’s 2023 decarbonisation strategy), there’s opportunity (investing in solutions that will enable the sector to achieve net zero)

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2023

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. For investors and companies with assets within those key biodiversity areas, this raises the issue of stranded assets.

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