Investors 'increasingly' at risk from methane regulation

Companies and their investors are increasingly likely to be exposed to regulation changes as high emitters…

ESG Data,Policy

$2.7trn BlackRock proxy voting move 'game-changing' for industry

BlackRock will offer institutional clients expanded proxy voting options across its index business in…

ESG,ESG Data,Investment,Policy

Exclusive investor reaction to IPCC report: No part of portfolio immune

A landmark report published today by leading climate scientists has been greeted by investors as a chastening…

Policy

Energy feedback loops will make 2020s 'decade of cascading change' - Carbon Tracker

A series of tipping points in energy will shape the 2020s as a "decade of cascading change", according…

Carbon,Stranded Assets

CA100+ benchmark shows net zero ambitions still have long way to go

Carbon,ESG,Investment

Almost all CA100+ power utilities at risk of stranded assets

Most of the world’s largest power utilities that have coal capacity are at risk of making the transition…

Investment,Stranded Assets

ESG data files: part two - non-reported data

What are the uses of, and potential, for non-reported or alternative data sources, asks Peter Cripps

ESG,ESG Data,Investment

Carbon Tracker creates disclosure model for oil & gas

Carbon Tracker Initiative has set out what best-practice climate risk disclosure by upstream oil and…

Stranded Assets

People Moves: BNP Paribas, Boralex, ICG

BNP Paribas Asset Management has hired Carbon Tracker Initiative head of research and managing director…

People

Losing faith in fossil fuels

The Church of Sweden Pension Fund applies strict fossil fuel exclusion criteria to its investments and allows scope for a relatively large tracking error in its pursuit of sustainable returns. Carl Cederberg, the fund's CEO, explains why to Michael Hurley

ESG,Equity,Investment

Peak demand for fossil fuels likely in five years, Carbon Tracker predicts

A likely peak in demand for fossil fuels in 2023 will put trillions of dollars of investments at risk…

Investment,Stranded Assets

LGIM pressures international standards body to adopt TCFD

Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has thrown its weight behind calls for the International…

ESG,Investment,Policy

Shell says it faces 'low risk' of stranded assets

Oil and gas giant Shell said there is "low risk" of it having stranded assets, and predicted as much…

Investment,Stranded Assets

People moves: Carbon Tracker Initiative, CalPERS, PGGM and BMO Global Asset Management

Mark Lewis has left Barclays to become the new head of research and managing director of Carbon Tracker…

People

$1.6 trillion of energy spending is at risk, Carbon Tracker warns

Energy firms risk wasting $1.6 trillion of expenditure by 2025 if they don't align with the Paris climate…

Investment,Stranded Assets

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

The latest climate-related disclosures by oil giant ExxonMobil fail to go far enough in setting out how…

Carbon,Investment,Renewables,Stranded Assets

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

Carbon Tracker Initiative has appointed Hermes Investment Management's chief executive Saker Nusseibeh…

People

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

President Trump's suggestion that the US wants to renegotiate the Paris Agreement, when he announced…

Carbon,Policy

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

With President Trump widely expected to announce the US' withdrawal from the Paris Agreement today, investors…

Carbon,Investment,Policy

NGO launches project to encourage sustainable fish finance

A new project to investigate the role of financial institutions in the global fishing industry, in particular…

ESG,Equity,Investment