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23 articles found
10 August 2023
By Jeffrey Gordon. The efforts to use the tools of corporate governance on climate change risk should shift away from a primary attention on companies that produce and refine fossil fuels to a focus on...
12 July 2023
Green bondholders may either be uninformed or filter out the fact that the mix of green and conventional bonds does not determine the overall environmental impact of the investment. Thus, they willingly pay a...
20 June 2023
By Arjuna Dibley. These firms are often owned by the state because of their significance in strategic sectors. But this geopolitical and economic significance, makes them particularly challenging to...
20 June 2023
By Alperen Gözlügöl & Wolf-Georg Ringe. Climate action creates a new transactional surplus for highly emitting assets to switch owners. Firms and their investors might arrive at different valuations of...
20 June 2023
By Caroline Flammer. While private investments in biodiversity are a useful addition to the toolbox, they are unlikely to provide a silver bullet against the biodiversity crisis
31 May 2023
By Matt Mascardi. As fiduciaries, when the stewards of your capital make a commitment with no track record of success, should you trust them?
30 May 2023
By Esther Choi and Lihuan Zhou. For institutional investors to be attracted to greenfield investment in emerging and developing countries, it’s crucial to mitigate the various existing, perceived, or potential...
29 May 2023
By Christian Leuz. The effectiveness of mandates depends on the accessibility and dissemination of the information and on how much pressure the public can exert on firms to make changes.
2 May 2023
By Kumar Venkat. In practical terms, attributional accounting fails to capture the difference between immediate and additional emission reductions (such as the scope 1 and scope 2 reductions from efficiencies...
25 April 2023
By Robert Eccles & Cynthia Williams. Doing nothing about climate change is not an option that is consistent with board directors’ duties and company operations.
25 April 2023
By Vincent Triesschijn. Selling a high polluting company from a portfolio, for example, may reduce the carbon risk in the portfolio, but it does not necessarily change anything in the real world.
17 April 2023
By Madison Condon. The proliferation of Scope 3 as a blunt metric for all measures of climate progress and transition risk overlooks not only its lack of standardization but also what Scope 3 on its own is...
17 April 2023
By Scott Hirst. The SEC should let companies opt out of all or part of their climate disclosure obligations if sufficient investors have voted to allow it to do so. This “investor-optional” approach would...
17 April 2023
By Virginia Harper Ho. The SEC is charged with maintaining orderly markets, which includes using disclosure to mitigate systemic risk. This responsibility cannot be left to investors.
30 March 2023
By Luca Enriques, Vittoria Battocletti and Alessandro Romano. We argue that policymakers should avoid that certification from leading standard setters are associated with regulatory benefits, as this further...
30 March 2023
By Alexander Lehmann. Companies, in particular those with a capital market presence, will need to explain better how they will deliver on often distant climate targets and define robust incentives and...
30 March 2023
By Dilyara Salakhova. For borrowers, issuance of green bonds can lead to better organised and stronger sustainability processes and reporting within a company, as well as extending their investor base to bond...
13 March 2023
By Aisha Saad. Climate litigation advances the case that climate risks are “mission critical” and that they incur managerial oversight duties.
13 March 2023
By Stavros Gadinis. Entire sectors of the economy will need to reorient themselves toward more sustainable development strategies. But since each company’s contribution to climate change is different,...
9 March 2023
By Dr. Benjamin Franta. Greenwashing may be one of the greatest emerging legal risks across corporate sectors worldwide.
16 February 2023
By Zacharias Sautner.
Regulation may improve liquidity by reducing information asymmetry about firm fundamentals, which should mitigate adverse selection problems and improve liquidity.
16 February 2023
By Steven Bowen.
The transition for the O&G sector is going to be really hard. To give it the best chance of success we need to think like an activist investor or a corporate raider.
16 February 2023
By Daniel Fiorino.
Can the private sector lead the way to a net-zero carbon future? Can it develop the investments, policies, and collaboration that will be necessary in adapting to the manifold impacts of a...