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COP blog: investors raise their voices on climate change
23 November 2015With so much time and energy focused on COP21, stakeholders might be forgiven for thinking that Paris is the endgame.
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IIGCC demands policymakers tighten emissions testing after VW losses
06 November 2015The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) has demanded that regulators to strengthen automotive emissions-testing standards after its members "lost significant investment value" in the aftermath of the Volkswagen scandal.
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INDCs can limit global warming to 2.7°C, says UN's Figueres
30 October 2015Investors have welcomed research suggesting that the national pledges made ahead of the Paris climate summit have the potential to limit global warming to 2.7°C.
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Can Paris deliver a meaningful climate deal?
07 October 2015Attempts to build a global agreement from a series of national pledges will help industry and financiers plan low-carbon investments beyond 2020, even if they don't restrict global warming to 2°C, says Graham Cooper
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Insurers demand action on climate change
01 October 2015The leaders of 15 insurance firms have written to the governor of the Bank of England demanding "urgent action" on climate change.
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Investor-led project to create energy productivity index
22 September 2015The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) has joined an investor-led initiative to launch what it believes to be the world's first "global energy productivity benchmark for listed industrial companies".
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IEA calls for spending on renewables to increase to $400bn
15 June 2015Annual investment in renewable energy needs to increase to $400 billion by 2030 or the chance to avert catastrophic climate change will be "missed forever", the international Energy Agency (IEA) has warned.
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Investors managing $12trn call for long-term emissions reduction goal
26 May 2015Investors managing $12 trillion of assets have urged G7 finance ministers to back a long-term emissions reduction plan, to help limit the average global temperature increase to 2⁰C above pre-industrial levels.
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People moves
22 May 2015Recent appointments in the environmental finance space, including Alexandra Ergon at Calvert, Nikolas Novograd at RET Capital and Mamadou-Abou Sarr at PRI
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Investors launch platform to showcase their climate change initiatives
20 May 2015A group of institutional investors, managing some $25 trillion, have launched an online platform to highlight the actions they are taking to curb climate change.