Chris Hall

JANUARY 30, 2024

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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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

McMurdo anticipates more such rebellions this year, which he says reflects the pervasive greenwashing evident in net zero plans. LAPFF focused on changes to executive pay and discussed Persimmon’s commitment to ensure that all new homes are net-zero by 2030. Disputing divestment.

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Chris Hall

MAY 3, 2022

The effectiveness of asset owner and manager actions in tackling greenwashing by companies is seen as critical to the low-carbon transition. Reclaim Finance notes a “growing trend” within the investor community to condemn exclusion and divestment from heavy emitters as both “unrealistic and ineffective” tools to decarbonise the economy.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

The private sector’s ability to accelerate the pace of net zero transition is open to question. With pension schemes continuing to commit to net zero and concerns rising about the risks from stranded assets , tensions between asset managers and owners may rise further.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2022

These new requirements are part of a bigger push right across the economy for new standards on environmental reporting to weed out greenwashing and support our transition to a net zero financial system – for example, through our new Sustainability Disclosure Requirements ,” she said.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 23, 2023

Similarly, ESG factors featured prominently in the top reasons for investors to reject or divest from real asset investments, with lack of clarity around ESG credentials or impact reported by 38% of respondents, and concerns over the level of performance or disclosure on ESG grounds by 32%, ranked only behind historical underperformance at 47%.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 6, 2022

For ESG-aware investors, this paucity of solid information leads to questions over whether they should they wait for information flows to improve, pinning hope on further action from regulators or legislators, or divest their holdings to avoid uncertainty over the climate risks in their portfolios. Potential evidence of greenwashing.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 7, 2022

Pressure to divest is commonly applied by ESG-conscious investors who no longer want to be associated with these companies or fund them. However, in practice, divestment is not the best strategy to enact change or to have a meaningful impact. The post Investing in Transitional Issuers appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

At COP26, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero ( GFANZ ) declared a sector-wide commitment of US$130 trillion – a number that has increased over the year to US$150 trillion – of private capital to transition the global economy to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. Engagement ring.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

ESG investing has had to overcome numerous challenges, ranging from investor caution to multiple cases of greenwashing. Around 270 asset managers have committed to reducing GHG emissions by tracking carbon intensity as part of their membership of the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative. and the UK rate at 9.9%.

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James Militzer

MARCH 2, 2023

To achieve the Agreement’s goal of net-zero emissions globally by 2050 , we must significantly boost energy efficiency and greatly accelerate the global transition away from fossil fuels, and toward new fuels such as green hydrogen and renewables such as wind, solar and thermal.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 2, 2023

Perhaps more encouragingly, almost a fifth of shareholders voted in favour of resolutions calling on ExxonMobil and Shell to accurately disclose the role of asset transfers in their reported GHG emissions reductions, which would stop them claiming CO2 cuts from divestments.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2023

Large institutional investors have taken divergent approaches to managing the climate risks in their portfolios, with some pension funds divesting fossil fuel holdings. Meanwhile, many have opted to retain their stakes and influence in other carbon-intensive firms as their net zero transition plans evolve.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2023

BNEF expects a larger jump in 2023 thanks to even more generous tax credits for carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) included in the US Inflation Reduction Act, and an acceleration in net-zero transitions by European companies. The divestment movement will wane. Julia Attwood, head of sustainable materials.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

As is their wont, many companies used the occasion to proclaim updated commitments — the buzzword du la semaine was "net-zero" with Walmart declaring a zero-emissions target by 2040 along with a big clean fleet promise and a pledge to "protect, manage or restore" at least 50 million acres of land and 1 million square miles of ocean by 2030.

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Stanford Social Innovation

AUGUST 25, 2022

For sustainable tech to be possible, funders, including investors, philanthropists, and foundations, must develop a two-pronged approach of intentional investments in those leading justice-centered approaches to technological and economic transitions and informed divestments from extractive and fossil-fuel-dependent systems and enterprises.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 8, 2023

The Bonn Climate Conference got under way this week by unveiling a new phase in accountability and transparency of non-state net zero commitments. Race to Zero , previously responsible for non-state campaigns, will partner with UNFCCC in the endeavour. But many investors know they must look beyond their portfolios too.

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