In September 2019 Carbon Tracker’s latest report “Breaking the Habit” was released.

“The most common climate-related question facing investors – “how can we tell if a company is aligned with Paris”?

In this report, we lay out our approach and apply it to the largest listed oil and gas producers. For the first time, we look at alignment in terms of short term actions – which individual projects are non-Paris compliant and wouldn’t go ahead in an economically rational Paris-aligned world, yet nonetheless either a) were sanctioned last year; or b) are targeting sanction this year.More→

The below is an extract of an article by McKinsey.

You can read the entire article at McKinsey’s homepage here.

“The global relevance of New York State’s clean-power targets

In the past year, several US states have announced 100 percent clean-power targets—meaning complete reliance on low-carbon sources such as wind and solar—to be achieved over the next 20 to 30 years. The European Union hopes to go even further: it wants to decarbonize almost its whole economy—not just the power sector—by 2050. Meeting these targets will require extensive efforts across sectors (including power, transportation, industry, and building heating), successful bets on technology, and complex policy changes that incorporate market incentives, costs, customer acceptance, and electrical interconnections with adjacent regions.More→

Quotation from press release by TCFD, June 2019:

“This is the second status report on adoption of the Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) has delivered to the FSB. The Status Report provides an overview of the extent to which companies in their 2018 reports included information aligned with the core TCFD recommendations published in June 2017.More→