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Climate risk could undermine investments, report warns
2015-11-12 17:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: A report has warned that investors could be hit hard amid changes in short-term market swings, triggered by climate impact concerns. University of Cambridge experts said global investment portfolios could see losses of up to 45%. No investor was "immune from the risks posed by climate change", they added. In a recent speech to the City, Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said climate change would "threaten financial resilience". The report, Unhedgeable Risk: How Climate Change Sentiment...
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Peabody strikes deal New York attorney general climate risk filings
2015-11-12 13:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Coal giant Peabody Energy has agreed to change the way it reports the risks posed to investors by climate change, ending an eight-year investigation by the New York attorney general. Peabody and attorney general Eric Schneiderman confirmed they had reached an agreement on Monday, after the company was accused of issuing misleading statements on the risks it could face from tightening climate change laws. Previously, Peabody has argued that it was unable to predict the impacts of future policy...
Utility Wildfire Risk Management
2015-11-10 17:47:00| Transmission & Distribution World
The last two articles have been about power line initiated wildfires and this article will build further on that topic, specifically with a focus on risk management. read more
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One of the Worlds Largest Coal Companies Misled Investors About Climate Change Risk
2015-11-10 15:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsweek: Just days after President Barack Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, environmentalists were handed another victory Monday morning when New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman released the results of an investigation that found one of the world's largest coal companies had misled the public and its shareholders about the risks climate change could pose to its bottom line. After several years of investigations, Schneiderman reached an agreement with Peabody Energy that won't require...
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One of the worlds largest coal companies misled investors about climate change risk
2015-11-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: Climate change could pose a serious risk to investors in publicly-traded fossil fuel companies, as governments around the world move to restrict carbon emissions. Many climate change advocacy groups say those companies have an obligation to their shareholders to be transparent about how demand for their product could diminish in the near future. Although Peabody escaped financial penalties this time around, it could still face litigation from aggrieved shareholders. According to Schneiderman's...
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