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Energy Giants Come Under Shareholder Pressure on Emissions

Chris Hall

The company has previously come under pressure from shareholders to improve its performance on Paris Agreement alignment. US shareholder action. Reducing Scope 3 emissions, which account for the vast majority of those produced by energy firms, is essential to limiting global heating, the resolution states. Pressure on Amazon.

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Beware the Green Swan

Chris Hall

Almost seven years since the Paris Agreement was signed at COP21, any number of initiatives have been launched with the aim of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and limiting global warming to 1.5°C.

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ICYMI, Governments and Regulators are Making the Running

Chris Hall

Resolutions calling for Chevron and ExxonMobil to align with the Paris Agreement also failed , albeit gaining more support, while investors did back votes calling for US oil and gas giants to report on their methane emissions and transition risks respectively.

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Listed Equities’ Carbon Well Exceeds Paris Target

Chris Hall

C, in line with the Paris Agreement goal. . “If The report warns that fossil fuel demand will peak as government policies to cut emissions, asset owners’ net-zero commitments and the rapid growth of clean energy technologies combine to transition the economy towards renewables. C goal. .

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The Climate Blockers: BASF quietly lobbies against strong climate policy while talking a big game

Corporate Knights

It has publicly endorsed the Paris Agreement on climate change as well as the EU’s target of being net-zero by 2050. But companies won’t meet the challenge by dodging it, or lobbying themselves into a corner, surrounded by their own stranded assets.

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Litigation Surge Reflects Evolving Climate Duties

Chris Hall

These two bodies have published an updated edition of their ‘Primer on Climate Change: Directors’ Duties and Disclosure Obligations’, which provides “an overview of contemporary evidence that that climate change presents foreseeable, and in many cases material, financial and systemic risks that affect corporations and their investors”.

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The Glasgow Climate Pact for business: ambition, action and collaboration.

We Mean Business Coalition

After the Paris Agreement the message was clear: Ambition, Ambition, Ambition. These include a commitment by nations to increase their emissions targets to pursue the 1.5ºC objective of the Paris Agreement and rules for a robust and transparent global carbon market. C alive, just.

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