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Why the Paris Agreement poses major stranded asset risk to Indonesian palm oil

GreenBiz

Research lays bare scale of stranded asset risk facing Indonesia's palm oil sector if Paris Agreement climate goals are met.

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BP hits the brakes on transition away from fossil fuels

Corporate Knights

Follow This plans to introduce a resolution at BP’s annual general meeting in May calling for the company to align its 2030 targets with the Paris Agreement. In order to do that, BP’s emissions would need to fall by 45% by 2030. Investors have much more to worry about than the return on capital of oil majors.

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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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All Systems go for Net Zero

Chris Hall

Now they must wait to see how signatories to the Paris Agreement act on the commitments outlined in the official response to the Global Stocktake, as well as multiple other pledges announced across the two weeks before that final text was signed, sealed and gavelled. C has not lessened; if anything, it has increased,” he says. “It’s

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Advocates urge regulation of banks’ climate commitments to avoid greenwashing

Corporate Knights

The banks ’ climate plans need to be mandatory, subject to enforcement and fully aligned with climate science including a planned phaseout of high-emitting assets, said Andrews. . The more invested they remain in carbon-intensive assets, the greater the risk they face of holding stranded assets that lose value due to the transition.

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Guest Post: Why Governments Must Encourage More Investment in Green Infrastructure, Now!

ESG Today

By: Chris Lewis, Global Infrastructure Leader at EY At COP27 in November last year, there was an overwhelming consensus that the target of lowering global temperatures by 1.5 ° C – as outlined in the historic Paris Agreement – is now at risk of not being met, unless the world acts now.

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Shell Sets 2030 Goal to Reduce Emissions from Customers’ Use of Gasoline and Diesel

ESG Today

Commenting on the updated targets, Follow This founder Mark van Baal accused the company of “backtracking” on its climate ambitions, putting the company’s future at risk “through policy interventions, disruptive innovation, stranded assets, and accountability for the costs of climate change.”