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Decarbonising Investment Portfolios on the Journey to Net Zero

3BL Media

Understanding emission sources in your portfolio For some organisations, scope 3 emissions may be easy to calculate, understand and reduce, such as those deriving from business flights and waste. South Pole can help you navigate the existing framework as well as the new net zero guidance (FINZ) which will replace it in Q4 2023.

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Why needless growth isn’t needed

GreenBiz

Stop investing in companies that explore for needless new drilling sites — they’re wasting their money and ours." In its landmark Net Zero report , the IEA said that there is still a path to limit global warming to 1.5 If the world heeds that advice, we’ll leave a lot of stranded assets lying around. Emily Chasan.

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Former UK Conservative Energy Minister Resigns over Government Plan for New North Sea Oil & Gas Licenses

ESG Today

In his letter, however, Skidmore, while acknowledging “a role for oil and gas in the transition to net zero,” notes that the IEA and UNCCC have said that reaching net zero by 2050 and limiting temperature rise to 1.5C

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The “Ripple Effect” of Universal Ownership

Chris Hall

trillion in AuM that have committed to transitioning their investment to achieve net zero portfolio GHG emissions by 2050 and drawing on the Net Zero Investment Framework to deliver on that commitment. Stranded assets AP7 is a member of the Paris Aligned Asset Owners Initiative, a global group of 56 asset owners with over US$3.3

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IPCC issues final warning about ‘rapidly closing window of opportunity’

Corporate Knights

Delaying those actions “would lock in high-emissions infrastructure, raise risks of stranded assets and cost escalation, reduce feasibility, and increase losses and damages.” The IPCC says reducing food loss and food waste has the least impact among a list of strategies. Overshooting 1.5°C

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At long last, Canada restricts oil and gas subsidies (except for all the loopholes)

Corporate Knights

The Fine Print on Carbon Credits The definitions in the federal document take a fairly expansive view of “inefficient” subsidies that “encourage wasteful consumption, reduce our energy security, impede investment in clean energy sources, and undermine efforts to deal with the threat of climate change,” as the G20 defined the term in 2009.

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G7: Go all in for clean energy to cut family bills, create jobs and drive economic growth

We Mean Business Coalition

Policies designed to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels to net-zero will also create millions of new jobs around the world, including 15 million jobs in India within the next 3 years. . Instead, such investments will leave companies and economies with costly stranded assets in the years ahead.