Renewables and transition funds return more than 100% in 2020

Renewable energy funds enjoyed spectacularly strong growth in 2020, with several basking in returns of…

Equity,Renewables,Stranded Assets

Global banks supply $800m a day to plastics supply chain

The amount of money that banks have pumped into the global plastics supply chain has been tracked in…

Debt,Natural Capital,Stranded Assets

Oil and gas majors release joint transition principles

Eight energy companies - BP, Eni, Equinor, Galp, Occidental, Repsol, Royal Dutch Shell and Total - have…

Carbon,Stranded Assets

Axa IM ditches State Bank of India green bonds amid Carmichael coal furore

Green Bonds,Stranded Assets

Net Zero Asset Alliance paper maps out Paris Alignment for high‐emitting sectors

The Net Zero Asset Alliance in conjunction with the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) has published…

Carbon,COP,Stranded Assets

NY State Pension Fund to divest from 'risky' oil and gas companies

The $226 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund is moving to divest from the 'riskiest' oil and…

Investment,Stranded Assets

In conversation with Insure our Future's Peter Bosshard

The coordinator of the campaign group Insure our Future (formerly Unfriend Coal), Peter Bosshard, looks at progress made in 2020 and highlights the roadmap for 2021. Interview by Vincent Huck

Insurance,Stranded Assets

Coal, Covid-19 and the rise of renewables

The pandemic has given a boost to the energy transition, and it is unlikely that this trend will drop off as we move to a recovery, amid the realisation that renewables are much cheaper than 'dirty' energy sources, says Paul Flood

Renewables,Stranded Assets

A call for transparency in climate risk analysis

Collaboration and a move away from black box methodologies are needed if investors are to have the right tools to manage climate risks, argues Stephen Fitzpatrick

Stranded Assets

Time is ripe for US asset managers to engage oil majors

Domestic asset managers have been largely absent from climate engagement with US oil majors, but the Church Commissioners for England tells Ahren Lester that this could finally be changing.

Carbon,Equity,Policy,Stranded Assets