Archive

  • People Moves

    20 May 2016

    The latest people moves from Carbon Tracker, South Pole, UNFCCC and GGGI

  • Oil majors would add value by focussing on low-carbon assets, says CTI

    09 May 2016

    Major oil and gas companies could be worth significantly more by aligning their investment plans with a 2°C climate change target rather than pursuing business as usual, according to the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI).

  • EF BRIEFS: ET Risk, Latvenergo, Morgan Stanley, TerraForm Global, ICO

    06 April 2016

    A coalition of think-tanks, researchers and financial companies will develop a framework to assess the potential financial impacts on securities created by the transition to a lower-carbon economy.

  • Climate disclosure task force urged to recommend 2°C stress test

    10 February 2016

    Fossil fuel companies should stress test their businesses for a future in which global warming is limited to 2°C and disclose the results to investors.

  • Infographic: Stranded assets risk - at a glance

    04 January 2016

    Fossil fuel companies risk wasting up to $2.2 trillion in the next decade, on projects that could be rendered uneconomic by action to curb climate change and advances in clean technologies, says the Carbon Tracker Initiative

  • BlackRock warns on stranded assets

    04 November 2015

    BlackRock has warned that companies with high-cost fossil fuel reserves are at risk of being devalued, adding that "climate change has arrived as an investment issue".

  • Investors urged to question fossil fuel companies' demand assumptions

    22 October 2015

    Coal, oil and gas companies' assumptions about future demand for fossil fuels are inconsistent with decarbonisation plans set out by 150 countries ahead of the forthcoming Paris climate change talks, a think-tank has warned.

  • Insurers demand action on climate change

    01 October 2015

    The leaders of 15 insurance firms have written to the governor of the Bank of England demanding "urgent action" on climate change.

  • Investors with $2.6trn of assets make divestment pledges

    23 September 2015

    Investors with combined assets of $2.6 trillion have made pledges to divest from fossil fuels, according to a new report.

  • California passes bill to force state pension funds to divest from coal

    04 September 2015

    California's two state pension funds, the largest in the US, look increasingly likely to be forced to divest from coal after a bill requiring them to do so was passed by the State Assembly.