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.

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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.

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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 (..)

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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?

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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.

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Energy Central

JUNE 13, 2023

Originally posted here. Broken Window Economics: an event that seems to be beneficial for those immediately involved can have negative economic consequences for many others. The US and most countries have energy economies based on fossil fuels, plus contributions from nuclear, hydro, geothermal and biomass.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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]

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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.”.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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ESG Today

JULY 25, 2023

Canada’s Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault said: “By eliminating inefficient fossil fuel subsidies, we are encouraging smart and efficient government investment decisions that can increase Canada’s competitiveness in a decarbonizing global economy, while avoiding creation of stranded assets.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 5, 2023

Many corporations “really understate the risks of the sector that they’re operating in, and the risks of stranded assets,” says Carol Adams, an accounting professor at Durham University in the U.K. This is especially true with the Ukraine war driving up oil and gas prices and demand in Europe.

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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?

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

These represent a stranded asset risk of hundreds of billions of dollars and potentially locking in tens of billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.” So far, about one-quarter of the new plants are under construction, GEM reported.

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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

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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.

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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.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 15, 2022

Building a new LNG export facility in Canada sounds like an enormous stranded asset in the making.”.

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