Chris Hall

MAY 11, 2022

Policy reform, best practice and legal judgments are redefining the relationship between fiduciary duty and sustainable investment. In late April, the UK High Court ruled that charity trustees can consider climate change factors when making decisions over their investments, even if it means making lower returns.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Discussing climate and nature risks at roundtable hosted in Hong Kong in early October by ESG Investor and S&P Global Sustainable 1, organisations acknowledged the links between the two. “If This has echoes of the issue of stranded assets arising from decarbonisation of the energy supply over the past decade or so.”

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Richard Matthews

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

PE firms have helped to grow the popularity of impact investing. According to a report published by Ceres , the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative has grown to 128 investors who collectively manage $43 trillion. A large and growing share of that investment capitol is going towards impact investments.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

“Increasing gas infrastructure must be avoided to avert dangerous climate impacts and stranded assets.”. By including gas, the EU is “giving the false impression that gas is ‘green’, which might lead to the wrong investment decisions” and potentially “delay the large-scale investments we need into renewables”, says Diamantopoulou.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The UK’s net zero transition depends on huge amounts of private capital that can only be unlocked through climate policy certainty. Go like the wind The global energy crisis, sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, highlighted the importance of ensuring a steady flow of domestic, sustainable energy supply.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

With global trade highly dependent on shipping, achieving net zero may put wind in the sails of other industries’ climate ambitions. Zero or near-zero GHG emission technologies, fuels and/or energy sources must represent at least 5% (striving for 10%) of the energy used by international shipping by 2030, the IMO has pledged.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 16, 2022

trillion annually, has attracted just US$13 billion in sustainable investment during the past decade. This explainer looks at the calls for a ‘sustainable blue economy’ and the role investors can play. The ocean economy, estimated to be worth US$2.5 What is the scale of the problem?

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Chris Hall

APRIL 20, 2022

Net-zero CO2 energy systems entail: a substantial reduction in overall fossil fuel use, minimal use of unabated fossil fuels, and use of CCS in the remaining fossil system,” says the report. C or below will leave a substantial amount of fossil fuels unburned and could strand considerable fossil fuel infrastructure.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2023

With nature more broadly, there are further layers of complexity,” said Eric Nietsch, Head of Sustainable Investing, Asia, Manulife Investment Management. For investors and companies with assets within those key biodiversity areas, this raises the issue of stranded assets.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 29, 2022

Leading US banks and insurers will face votes at their upcoming AGMs asking for policies aligned with the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) net zero roadmap , after challenges to shareholder resolutions were rejected. . Risk of stranded assets . targets. . Making good on commitments .

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