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Why needless growth isn’t needed

GreenBiz

Stop investing in companies that explore for needless new drilling sites — they’re wasting their money and ours." degrees Celsius and avert the worst effects of climate change, but to do so we have to cease oil and gas exploration immediately. If the world heeds that advice, we’ll leave a lot of stranded assets lying around.

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AB: China's State-Owned Enterprises Hold Keys to Carbon Neutral

3BL Media

Understanding how SOEs fit into China’s green reform agenda can help investors identify companies that are driving change—and stand to benefit from efforts to combat climate change. Global efforts to combat climate change won’t be successful without China. The Investment Case. Engagement Goals.

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IPCC issues final warning about ‘rapidly closing window of opportunity’

Corporate Knights

A stark choice between climate stability and global devastation is the constant drumbeat from a landmark report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Already, “widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere , and biosphere have occurred,” the report says.

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AB: ESG in Action - The Human Touch in Interpreting Climate Scenario Analysis

3BL Media

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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Decarbonising Investment Portfolios on the Journey to Net Zero

3BL Media

Change is already underway within the fossil fuel industry, as developments in the Netherlands, United States and Australia indicate. Understanding emission sources in your portfolio For some organisations, scope 3 emissions may be easy to calculate, understand and reduce, such as those deriving from business flights and waste.

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The High Seas Treaty: How will it Impact Investors?

Chris Hall

Therefore, ensuring it stays healthy and able to continue providing those services is crucial to the fight against climate change. This means associated companies will have to adapt their business models.

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Breaking Down Responsible Investment

Sense and Sustainability

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. water), deforestation, waste, and pollution. It also includes risks related to resource scarcity (e.g.