Sustainable Investor
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Investors Spend US$1.3m to Assess Firms’ Climate Risks
Institutional investors typically spend US$1,372,000 annually to collect, analyse and report climate data to inform their investment decisions, according to a new...
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IEA Urges ASEAN Countries to Accelerate Transition to Net Zero
The ten member economies of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) continued reliance on fossil fuels is proving to be a...
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Americas
Californian Pension Funds Face Forced Divestment of Fossil Fuel Holdings
Transaction and opportunity costs from California State Bill misrepresented by CalPERS and CalSTRS, says campaign group.
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Industry
IPCC Strengthens Investment Case for Carbon Capture
Demand for DACCS to increase as role of carbon removal increases in climate mitigation scenarios, but scalability concerns continue.
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Investors Call on Firms to Support Human Rights in Ukraine
Companies should take “immediate steps” to align their operations with international frameworks to protect human rights in response to Russia’s invasion of...
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UK Asset Manager Says it Cannot Back Shell Transition Plan
Royal London Asset Management will abstain from voting on Shell’s climate transition plan at the energy firm’s AGM, despite acknowledging “considerable progress”....
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UK to Consult on Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
The UK government will consult this year on the possible introduction of a carbon border adjustment mechanism to prevent carbon leakage, ie...
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Near-term Economic Impacts of Climate Change “Harder to Ignore”
The UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative and UK-based think tank National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) have published a report...
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Sharma Calls for Increased Determination on COP26 Commitments
COP President Alok Sharma will tell world leaders that “current crises should increase, not diminish, our determination” to honour commitments made at...
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2022 Sustainable Bond Issuance Could Stall – Moody’s
Sustainable bond issuance may only repeat last year’s US$1 trillion volumes in 2022, after market headwinds suppressed Q1 activity. According to Moody’s,...
