All Climate change articles – Page 29
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Thought leadershipTCFD Recommendations: Country reviews
The PRI and Baker McKenzie undertook a review during mid-2017 of how the TCFD’s voluntary recommendations integrate into existing regulation and soft law in Brazil, Canada, the EU, Japan, the United Kingdom and the USA.
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Thought leadership
TCFD Recommendations: Country reviews – European Union
Particularly for asset managers and institutional investors, EU rules will increasingly require entities to assess climate-related risks to assets and businesses, as both financial and non-financial factors.
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TCFD Recommendations: Country reviews – Japan
This review concludes that there is scope for Japan to work towards a stronger disclosure regime, such as that identified by the TCFD under its recommendations.
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TCFD Recommendations: Country reviews – UK
This review concludes that the UK’s existing regulation on disclosure is comprehensive and that (unlike many other developed nations) it integrates, to some extent, sustainability risks into the broader financial risk analysis and disclosure framework.
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TCFD Recommendations: Country reviews – US
This review concludes that consideration and implementation of a structured and detailed framework consistent with the TCFD’s recommendations is likely to assist US companies in understanding the ideal scope of their disclosures and to integrate climate risk awareness into their businesses, and their financial filings.
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TCFD Recommendations: Country reviews – France
The French strategy has been to take small steps to give enough time to all actors to implement climate disclosure.
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News and press
PRI releases briefing document on US regulation and climate change
In a move to bring clarity to proposed changes in the US around policy and regulation issues, the PRI has released a briefing document for both US and global signatories. Since President Trump took office in January this year and began to assemble his administration, the political tide has turned ...
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News and press
Letter from global investors to governments of the G7 and G20 nations
This letter is signed by nearly 400 investors representing more than US$22 trillion in assets.
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Blog post
Climate disclosure – what does this year’s ExxonMobil resolution tell us?
Examining climate disclosure through an in-depth look at the upcoming ExxonMobil climate disclosure resolution.
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Engagement guideAn investor's guide to methane: Engaging with oil and gas companies to manage a rising risk
Methane, the primary component of natural gas, is a climate pollutant 84 times more powerful than carbon dioxide (CO2) over a 20-year period, and it is responsible for 25% of the global warming we are experiencing today.
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Blog post
Long walk to below 2 degrees – reflections on COP22
Canny investors recognise the need to understand climate risk and protect investments.
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Case studyCase study: Fracking practices at oil and gas companies
As part of the PRI Fracking Engagement, a group of PRI investor signatories – led by Martin Currie, a UK-based investment manager – engaged with an Asian oil and gas company.
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Engagement guideEngaging with oil and gas companies on fracking: an investor guide
The production of oil and gas via hydraulic fracturing (fracking) remains important and yet can be viewed as a contentious method in some regions, with community controversies, bans and moratoria in different areas.
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Discussion paperGreening institutional investment
This paper takes stock of institutional investor experience with mobilising green capital for green investment and mainstreaming green factors across asset classes.
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Case studyValuing the impact of increasingly stringent environmental regulation
Case study by Standard Life Investments
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Technical guideA guide on climate change for private equity investors
Questions that LPs can ask their GPs, and that GPs can ask current or potential portfolio companies, to assess climate change impacts on private equity investments.
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Technical guideSustainable real estate investment: Implementing the Paris climate agreement
Identify key drivers and overcome the most common barriers to action for integrating ESG and climate change risks into real estate investments.
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Blog post
Within 2 degrees: Where will the stranded assets be?
A study by Christophe McGlade and Paul Ekins demonstrates that in order to limit global warming to 2oC above pre-industrial levels, a third of oil reserves, half of gas reserves and over 8o% of coal reserves should remain unused until at least 2050.
