Timmermans: ‘we can’t solve energy crisis at expense of climate crisis’
The European green Deal vice-president was one of a number of speakers at PRI conference to highlight the need to end new fossil fuel investments.
Paris Alignment
Birol: 1.5 degrees target ‘is not dead’
The International Energy Agency’s executive director stresses at the UN PRI conference that the Paris Agreement is not impossible to achieve.
COP27: MDBs welcome call to scale up climate funding
Multilateral Development Banks react to the final COP27 text, which called on them to scale up climate financing and reform their “practices and priorities”.
Beyond net zero: the goal of climate positivity
As a new investor alliance targets climate positivity, Atharva Deshmukh examines this concept and discusses what will be required to achieve it.
COP27: where carbon markets go from here
What can be done to increase participation in carbon markets and help improve the quality of carbon credits?
COP27: how is Article 6 helping countries adapt to climate change?
Countries must agree on the development of carbon markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, says 7IM investment manager.
COP27: A chance to overcome the shortcomings of Glasgow?
Environmental and investor attention turns to Egypt, but the failures of last year’s COP26 still linger.
$39trn coalition urges ‘more ambitious’ climate action pre-COP27
More than 500 institutional investors have agreed a statement calling for government action ahead of COP27.
S&P unveils net-zero index range
New indices are based on 2021 report from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Losses from fossil fuel stranded assets ‘could reach $30.6tn’
MIT research shows the estimated asset loss for investors under four net-zero scenarios depending on the global climate policy adopted.
Where climate change scenario planning sits in investment
Many of the world’s major economies are working towards a 1.5°C Paris Agreement-aligned future, but investors must prepare portfolios for the climate change outcome – whatever this ends up being.
Net Zero Investor: Greenwashing
A discussion of greenwashing with Lucie Pinson of Reclaim Finance and Dr. Cary Krosinsky
Research suggests transitions in Africa could cost $2.8tn
Research and advocacy organisation Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) has published research which suggests that for African countries, the cost of implementing...