In both instances, the study authors say the world will still need
trillions of dollars of investment in fossil fuels to meet its energy needs over the next two decades.
UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon, for instance, told the audience of business and financial elites at this year's World Economic Forum (WEF): «We need
trillions of dollars of investment to move from the brown to the green economy.»
Building sea walls and moving ports and cities on a global scale will do the same this century, even as the sea literally swallows
trillions of dollars of investment in existing infrastructure.
Climate Bonds Initiative's mission is to grow capital into climate solutions by promoting green bonds to investors, primarily pension and insurance funds filled with
trillions of dollars of investment - ready capital.
For the oil and gas industry, it is literally
trillions of dollars of investments they're protecting.
UN climate chief Christiana Figueres called on big firms that manage
trillions of dollars of investments to dump fossil fuel stocks in favor of greener alternatives, arguing that such a shift would help the firms» clients as well as the climate.
Not exact matches
Today, emerging market bonds, according to different groups out there, different major broker dealers, say about three quarters
of emerging market bonds are
investment grade, and the market is about a
trillion and a half
dollars, in terms
of depth and breadth.
«By making it less punitive for companies to bring back this money and making the process far less bureaucratic and difficult, we can return
trillions and
trillions of dollars to the economy and spur billions
of dollars in new
investments in our struggling communities and throughout our nation,» Trump said.
Pomerantz is lead counsel on behalf
of all lending institutions in the United States in a class action arising out
of the LIBOR rate - fixing scandal, which impacted
trillions of dollars in
investments.
While Canada's clean energy
investment fell significantly in 2015, globally a third
of a
trillion dollars was invested in clean energy.
That could mean close to $ 1
trillion dollars of annuity savings lost to Fisher
Investments.
Playing into the tension between (growing) state capitalism and (historically dominant) free market is China's ongoing development
of its own version
of the Marshall Plan — displaying the world's only global economic strategy driven by a
trillion - plus
dollars of investment into international infrastructure.
These paybacks have pushed up the yen's exchange rate by 12 % against the
dollar so far during 2010, prompting Bank
of Japan governor Masaaki Shirakawa to announce on Tuesday, October 5, that Japan had «no choice» but to «spend 5
trillion yen ($ 60 billion) to buy government bonds, corporate IOUs, real - estate
investment trust funds and exchange - traded funds — the latter two a departure from past practice.»
This is now the fastest - growing sector
of the
investment industry, reaching $ 23
trillion globally.6 In the U.S., more than one out
of every five
dollars under professional management is now invested sustainably.7
This
trillion dollar threshold was met, according to the The
Investment Funds Institute
of Canada (IFIC) as
of January 31, 2014, after an increase
of $ 140.1 billion or 16.1 % over the previous 12 months.
And that could mean close to $ 1
trillion dollars of annuity savings [1] lost to Fisher
Investments.
The
investment world is skewed by the latest round
of monetary policy experimentation by the Fed, including years
of artificially low interest rates and
trillions of dollars in «massive asset purchases,» to paraphrase former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.
In short, stock market indices are responsible for driving
trillions of investment dollars.
We conduct
trillions of dollars annually in financial transactions for our customers, including the world's largest banks, broker - dealers,
investment banks, trading firms, hedge funds, governments and
investment firms.
Considering the billions if not
trillions of dollars in oil, cash and
investments, the Saudi political leadership could end poverty in all
of the Mideast but they apparently fear the Wahhabi clerics.
The approach could expand the pool
of money with which to fight climate change from millions or billions
of dollars to
trillions of dollars in consumer
investments in their homes and businesses.
Federal statistics move the U.S. economy, providing data that governments and companies use in deciding how to spend
trillions of dollars in public and private
investments.
Their off - the - books
investment in 12 ships would cost
trillions of dollars and would require training missions that would surely be noticed by the public.
Though the brokerage firm benefits from rising equity indices, higher trading and
investment activity and a strong brokerage franchise that helps in attracting
trillions of client
dollars, Charles Schwab seems to be priced to perfection with a P / B ratio
of 3.60.
And this estimate does not even include the many
trillions of dollars managed by institutional
investment managers outside
of the mutual fund industry, nor the costs associated with brokerage commissions, transactions fees, custody fees, account fees, and other advisory fees.
Back to the point — Billions and even
trillions of dollars of hard - earned money
of the average individual are under management at these large institutional funds and their money is often whipped from one
investment to another with little research or analysis.
There are still
trillions of dollars captured by hedge funds, closet indexing funds, high fee 401K plans and high fee
investment advisors.
