Environmental Finance

JUNE 10, 2025

Private sector must take more risk to fund transition, says UK National Wealth Fund 10 June 2025 The UKs net-zero targets will only be achievable if the private sector takes on more risk, the head of banking and investments at the UKs National Wealth Fund has argued, adding that the public should not be expected to bear the cost of the transition.

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Environmental Finance

JUNE 24, 2025

Nature rising on the agenda amid anti-climate and ESG rhetoric, says Aviva 24 June 2025 Natural capital is rising on the agenda amid ongoing backlash towards climate and net-zero themes, Aviva has claimed. Defending the indefensible?

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3BL Media

MAY 17, 2022

Extreme weather events increasingly point to a future that will be more dangerous than the climate that has so far underpinned human progress. While investment portfolios will take time to reflect a climate-aligned, resilient approach, in an ideal scenario, we would see an orderly shift to a net-zero economy.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2023

billion to acquire 335 million barrels of oil in Texas and Mexico,” said Patrick DeRochie, Senior Manager of Shift. “The CPPIB is risking our national retirement fund on stranded assets and investing in a future of ever-worsening climate disaster.” The post CAFA to Catapult Canada to Climate Leader appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Environmental Finance

JUNE 10, 2025

Private sector must take more risk to fund transition, says UK National Wealth Fund 10 June 2025 The UKs net-zero targets will only be achievable if the private sector takes on more risk, the head of banking and investments at the UKs National Wealth Fund has argued, adding that the public should not be expected to bear the cost of the transition.

Stranded Assets 40

Stranded Assets Green Bonds Banking Net Zero 40

Chris Hall

JULY 31, 2023

The Real World Climate Scenarios initiative aims to address the issue by developing more relevant scenarios that integrate the complex the overlapping impacts such as geopolitical, extreme weather events, migration and stranded assets, among others.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

“Increasing gas infrastructure must be avoided to avert dangerous climate impacts and stranded assets.”. Instead of slowing down the decarbonisation of the global economy, now is the time to accelerate the energy transition to a renewable energy future.”.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

Further, only 9% have implemented a response to their physical risk exposure.

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Chris Hall

JULY 14, 2023

According to research by MSCI, nearly half (44%) of listed companies have now set decarbonisation targets, representing an eight-percentage-point increase than was reported in the October 2022 MSCI Net-Zero Tracker , but only 17% of those targets would align with the 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 25, 2023

But policy action is slow and uneven: while the first UN water conference in 50 years wrought a long list of commitments (despite a lack of engagement at senior governmental levels) under the Water Action Agenda , these can be overtaken or offset by events; albeit typically ones less dramatic than those seen in Japan this week.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The actions being taken by signatories to WorldGBC’s Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment to tackle whole life carbon are critical because they are driving emissions reductions now and in the future. The businesses and organizations signed up to the commitment account for approximately 6.5 ANALYSIS: . ANALYSIS: .

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2023

The science shows roughly half the world’s population likely to be exposed to the impacts of climate change, and once-in-a-century climate disasters on track to become annual events. Already, “widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere , and biosphere have occurred,” the report says. Overshooting 1.5°C

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 23, 2025

The same could be said for her, a longtime climate and energy-transition advocate who is deeply invested in several organizations trying to speed up the net-zero economy. But if you talk extreme events, droughts, heat waves, people across political spectrums agree it is an issue. But language matters.

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