Why the Paris Agreement poses major stranded asset risk to Indonesian palm oil
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
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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GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Research lays bare scale of stranded asset risk facing Indonesia's palm oil sector if Paris Agreement climate goals are met.
Renew Economy
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
The post “Makes no sense:” Push for new gas pipelines could create $A675bn of stranded assets appeared first on RenewEconomy. A US$500 billion global rush to build new gas pipelines - including Australia's "gas fired recovery" - undermines efforts to achieve zero net goals.
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GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
As with so many climate-related topics, the hypothetical is rapidly turning into the hypercritical.
Impact Alpha
JULY 7, 2020
The post New poster child for stranded assets: Dakota Access Pipeline appeared first on ImpactAlpha. The contested pipeline, opposed by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and a broad coalition of activists, was increasingly an economic millstone.
Environmental Finance
OCTOBER 24, 2022
Governments should compensate oil and gas investors for stranded assets to avoid costly tribunals, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) has said.
Eco-Business
AUGUST 29, 2021
Two thirds of unplanted concessions in Indonesia could be stranded assets by 2040, due to efforts to reduce the sector's impact on forests. But companies that grow sustainably could win big, a new study predicts.
Environmental News Bits
JUNE 6, 2022
Even if the new well is a success, future government policies designed to slow climate change could make the project unprofitable or force it to shut down years … Continue reading Who really owns the oil industry’s future stranded assets? If you own investment funds or expect a pension, it might be you.
Corporate Knights
JUNE 9, 2022
“The ownership distribution reveals an international net transfer of more than 15% of global stranded asset risk to OECD-based investors,” the researchers warn. trillion in stranded assets world-wide, the researchers found that physical stranded assets in OECD countries accounted for a total US$552 billion, or 39.2%.
Impact Alpha
JULY 1, 2020
20: Investors share experiences in getting their assets off the sidelines (video). The post The Brief: Assets off the sidelines (video), Erie’s opportunity zones, Netflix banks Black, carbon tax on meat, Big Energy’s stranded assets appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Featured: Agents of Impact Call No.
Impact Alpha
AUGUST 12, 2020
Living Cities’ Demetric Duckett, Cambridge Associates’ Sarah Hoyt, Sinclair Capital’s Jon Lukomnik and The Investment Integration Project’s Bill Burckart join ImpactAlpha’s David Bank, Monique Aiken and other Agents of Impact, Thursday, The post The Brief: Hourly employee ownership, seeding vertical farms, eco-packaging, e-motorcycles in Brazil, tropical (..)
MSCI
AUGUST 22, 2019
Could plastic become the next stranded asset? Oil and gas companies are accelerating investment in plastics, in response to the shift away from fossil fuels. But is this pivot sustainable?
Impact Alpha
JUNE 16, 2020
The post The Brief: Building community wealth, alt-home-financing, curbing construction carbon, employee financial health, BP’s stranded assets appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha’s next Agents of Impact call will explore how to ramp up.
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Case Study: Stranded Assets and the Economics of a Chinese Power Plant. These differences can be more sharply examined by analyzing the economics of a Chinese power plant and stranded-assets risk. Stranded assets are a common theme in investment analysis of the global energy transition.
Eco-Business
MAY 11, 2021
The country's only domestic source of liquified natural gas is expected to run dry this decade sparking a boom in import terminal projects. But regulatory uncertainty and financial risks could turn them into bad investments.
Eco-Business
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Energy analysts say it is unclear who will buy the soon-to-be stranded assets from the utility firm. Korea Electric Power Corporation suffered from an unprecended deficit in the first half of the year due to high coal and gas prices.
Environmental Finance
APRIL 12, 2023
Japan's six largest banks and energy companies have been hit by shareholder calls to disclose decarbonisation plans, over concerns that fossil fuel expansion will result in stranded assets.
Environmental Finance
APRIL 4, 2023
Despite a movement into 'cleaner' assets, Chinese banks have yet to shift away from coal, which risks leaving many with stranded assets, Sustainable Fitch has said.
Corporate Knights
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
To climate-focused investors, the continued investment in fossil fuels and the scaling back of climate targets is shortsighted given what they see as the need for BP to decouple itself from oil and gas production or face future risks of litigation , regulation and stranded assets.
ESG Today
APRIL 20, 2023
Earlier this week, for example, Canada proposed new rules introducing recycled content requirements for plastic packaging and labelling and reporting requirements for plastic products.
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 9, 2022
Research commissioned by the Changing Markets Foundation surveying 201 respondents from the investment community shows that 82% agreed that climate change presents a material risk to meat and dairy industry-related investments and 84% believe that a lack of mitigation of climate change could lead to stranded assets in this industry.
ESG Today
MAY 4, 2023
Last month, for example, Canada proposed new rules introducing recycled content requirements for plastic packaging and labelling and reporting requirements for plastic products.
