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The UN-backed climate investors’ group that invested in... fossil fuels
Fact check: In December 2020, a group of big players in international finance launched the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative. They committed their firms to “supporting the goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or earlier, in line with global efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C”. They planned to do this by directing investments toward sustainable businesses that are helping to cut the emissions responsible for the climate crisis.
Eating the frog: how central banks can swallow stranded fossil fuel assets
The climate emergency requires central banks, along with many other actors, to adopt new methods. Central banks can be important partners in working out solutions to environmental problems. It could also be argued that, at times, central banks should not be limited to following what elected governments decide because elected governments too often do not plan for the long term, only for the next election as ex-Bank of England governor Mark Carney emphasized in his “tragedy of the horizon” speech.
Eating the frog: how central banks can swallow stranded fossil fuel assets
Central banks can be important partners in working out solutions to environmental problems. It could also be argued that, at times, central banks should not be limited to following what elected governments decide because elected governments too often do not plan for the long term, only for the next election as ex-Bank of England governor Mark Carney emphasised in his “tragedy of the horizon” speech. The challenge is to find mechanisms that allow central banks to act with the long term in mind.
Why defusing ‘carbon bombs’ offers a promising new agenda for tackling climate change
Words by Kjell Kühne September 8, 2022 Energy Environment Society Academics have identified hundreds of fossil fuel projects that will blow the world’s carbon budget. In doing so they have opened a new line of climate action, argues lead researcher Kjell Kühne A carbon bomb is a fossil fuel extraction project, such as a coal mine, that can cause over a gigatonne of CO2 emissions during its lifetime. That’s a billion tonnes – more than twice the UK’s annual emissions from a single project.
Why defusing 'carbon bombs' offers a promising new agenda for tackling climate change Original
A carbon bomb is a fossil fuel extraction project, such as a coal mine, that can cause over a metric gigaton of CO₂ emissions during its lifetime. That's a billion tons—more than twice the UK's annual emissions from a single project. In our latest research, my colleagues and I found that there are 425 of these carbon bombs worldwide.
Why defusing 'carbon bombs' offers a promising new agenda for tackling climate change
A carbon bomb is a fossil fuel extraction project, such as a coal mine, that can cause over a gigatonne of CO₂ emissions during its lifetime. That’s a billion tonnes – more than twice the UK’s annual emissions from a single project. In our latest research, my colleagues and I found that there are 425 of these carbon bombs worldwide.
OUR BURNING PLANET OP-ED: Step Off the Gas: Access to renewable energy in Global South starting to eclipse fossil fuel legitimacy
(Photo: Unsplash / Chris Leboutilier) The Step Off the Gas report examines international public finance for natural gas expansion in the Global South and the choices countries face in how to develop their energy systems while meeting socioeconomic needs. The report assesses economic and environmental risks from gas development, the status of alternatives to gas, and how to overcome challenges for the South in developing clean energy.
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