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  • First State sets up 'stranded assets' working group

    27 March 2014

    Asset manager First State has set up a working group to explore the dangers that 'stranded carbon assets' pose to its investment portfolio.

  • Exxon Mobil to report on 'stranded assets' risk

    21 March 2014

    Energy giant Exxon Mobil has bowed to shareholder pressure to report on how it assesses the risk of its fossil fuel reserves becoming 'stranded assets' as a result of action to combat climate change.

  • BP enters debate on unburnable carbon

    20 March 2014

    BP has weighed into the debate on stranded assets, acknowledging the concept of a carbon budget, but effectively shrugging off warnings over stranded assets.

  • Where will the trail lead next for Carbon Tracker?

    28 February 2014

    In little more than two years since the publication of its pioneering research, the Carbon Tracker Initiative has got the financial world talking about 'unburnable carbon' and 'stranded assets'. Its new CEO Anthony Hobley reveals what's next from the influential think-tank

  • Low fossil fuel strategies perform in line with benchmark – MSCI

    31 January 2014

    Three strategies designed to allow investors to allay concerns about 'stranded assets' by reducing their exposure to fossil fuels have performed roughly in-line with a global benchmark index in recent years.

  • $1.8bn coalition to divest from fossil fuels, reinvest in clean-tech

    31 January 2014

    A coalition of philanthropic funds managing a combined $1.8 billion of assets committed to divest from fossil fuels and increase investments in "the clean energy economy", in the latest sign that the stranded assets movement is gaining momentum.

  • Robins to leave HSBC to spearhead UNEP Inquiry

    28 January 2014

    Nick Robins is to step down as head of HSBC's Climate Change Centre to help lead a United Nations Environment Programme inquiry into how to green the world's economy.

  • Storebrand ditches palm oil companies

    22 January 2014

    Norwegian financial services firm Storebrand has excluded 11 palm oil plantation owners from all portfolios to reduce its exposure to climate change risks.

  • Stranded assets: big four UK miners could see $20bn hit to coal assets - HSBC

    21 January 2014

    The big four UK-listed miners could see more than $20 billion wiped from the value of their coal assets in a low-carbon scenario, analysts at HSBC have calculated.

  • Q&A: Marcel Jeucken, managing director of responsible investment at PGGM Investments

    21 January 2014