Corporate Knights

JANUARY 25, 2023

Historically, some 40% of the raw materials entering the site do so by freight ships. In the summer of 2018, these were scraping bottom; cargo traffic was reduced to a trickle, and ships could be only partially laden. It has publicly endorsed the Paris Agreement on climate change as well as the EU’s target of being net-zero by 2050.

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Climate Change Net Zero Stranded Assets Shipping 303

Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

The document also holds out the possibility of subsidies for carbon trading deals under Article 6 of the Paris agreement, and for Indigenous participation in fossil fuel projects. After that massive an investment, “no way the pipeline is going to recover costs,” Morningstar analyst Stephen Ellis told Bloomberg News in March.

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Paris Agreement Bend the Curve Carbon Offsets Stranded Assets 246

3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

times higher than the UK's own greenhouse gas emissions (excluding aviation and shipping). Financial organisations thus have a major role to play in the decarbonisation of the global economy, yet it is estimated that since the Paris Agreement in 2015, the 60 largest banks have instead invested $5.5 trillion USD in fossil fuels.

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Net Zero Divestment Banking Stranded Assets 147

Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2023

Delaying those actions “would lock in high-emissions infrastructure, raise risks of stranded assets and cost escalation, reduce feasibility, and increase losses and damages.” But some meeting participants warned that those delays are baked into the process by some of the key assumptions in the IPCC’s modelling.

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Climate Change Decarbonize Stranded Assets Paris Agreement 273

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. International shipping accounted for 2% of global energy-related CO2 emissions last year, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). What progress has the IMO made?

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

C and implement the Paris Agreement and will be welcomed by the business community. C temperature goal of the Paris Agreement alive, and to ensure a just transition. . It makes no long-term sense to continue pumping money into an asset that is already destined to eventually have no value — a stranded asset.

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