The Holy Grail in the quest to tackle climate change, within the confines of the existing economic paradigm, is to place a price on carbon. In...
The divestment movement has been gathering pace like wildfire over the last few years with over 400 institutions globally now committed to divesting from fossil fuels....
As we discussed in the previous post, in concrete terms greenhouse emissions represent the physical source of the climate change problem. Sam Gill, CEO of ET...
Having established in previous posts what is at stake with climate change, it ought to be clear to anyone that we need to limit greenhouse gas...
As we have examined in the two previous blog posts, there is a subtle – although very much related – difference between financial ‘carbon risk’ and...
If ‘climate risk’ is the probability of climate catastrophe occurring then ‘carbon risk’ is the probability that investments in high carbon companies and assets will lose...
I was at an event recently where the ‘point person for carbon’ from a well-known bank told me 10 degrees of warming was not such a...
My name is Sam Gill, CEO of ET Index, a company focused on advancing Environmental Tracking – a stock market incentive mechanism designed to bring about...
2014 saw carbon risk move ever higher up the agenda for investors with the launch of the Montreal Pledge by the United Nations backed Principles for...