Sentences with phrase «growing asset bubbles»

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A small but growing number of countries now have legal requirements for institutional investors to report on how their investment policies and performance are affected by environmental factors, including South Africa and, prospectively, the EU.36 Concern about the risks of a «carbon bubble» — that highly valued fossil fuel assets and investments could be devalued or «stranded» under future, more stringent climate policies — prompted G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in April 2015 to ask the Financial Stability Board in Basel to convene an inquiry into how the financial sector can take account of climate - related issues.37

As long as that's the case, the likely - to - become - insolvent crowd will be able to meet short - term payments, and asset bubbles could continue to grow.

Investors and governments should take note of the growing carbon bubble and work to pull asset prices down with regulation, disinvestment and accurate pollution pricing.

«There is a risk that focusing on «stranded assets» or the concept of the «carbon bubble» distracts attention away for the reality of a growing population, increasing prosperity and growing energy demand.»

And all this brings increasing recognition by investors that the carbon bubble and stranded assets are serious financial risks, which in turn reinforces the growing power of NGO campaigns against coal and CSG along with their fossil fuel divestment campaign.

The opportunity is that it will spur a much - needed capital investment boom in the U.S. and other slow - growing economies; the danger is that it will pump up asset bubbles that eventually burst.