All climate change scenarios articles
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Analysis
IPE ESG Briefing: Net zero ‘an asset owner story’
Plus: Global taskforce launched focused on financial risks posed by social issues; Dutch regulator proposes amendments to ESG reporting templates
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News
Corporate debt could become more attractive than equity under climate scenarios
Prompt and robust abatement action is needed to keep losses below 10%, research by EDHEC Business School shows
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Opinion Pieces
Viewpoint: Climate scenarios – are they overcooked?
The progress made in reining in emissions is not just blah-blah-blah, says Iancu Daramus
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Opinion Pieces
Viewpoint: Investor climate scenarios need to be probability-aware
Riccardo Rebonato, of EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact Institute, argues that climate scenarios need to come with probabilities if they are to be useful for investors
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News
‘Well below 2°C’ Paris Agreement goal will be met, says forecasting consortium
Investors need to appreciate the implications of a major acceleration in climate policy, according to the Inevitable Policy Response
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News
USS and academics develop new approach to climate scenarios
New narrative scenarios are more realistic than mainstream quantitative scenarios, according to new report
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J O Hambro highlights shortcomings of current carbon emissions models
The firm has launched its own proprietary emissions forecasting tool
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TPR calls on trustees to make climate scenario analysis ‘useful’ amid criticism
The criticism presents a ‘timely opportunity to take stock and look ahead’, says TPR
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News
Climate scenario analysis ‘makes fiduciary duty arguments harder’ for net zero investors
IFoA paper says the underwhelming results of climate analysis come from the narrowness of the scenarios being tested
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News
Net-zero asset owner group expands protocol to cover infrastructure
New target-setting framework now also requires at least halving of emissions by 2030
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News
Major investors join Inevitable Policy Response as strategic partners
BlackRock, GSAM, Nuveen and others to support IPR financially and provide input on substance
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Net-zero asset owner group calls for ‘fully developed’ IEA 1.5°C scenario
UN-convened group welcomes recent advancements but calls for further changes to serve ‘pressing needs’
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Danish teachers’ fund kicks off Paris alignment with €80m divestment
Lærernes Pension to sell off DKK600m of stocks as first step after bringing Paris Agreement into ethical code
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News
BP chief economist suggests focus on prices rather than climate scenarios
Spencer Dale floats idea of ‘shortcutting’ use of scenarios and turning straight to price metrics
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News
UK proposes mandatory pension scheme climate risk ‘action’
DWP consults on proposals spanning governance and risk management, and disclosure, with TCFD as key framework
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News
IEA notes sustainable debt issuance, energy investment ‘mismatch’
… as institutional investors renew call for agency to make a 1.5ºC warming scenario central to its influential World Energy Outlook
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Schroders integrates climate change into 30-year returns forecasting
Finding of higher returns for some countries ‘not an endorsement of standing still on policy’
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News
Switzerland’s Publica develops ‘climate efficient’ equity index
Innovative index replaces previous ad hoc, partial approach