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AB: ESG in Action - The Human Touch in Interpreting Climate Scenario Analysis

3BL Media

The evolving climate drives physical risks—damaged or stranded assets and business-interruption costs from severe weather events. For example, one provider calculates a company’s physical risk based solely on its headquarters location, despite its global supply chain stretching across far-flung manufacturing locations.

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Decarbonising Investment Portfolios on the Journey to Net Zero

3BL Media

For financial institutions such as banks, insurance companies and investment managers, scope 3 emissions from supply chains and lending/investment portfolios are often more complex than for other industries. Clearly much more needs to be done to pivot towards more sustainable investment and lending practices.

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Breaking Down Responsible Investment

Sense and Sustainability

indigenous populations), as well as working conditions throughout the supply chain (e.g. A sister of responsible investment is Impact Investing , which is a more proactive approach in investing with the ‘ intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact alongside financial return.’

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Unfinished Business

Chris Hall

Mixed picture Do climate-related disclosures provide investors with the decision-useful information they need as they seek to reduce portfolios emissions while orientating capital to climate-positive investments? This has echoes of the issue of stranded assets arising from decarbonisation of the energy supply over the past decade or so.”

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No Quick Fix to Europe’s Gas Dependency

Chris Hall

In a letter to the Commission, WindEurope explained how low volumes of permitted projects have impacted Europe’s wind turbine manufacturers and wider supply chain. Increasing gas infrastructure must be avoided to avert dangerous climate impacts and stranded assets.”. Investing in a renewable future.

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Investors Search for Answers

Chris Hall

Nature is at the base of every supply chain. For now, business understanding and disclosure of nature risk – both from investee firms’ direct operations and along their supply chains – is patchy at best, with firms in the APAC region lagging global peers. Ecosystem services are absolutely critical to the creation of GDP.

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Defining Sustainable Economic Systems – Development vs Growth

Richard Matthews

Sustainable capitalism also invites efforts to reinforce sustainability as a fiduciary issue, create advisory services for sustainable asset management, expand the range and depth of sustainable investment products; reconsider the appropriate definition for growth beyond GDP and integrate sustainability into business education at all levels.