Sentences with phrase «of carbon assets»

Blockchain could be used to facilitate trading of carbon assets.

According to report by the non-profit Carbon Tracker Initiative, up to 80 percent of carbon assets could become unburnable.

Digital collaboration across organizations combined with smart contracts will be designed to greatly improve efficiency of carbon assets development and management.

At a recent investment conference sponsored by Royal Bank and Suncor I spoke about the likelihood that billions of dollars of carbon assets will never see the light of day.

We're going to extract every last drop and burn every last drop,»» said Andy Behar, president of California - based As You Sow, an advocacy group and co-sponsor of the carbon asset risk resolution.

Unfortunately, that's a distinction that some other supporters of the carbon asset bubble meme don't seem to make, particularly with regard to oil and natural gas.

While North America's largest oil and gas company did announce for the first time that climate change is a reality, the company does not mention the potential risks of a carbon asset bubble.

Not exact matches

Carbon Tracker, the analyst house which pioneered the stranded asset or «carbon bubble» theory, has warned a quarter of global oil refining capacity could become unviable and be forced to shut down within 20 years due to falling demand.

My two cents: carbon assets are going to be left in the ground for a variety of reasons, not least of which is emission constraints (that I think is the least of the reasons given the power of corporations and financiers over government).

It is time for asset managers to take their lead from those progressive firms and investors who are embracing the low carbon transition, and prepare themselves for a future of greener investment patterns.

The development of this new global asset class is an opportunity to advance a low carbon future...».

The Carbon Tracker Initiative, a nonprofit organization that studies carbon budgets, has warned that the remaining vast reserves of unburnable carbon will become stranded assets.

Whenever capital assets reach the end of their productive lives, they should be replaced with energy efficient and low - carbon alternatives wherever possible and prudent.

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

Moreover, Exxon Mobil expressed confidence that its oil and gas assets were unlikely to become stranded even under much tighter regulation of carbon emissions because the fossil fuels would be needed to grow the world's economies.

It would have to reduce the risks of high - carbon assets while simultaneously scaling up capital for the low - carbon transition.

One step would be stress testing, engaging pension funds and companies to examine if they hold carbon - intensive assets on their books, said Martin Skancke, who spoke on the first panel and is chairman of the Advisory Council of Principles for Responsible Investing, a U.N. - supported initiative that has helped formulate a widely followed voluntary protocol of responsible investment criteria.

It also allows for a smoother reallocation of investment away from high - carbon towards low - carbon technologies and infrastructure, avoiding the risk of stranded assets and economic disruption.

Furthermore, there is a guaranteed market for PRISM's low - carbon by - product — electricity — which eliminates the need to sell a fuel product and turns the UK's stores of plutonium into an economic asset.

He was way ahead of the game before the more recent pronouncements of unburnable carbon and «stranded assets ``.

It says investors that currently have high exposure to high - carbon assets are at risk of possessing «stranded assets» — a term used to describe financially worthless investment stocks.

In his new film, Downsizing, he presents an intriguing solution to climate change and the world's population crisis, imagining an alternate reality where people have the opportunity to literally shrink themselves thus increasing the value of their assets and dramatically reducing their carbon footprint.

Acer can also assist schools in reducing the carbon footprint by providing an e-waste and asset re-use service across a range of commodity types, including mobility style devices such as laptops and desktop monitors, to name a few.

Another set of carbon fiber assets completes two - tone leather upholstery.

As a result, public pension sponsors and other asset owners are facing a surge of mandates to use their investing heft to achieve social goals such as reducing the carbon footprint, improving gender diversity, and so on.

However, carbon monoxide detection, fire alarms, the ability to turn your lights on and off, knowing when your kids come home when you're at work — all of these monitoring services are attractive to consumers who want to protect their assets and have peace of mind.

Even if it was a carbon copy of what he did with just the assets changed, any company is within their rights to do so so long as they don't use copyrighted code.

Adopt a goal of requiring, or persuading, fossil fuel companies to disclose in their 10Ks and other filings the amount of carbon held for ultimate release on the asset side of their balance sheets, and the range of possible outcomes to their business if some of those assets are stranded.

