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The Energy Trilemma: Affordability, Security and Climate

Chris Hall

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. The sense of optimism at COP26 turned out to be short lived. “We Beast from the east.

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7 Companies Leading the Net Zero Energy Revolution

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DESCRIPTION: Last year marked a global shift in corporations adopting low-carbon and net-zero pledges as experts at the United Nations Climate Change Conference , COP26, declared that the climate crisis is at a critical inflection point. SOURCE: Antea Group. C commitment and 7,126 companies have joined the Race to Zero.

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Overshoot is Here

Chris Hall

For net zero-aligning investors, not one of them will have a complete portfolio without reliance on high carbon economies in non-OECD countries feeding the supply chains of the underlying investments they hold. IPR forecasts the OECD to reach its net zero targets by 2050.

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Edison International 2021 Sustainability Report: Climate Change Mitigation

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This commitment covers the power SCE delivers to customers and Edison International’s enterprisewide operations, including our supply chain. California required SCE and other investorowned utilities to divest the majority of their generation assets beginning in the late 1990s in order to promote competitive energy pricing.

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EU Guidance on Net Zero Cooperation Due in Q2 2022

Chris Hall

At COP26, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) – an umbrella body which includes the NZIA and other sub-sector groups – announced that firms with US$130 trillion AUM had committed to reducing their financed emissions to net zero by 2050, to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Pact's Experts Discuss Why ESG Matters and Partnering for Positive Impact

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Value chains are global and as such, investors have the unique power to hold companies accountable for child labor practices, environmental degradation and poor governance through divestment or the funding of competitors. At COP26 a major step was taken to globally align ESG reporting, with the creation of the ?

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Despite the Headlines, 2021 Was A Year Full of Environmental Victories

Richard Matthews

International cooperation is the goal of the annual Conference of the Parties (COP) and despite being dismissed as a failure, the final agreement at COP26 emphasized the importance of nature and ecosystems, including protecting forests and biodiversity. trillion in assets, have committed to divest. Businesses, banks, and investors.