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  • Exxon takes encouraging disclosure steps but must go further, investors say

    08 February 2018

    The latest climate-related disclosures by oil giant ExxonMobil fail to go far enough in setting out how climate change is likely to impact its business, say an influential group of investors that led last year's successful shareholder resolution against the company.

  • People moves: Carbon Tracker, Allianz, WWF, Sustineri, BMO

    01 December 2017

    Carbon Tracker Initiative has appointed Hermes Investment Management's chief executive Saker Nusseibeh as non-executive chairman.

  • Trump plan to renegotiate Paris dismissed as 'smoke and mirrors'

    02 June 2017

    President Trump's suggestion that the US wants to renegotiate the Paris Agreement, when he announced the country's withdrawal from it, has been dismissed as smoke and mirrors by one industry analyst.

  • US withdrawal from Paris Agreement 'an irrelevance', say investors

    01 June 2017

    With President Trump widely expected to announce the US' withdrawal from the Paris Agreement today, investors are sceptical over its implications on global climate action with one branding it an 'irrelevance'.

  • Mapping the finance for Paris

    16 May 2017

    Ian Callaghan and Tessa Tennant examine who is doing what to help finance the commitments made as part of the Paris Agreement on climate change.

  • NGO launches project to encourage sustainable fish finance

    13 March 2017

    A new project to investigate the role of financial institutions in the global fishing industry, in particular the exploitation of wild fish stocks, is being planned by the NGO behind the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI).

  • Energy companies 'underestimate' low-carbon potential

    03 February 2017

    Energy companies are underestimating the growth of solar photovoltaic (PV) and electronic vehicles in their market outlooks, according to a report.

  • Paris Agreement comes into force

    04 November 2016

    Investors and businesses had a renewed impetus to embrace the emerging low-carbon economy today, as the Paris Agreement to limit global warming at 2°C officially came into force.

  • Investors warned to challenge power plant cost assumptions

    14 September 2016

    Investors should question outdated assumptions about technology costs, load factors and lifetimes for new coal and gas plants, says the Carbon Tracker Initiative.

  • Carbon Tracker publishes investor checklist for engaging fossil fuel companies

    22 July 2016

    UK-based NGO Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI) has published a report with a three-point check list for investors who want to engage with fossil fuel companies.