This
trillion dollar threshold was met, according to the The
Investment Funds Institute
of Canada (IFIC) as
of January 31, 2014, after an increase
of $ 140.1 billion or 16.1 % over the previous 12 months.
Although Bennett spoke during a workshop titled «Cultural Districts as Engines
of Urban Transformation,» he was there largely to pour cold water on the advisability
of building cultural districts, which are being fueled by a quarter
trillion dollars of investments worldwide.
Reducing fossil fuel use won't «shrink the economy» — quite the opposite — but it will result in the transfer
of trillions of dollars in
investments, capital and profits from the fossil fuel corporations to other sectors
of the industrial economy.
He said that these loans typically leverage 10 or 20 times more public and private
investment, meaning this initiative could shift
trillions of dollars from conventional road - building projects to more sustainable transportation alternatives.
The obstacle is the huge amount
of money the current energy players have:
trillions of dollars in annual revenues, and
trillions of dollars in sunk capital
investments and market valuation that would be lost in a switch.
The negative effects are so great that they justify the
investment of trillions of dollars and / or the diversion and disruption
of industry, farming, transportation and commerce that gives us the quality
of life we enjoy and that is elevating people like the Chinese from rural poverty.
(04/22/2013) The world could be heading for a major economic crisis as stock markets inflate an
investment bubble in fossil fuels to the tune
of trillions of dollars, according to leading economists.
The IEA has estimated that cumulative energy - sector
investment of $ 17
trillion (in 2004
dollars) will be required by 2030 in order to finance its Reference Scenario, and has said that â $ œFinancing the required
investments in non-OECD countries is one
of the biggest sources
of uncertainty surrounding our energy - supply projectionsâ $?
In this scenario, the IEA says that between now and 2030 world energy demand will grow by 1.6 % a year, requiring energy - supply
investments of $ 26.3
trillion (yep TRILLION d
trillion (yep
TRILLION d
TRILLION dollars).
The world could be heading for a major economic crisis as stock markets inflate an
investment bubble in fossil fuels to the tune
of trillions of dollars, according to leading economists.
No matter how much the US and the rest
of the world may desire a move away from those energy sources, the transition to renewable sources — and to no - carbon sources like nuclear power — will take most
of the 21st century and require
trillions of dollars in new
investment.
The structural challenges needing to be overcome are not simple ones, but are
of the sort that have only arisen because
of the very success
of renewables and their more than two
trillion dollars of investment mobilized since 2004.
Developing countries set out
trillion -
dollar investment asks in their submissions to the UN ahead
of a global climate deal to be finalised in Paris this December.
Anand Kumar, the secretary
of India's Ministry for New and Renewable Energy, is quick to point out that the International Solar Alliance — a group
of 44 countries committed to produce 1,000 gigawatts
of solar energy — has promised
investments of 1
trillion dollars by 2030.
Their research is featured prominently in the UNâ $ ™ s Assessment Reports (AR1, AR2, AR3 â $ «and AR4 is the latest) issued by the IPCC that are being used as justification for carbon trading schemes, higher energy taxes, tremendous new government regulation
trillions of dollars in public
investment and even plans for a new world government entity with the authority to supersede the sovereignty
of the United States.
According to the International Energy Agency, some $ 16.9
trillion US
dollars will need to be invested in power generation and transmission to meet growing energy demand by 2035, with renewable energy sources accounting for some 60 %
of these
investments.
According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, new
investment in clean energy globally reached nearly a quarter
of a
trillion dollars in 2010.
He argues that climate finance could act as a catalyst for
trillions of dollars of low - carbon
investment — read more in this article in Business Green
L&A insurers have
trillions of dollars worth
of investments that may be affected by climate change.
The agreement calls for shifting
trillions of investment dollars toward low - emission, climate - resilient development.
These outfits include banks, oil and energy companies and
investment funds heavily involved in «carbon trading» and «sustainable technologies», which together make up the fastest - growing commodity market in the world, estimated soon to be worth
trillions of dollars a year.
For the past 18 months, Dr. Steve Waygood
of Aviva Investors has led a Corporate Sustainability Reporting Coalition (CSRC) representing companies with
investment power
of 50
trillion US
dollars, whose goal was to include a paragraph in the official Rio +20 outcome document mentioning the importance
of sustainability reporting to encourage a change in the way companies see sustainable development inside their operations.
Governments must begin to shift
trillions of dollars in
investment from polluting infrastructure to low - emission, climate - resilient activities — a massive financial shift from «brown'to «green» — to stay within climate limits.