Corporate Knights

MARCH 22, 2023

A group of finance experts tasked with developing a definitive taxonomy of sustainability for Canadian investors has just filed a preliminary roadmap, but they likely won’t publish a detailed taxonomy until 2025. They have a big role to play in facilitating the transition to a low-carbon economy.”

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Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2022

Ex-BoE chief calls for “radical new approach” to mobilising investment in emerging and developed markets; also warns of stranded assets. Given the enormous resources of GFANZ, a radical new approach to mobilising private capital investment in emerging markets and developing economies can be developed,” he said.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 25, 2023

Build more investor confidence in green infrastructure projects The greatest fear that many investors have around investing in green infrastructure projects is that they become “stranded assets.” As a result, the private sector will have to invest in the new infrastructure needed for sustainable development goals.

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ESG Today

JULY 25, 2023

Canada’s Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault said: “By eliminating inefficient fossil fuel subsidies, we are encouraging smart and efficient government investment decisions that can increase Canada’s competitiveness in a decarbonizing global economy, while avoiding creation of stranded assets.

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Richard Matthews

APRIL 20, 2022

Sustainable economies like these can help us to realize the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This blend of free markets and state control is the dominant economic system in the vast majority of developed nations in the world today. Increasingly this also includes offshore renewable energy development.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 6, 2023

All told, 24 would-be LNG developers have received natural-gas export permits from the federal energy regulator, though many of those will not proceed. Ottawa is currently developing a transition taxonomy – essentially a guideline as to which types of investments are appropriate in the transition to a net-zero economy.

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Chris Hall

MAY 6, 2022

Sixty-nine percent of listed equities reporting via CDP’s platform stated they are exposed to water risks that could “generate a substantive change in their business”, said CDP’s report on how water issues are stranding assets. Water risk factors and stranded assets.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 23, 2022

In the eBook, Black & Veatch’s water and energy experts propose that developing robust decarbonisation roadmaps will help mining companies manage and understand limited budgets, technology timelines and complex regulations over potentially a 30-year span, a timeframe similar to making major infrastructure investments.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Workers, suppliers, communities and consumers should not be forgotten by institutional investors when developing net zero transition strategies. . The post Stranded Workers a Risk in Unjust Transition appeared first on ESG Investor. Orderly path to net zero requires social and natural dimensions to be built into transition plans.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Just as critically, transition plans are about embracing the booming new clean economy, creating new markets, and investing in the next batch of winners as this shift continues to accelerate exponentially— and avoiding being left behind with dwindling markets, outmoded business models, and stranded assets. This year, a record $1.8

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

According to its website, The Constellation Prize “sheds a light on how engineering can be done to promote new modes of engagement, research, development, and design that elevate the values of environmental protection, social justice, human rights, and peace.”.

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GreenBiz

MAY 8, 2020

The result: Commercial office spaces could become stranded assets, subject to write-downs and operating losses. . In the short term, landlords are worried struggling companies will renegotiate leases or shift to a work-from-home model, requiring less office space writ large.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

There is now 783 gigawatts (GW) of oil- and gas-power capacity under development—projects that are either announced or in the pre-construction and construction phases,” wrote Jenny Martos, project manager of GEM’s global gas tracker, and Julie Joly, the organization’s oil and gas programme director, in a post for Carbon Brief.

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Chris Hall

JULY 31, 2023

A groundswell of concern is developing around the soundness of economic research used to underpin climate-related risk and investment models.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

To better stimulate investment in climate resilience across Australia and New Zealand, the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) has developed its ‘ Road to Resilience ’ strategy. International adaptation finance flows to developing countries are ten times below estimated needs, according to the UN’s 2022 Adaptation Gap report.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2023

This year, investors filed resolutions at seven major US and Canadian banks — Bank of America, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, and Royal Bank of Canada — urging these banks to adopt policies to phase-out clients engaging in new fossil fuel exploration and development.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

Officials cast it as one major part of a process that also includes a phaseout of public financing for domestic fossil fuel projects through Crown agencies like Export Development Canada. Those guidelines are due to be released in 2024. In a release Monday, Oil Change International placed the total at $50 billion since 2019.

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3BL Media

MAY 17, 2022

Financial institutions that start with managing their own footprint and supply chains will deliver limited climate impact compared to aligning their balance sheets to lower emissions investments that embed resilience and minimize their exposure to stranded assets.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 23, 2022

Carbon Tracker suggested changes to listings rules would reduce investors’ exposures, as would the further development of alternative indexes. . This could lead to vast amounts of stranded assets if oil, gas and coal companies continue with business as usual. . C, in line with the Paris Agreement goal. .