Corporate Knights
DECEMBER 9, 2022
A study published in the journal Nature found that Canada alone will face $100 billion in stranded assets by 2036, representing 35% of the book value of oil and gas properties for all oil and gas issuers listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Impact Alpha
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Featured: Stranded Assets A new kind of carbon credit incentivizes fossil fuel producers to ‘keep it in the ground.’. Greetings, Agents of Impact!
GreenBiz
MAY 20, 2021
If the world heeds that advice, we’ll leave a lot of stranded assets lying around. Of course, a chorus of activist investors have been pressing investors, banks and companies to examine their risks on stranded oil and gas assets for more than a decade, knowing this day would arrive.
3BL Media
AUGUST 30, 2022
CDP and Planet Tracker’s High and Dry: How Water Issues Are Stranding Assets , May 2022 report recognizes that “Water risk is already stranding assets across major sectors of the global economy.”.
Energy Central
MAY 24, 2022
Blue hydrogen woes Producing H2 from methane 'does not make sense' during a gas price crisis, and projects may end up as stranded assets within the decade, says IEEFA study. Join: Offshore Wind and Hydrogen [link]
Environmental News Bits
JULY 23, 2021
Physical risks, stranded assets and greater firm default risk expose… Read more → Both climate change and the transition to a carbon neutral economy pose substantial challenges for the economy and the financial system, with the potential to affect growth and inflation in the short term, but also over much longer horizons.
GreenBiz
AUGUST 24, 2020
Investors are already concerned about stranded asset risk in large swathes of the economy, such as energy, utilities, transportation and infrastructure. To reduce this risk, regulators in the U.S.
Corporate Knights
MARCH 22, 2023
If Canada’s pension fund managers don’t take sustainability seriously, he adds, “they could get caught with stranded assets, which will cost their pensioners a lot.” They have a big role to play in facilitating the transition to a low-carbon economy.”
Corporate Knights
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
There is also the risk that fossil fuel infrastructure is retired before the end of its economic lifetime and becomes a stranded asset—a liability taxpayers would likely pay for.” “Building new natural gas-fired power plants means locking in emissions—and costs—for many years to come.
Environmental News Bits
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
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Renewable Energy World
JULY 26, 2021
The focus of our argument beyond reduction of GHG emissions was that the installation of natural-gas-fed electric power generators would be a “stranded asset.” Stranded assets are unable to earn their original economic return due to changes in the landscape in which the assets operate.
Chris Hall
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Stranded assets, defaults in thermal power, steel and cement sectors may increase if companies do not shift to low-carbon alternatives. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has revealed the results of its first phase of climate risk stress tests of major banks in the country.
Corporate Knights
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
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. Their disclosures will signal to the rest of the world, including their own shareholders, whether they are reducing their financed emissions.
ESG Today
JANUARY 25, 2023
Build more investor confidence in green infrastructure projects The greatest fear that many investors have around investing in green infrastructure projects is that they become “stranded assets.” To prevent this, governments must make a long-term commitment to a green energy source such as hydrogen or nuclear.
Chris Hall
MAY 12, 2022
Ex-BoE chief calls for “radical new approach” to mobilising investment in emerging and developed markets; also warns of stranded assets. This would lead to more stranded assets in the medium term, waned the former Bank of England governor, requiring “a more granular breakdown of the use of proceeds of new fossil fuel financing. “In
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
Every dollar not spent in new ways to cut GHG and to stop the voracious linear economy is investing in future stranded assets. For investors, the acceleration question is: What are the companies in your portfolio doing in 2021 to cut pollution by 10 to 15 percent this year?
Chris Hall
MAY 6, 2022
Sixty-nine percent of listed equities reporting via CDP’s platform stated they are exposed to water risks that could “generate a substantive change in their business”, said CDP’s report on how water issues are stranding assets. Water risk factors and stranded assets.
3BL Media
AUGUST 23, 2022
When planning phases span decades, it is important to avoid the consequences of getting locked into path dependency or stranded assets by having a clear understanding of technology maturity and cost. “Decarbonisation strategies require the long view.
Impact Alpha
DECEMBER 6, 2019
6 – The risk that fossil fuel investments will become ‘stranded assets’ went from fringe thesis to mainstream preoccupation in what must be near-record time. ImpactAlpha, Dec. It’s not a theory: this week, the Spanish oil producer Repsol took a $5.3
Corporate Knights
OCTOBER 11, 2022
While some investments are neutral (deemed neither “clean” nor “dirty”), in many cases these companies are still investing most of their capital into assets that will either lock in further GHG emissions or become stranded assets as the energy transition takes shape. dollars) through 2030.
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
Those failing to do so will find the risk of stranded assets to be high and rising. For companies that leveraged aggressively in this period, refinancing and follow-on financing strategies in the coming years must pivot toward the equity markets.
Corporate Knights
AUGUST 15, 2022
Building a new LNG export facility in Canada sounds like an enormous stranded asset in the making.”.
3BL Media
MAY 17, 2022
Financial institutions that start with managing their own footprint and supply chains will deliver limited climate impact compared to aligning their balance sheets to lower emissions investments that embed resilience and minimize their exposure to stranded assets.
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