Firms want a fair degree of price certainty in long - term investment decisions, and the allocation of carbon - based assets (like permits) make a reduction of permits in circulation in response to reductions in scientific uncertainty somewhat problematic.

Even a wedge of natural gas has some value in this view, since it displaces a huge volume of long - lived coal generation assets, which increases the odds that zero carbon sources will be able to muscle in later.

He just filed a piece on a German economist's conclusion that the lost assets when forests are destroyed — water cleansing, carbon holding, etc. — dwarf the global financial losses of late.

Unless we brake hard, not on emissions, but on the creation of carbon - based assets, then we'll end up in a situation where SecularA's solution, trash - compacting much of our civilization, will become necessary.

If there's going to be a market for carbon, then the market's going to have to have confidence that what an investor is buying is actually a real asset, and that the carbon is being sequestered in a stand of forest.

Formed in 2008 by CE2 Capital Partners and Energy Capital Partners, CE2 Carbon Capital, LLC is a company dedicated to building a portfolio of carbon offsets and other assets focused on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in North America.

By «this asset» Governor Malloy refers to Millstone Nuclear Power Plant, which provides 96 percent of Connecticut's zero - carbon electricity.

And Palo Alto has been able to achieve carbon neutrality in large part because it has a set of assets and attributes that most other cities lack.

This paper is designed to assist the TCFD members in assessing the «carbon bubble» concept and «stranded asset» risks inherent in the business - as - usual strategies of many fossil fuel companies.

Properly set up, this system might represent a viable hedge: a mix of fossil carbon in the ground, and land for «green» energy could protect asset values and corporate survival.

In the case of fossil fuels, the carbon bubble effect due to stranded assets has motivated some divestment activity, in addition to the ethical / survival concerns over increasingly serious climate impacts due to fossil fuels consumption.

HERE is one Ceres investor statement by 190 real - money investors with more than US$ 13 trillion of assets: «On 14 January 2010 the world's largest investors released a statement calling on the U.S. and other governments to quickly adopt strong national climate policies that will establish a stable investment climate and thus spur low - carbon investments to reduce emissions causing climate change.»

Developing and implementing these strategies ensures alignment with the long - term goals of the Paris Agreement, in a way that fosters increased prosperity for citizens, reduces the risk of locking - in unsustainable and high - emission infrastructure, and will help to avoid stranded high - carbon assets.

Once the financial impact of stranded assets are factored in, the carbon bubble will collapse with large financial consequences for fossil fuel companies and their owners.

Even the threat of impending regulation creates uncertainty for long - lived carbon - intensive assets.

Furthermore, the overlay analyses of existing land designations and biomass carbon highlight the need for the effective and sustainable management of designated areas in order to reduce environmental harm and secure the valuable assets they contain.

This hedging strategy will buffer the impact an extreme carbon risk event might have on a portfolio while potentially capturing the upside of the transition away from fossil fuel assets.

So the darker hopes arise — maybe a particularly furious El Niño or a «carbon bubble» where the financial markets realize that renewables have become more scalable and economical, leading to a run on fossil - fuel assets and a «generational crash» of the global economy that, through great suffering, buys us more time and forces change.

The combination of needing to limit carbon dioxide emissions and having fossil fuel companies that are valued by their proven reserves is what Carbon Tracker, a non-profit organization, is calling the «Carbon Bubble» in their new report, «Unburnable carbon 2013: Wasted capital and stranded assets.»

This can be achieved by, for example, considering the key drivers of a company's current and future asset base in the context of carbon risks and developing tools that quantify risks for valuations.

It then outlines some of the support programmes available for CDM projects in Africa, including: the UNFCCC loan scheme for countries with fewer than ten registered projects; the Africa Carbon Asset Development initiative; the Carbon Fund for Africa; the African Biofuels and Renewable Energy Fund; the UN Development Programme (UNDP)'s Millennium Development Goals Carbon Facility; various World Bank carbon funds and initiatives; and various national programmes for the purchase of Certified Emission Reductions, such as Germany's KfW Carbon Fund.

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