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Will the promised $100 billion per year be delivered by wealthier countries to enable developing countries to cut emissions and adapt to climate impacts? . Innovative thinking that develops new models of cooperation can also effectively channel private finance to the places it is most needed. What are the barriers to action?

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Change is already underway within the fossil fuel industry, as developments in the Netherlands, United States and Australia indicate. Set a target The Science Based Targets initiative ( SBTi ) has developed guidelines on setting science-based targets (SBTs) for the financial sector that require the inclusion of financed emissions.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2023

Delaying those actions “would lock in high-emissions infrastructure, raise risks of stranded assets and cost escalation, reduce feasibility, and increase losses and damages.” But some meeting participants warned that those delays are baked into the process by some of the key assumptions in the IPCC’s modelling.

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Sustainability Matters

MARCH 20, 2023

Lesley Hughes , Climate Councillor, former IPCC author and Distinguished Professor of Biology at Macquarie University, labelled Australia as one of the most vulnerable developed countries to the impacts of climate change. As a nation, she said Australia has much to lose and everything to gain by acting decisively to get emissions plummeting.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

These countries need affordable, reliable and clean energy to support their socio-economic development and to mitigate climate change. Commercial financial institutions worldwide continue to support coal power plant development indirectly, despite having implemented policies to exclude direct financing of new coal-fired generation assets.

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 30, 2019

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is supporting countries in the region to achieve these ambitious goals, along with some foreign governments like Germany. The dialogue explored the vision and challenges for countries to achieve decarbonization by 2050.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

Perhaps these outcomes should not be a surprise after BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, described many 2022 climate resolutions as “ prescriptive or constraining ”. The post ICYMI, Governments and Regulators are Making the Running appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 3, 2024

Dr Tom Gosling, Executive Fellow at London Business School, has argued that some asset managers are effectively pulling their punches on net zero, holding off on implementing their collective and individual commitments, awaiting stronger policy direction from politicians. Lee suggests not. “In

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2023

Beyond disclosure According to Segal, the intent of CAFA is to go “beyond disclosure” by requiring financial institutions of all types to align capital with climate action. “[The bill] places assurance that financial institutions will develop transition plans that align with keeping warming below 1.5°C,” C,” she said. “It

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

But perhaps it should not include Total, which faces a rocky AGM in May, especially if it continues to struggle to find the finance to develop two Ugandan oil fields , in partnership with Chinese state-owned oil company CNOOC.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Not the least of these developments is the shifting profile of the market, from one dominated by charitable institutions and public sector bodies to one that accommodates harder-headed investors looking for top-class returns alongside positive outcomes. She cites as an example the re-development of King’s Cross in London.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Investment fonds are optimizing their property asset portfolios from an energy efficiency perspective. While highly energy-inefficient buildings run the risk of becoming stranded assets, investments into energy management and optimization can increase property value significantly.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 25, 2023

From Stockholm to Vancouver, developments this week pointed to some of the challenges awaiting climate negotiators in Dubai. A selection of this week’s major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces.

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Chris Hall

MAY 26, 2022

The report outlines the risks to the EU’s climate transition if new fossil gas infrastructure and assets continue to be developed and invested in, highlighting low-carbon or ‘green’ hydrogen expansion as a more sustainable alternative. . The EU must “leapfrog” from fossil fuels to renewable energy to stay on track with a 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

MAY 19, 2023

With global governments already under pressure to sign binding agreements to ‘scale down’ fossil fuel use at COP28 in November 2023, the economic and political case for developing renewables to replace existing energy infrastructure as well as for new energy capacity is growing. Globally, meeting the Paris targets of 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2023

Even so, we have developed a pipeline of over ten large nature-based solutions to be financed during 2023, with an overall potential of 40,000 hectares of agroforestry and productive restoration. It’s part of our fiduciary duty to be at the forefront of efforts to scale up and re-allocate capital. Yet the world is changing.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The development team is working to quantify this energy and carbon-reduction benefit — along with potential CAPEX and OPEX savings — so stay tuned for those metrics. Sustainable software development. An exciting, emerging area of sustainable computing is sustainable software development (SSD). Developer Sustainability Dashboard.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 13, 2023

“It’s currently not possible to capture [80-95%] of oil and gas emissions from it, meaning oil and gas firms will still need to be phasing out a significant proportion of their emissions very rapidly.

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