The Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) assessed 332 companies on their 'Management Quality' and 238 companies on their 'Carbon Performance' in transitioning to a low-carbon economy.
For Management Quality, nearly 40% of companies are still unprepared for the transition, scoring in the lowest two levels. While the average score has improved slightly, more strategic practices like incorporating climate risks into strategy and executive pay are still lacking in many companies. Few companies ensure consistency between their climate policies and trade association lobbying positions.
For Carbon Performance, over 80% of companies remain off track for limiting warming to 2°C, based on benchmarks aligned with international climate targets. Only 31% of companies will meet a benchmark reflecting
Global Capital Confidence Barometer | In an age of M&A complexity, do you pau...EY
The Global Capital Confidence Barometer gauges corporate confidence in the economic and M&A outlook, and identifies boardroom trends and practices in the way companies manage their Capital Agendas — EY framework for strategically managing capital. It is a regular survey of senior executives from large companies around the world, conducted by Euromoney Institutional Investor Thought Leadership (EIITL). Our panel comprises select global EY clients and contacts and regular EIITL contributors.
Regenerating this generation’s view of oil and gasEY
To better understand the differences between reality and perception around oil and gas, EY conducted a nationwide poll of more than 1,200 consumers and 100 industry executives in the US. In part, the study looked at how consumer views of oil and gas – across several generations – impacts their interest in working in the oil and gas industry.
This document brings together a set of latest data points and publicly available information relevant for Resources Industry. We are very excited to share this content and believe that readers will benefit from this periodic publication immensely.
Global Capital Confidence Barometer | In an age of M&A complexity, do you pau...EY
The Global Capital Confidence Barometer gauges corporate confidence in the economic and M&A outlook, and identifies boardroom trends and practices in the way companies manage their Capital Agendas — EY framework for strategically managing capital. It is a regular survey of senior executives from large companies around the world, conducted by Euromoney Institutional Investor Thought Leadership (EIITL). Our panel comprises select global EY clients and contacts and regular EIITL contributors.
Regenerating this generation’s view of oil and gasEY
To better understand the differences between reality and perception around oil and gas, EY conducted a nationwide poll of more than 1,200 consumers and 100 industry executives in the US. In part, the study looked at how consumer views of oil and gas – across several generations – impacts their interest in working in the oil and gas industry.
This document brings together a set of latest data points and publicly available information relevant for Resources Industry. We are very excited to share this content and believe that readers will benefit from this periodic publication immensely.
Climate risk disclosure: What are the financial and asset impacts of physical...Briony Turner
This presentation was given as part of Futurebuild 2020 | 4 March | Session: How do we achieve '100% net zero carbon'? You will need to download it to use the hyperlinks.
Find out more about the recommendations arising from my PhD in this LinkedIn post: Stepping out -recommendations for mainstreaming climate change adaptation of England's social housing stock: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stepping-out-recommendations-mainstreaming-climate-change-turner/
Interesting and concerning to see a leading company involved in the supply chain of one of the least efficient sources of fossil fuels listed as a climate leader. Does (or should this) signal a concern for those relying on CDP data and rankings for thier investment decisions?
Searching for a new mission to work on, I analyzed in Internet how to get in contact which industrial companies which got strong compromise with our future. Not so easy :-)
Hereby I share you from CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project) the "A-List" Report End 2014 ("A" like we all now from energy efficiency labels). Herein you will find 767 companies with clear sustainable strategies. And at the end of the report the black sheeps which did not contribute transparency dates to CDP for the Climate Performance Leadership Index (CPLI).
Interesting, too...all these companies performed in sum better than reference index values on stock exchange. see for details the added report
What is the global reporting initiative?dean771100
What is the Global Reporting Initiative?
The GRI is a global standard for sustainability reporting designed by organizations and investors to measure business performance. The GRI has been adopted as a requirement by leading institutional investors, government regulators and development organizations around the world. It sets out a universal framework for sustainability reporting based on the shared understanding that such information can provide new insights into how companies operate and their contribution to sustainable development.
El nuevo informe del CDP revela que las empresas líderes en gestión del cambio climático (rendimiento y divulgación) han generado una mayor rentabilidad (ROE) en los últimos tres años.
Carrots Sticks Global trends in sustainability reporting regulation and polic...Lausanne Montreux Congress
Last year, 2015, was a milestone for sustainability with
crucial and unprecedented agreements by the international
community, including the Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs)1 and the Paris Agreement on climate change action.
The year 2016 now calls for translating these achievements
into action to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development.
1- Introduce your environmental issue and your purpose of analysis.docxmonicafrancis71118
1- Introduce your environmental issue and your purpose of analysis of the impacts the issue has created and what is being done to help this issue (solutions).
2- Develop a background paragraph of the issue - the history of its development, its current situation, and its size and scope.
3- Develop a paragraph for each impact this environmental issue has on the world, explaining the impact and providing evidence of this impact from sources. (3 parghs)
4- Develop an analysis paragraph for each solution that is being used or developed – explaining the solution clearly, and discussing how this will impact the problem, discussing the impact and limitations of the solution.
5- Develop a clear conclusion summarizing your analysis process and insights gleaned from your analysis.
Reporting on long-term value creation by Canadian companies: A
longitudinal assessment
Petra F.A. Dilling a, *, Peter Harris b
a School of Management, New York Institute of Technology, 701 W Georgia St., Vancouver, BC V7Y 1K8, Canada
b School of Management, New York Institute of Technology, 26West 61st Street, New York, NY, NY 10023, USA
a r t i c l e i n f o
Article history:
Received 30 August 2017
Received in revised form
21 January 2018
Accepted 27 March 2018
Available online 27 April 2018
Keywords:
Long-term value creation
Integrated reporting
Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
Canadian extractive sector
Sustainability
Stakeholders
a b s t r a c t
In the wake of the global financial crisis, a new wave of stakeholder demands has developed calling on
companies to shift focus towards long-term value creation and moving away from a short-term earnings
emphasis. Aligned with these demands, urgent calls for more transparency and improved reporting on
both financial as well as non-financial reports have been made. The objective of this study was to analyze
longitudinal disclosure quality and quantity trends in reporting on long-term value creation of 19
publicly traded Canadian energy and mining companies. Content analysis was conducted in order to
assess disclosure on long-term value creation in annual financial and sustainability reports. The empirical
results show that the companies experienced a substantial increase in the reporting disclosure quality
and quantity. This was true for both disclosure in the annual financial reports as well as in the sus-
tainability reports. These results supported the hypotheses that Canadian public energy and mining
companies had increased their quantity and quality of long-term value creation disclosure in 2014 as
compared to 2012. Even though increases in disclosure quality could be observed (especially in the areas
of governance, responsible work practices, outside relationships and risk management), overall disclo-
sure quality (especially in areas such as connectivity between financials and sustainability sections,
materiality analysis, projects with high climate risk exposure, cost of energy, responsible work practices,
ince.
Presentation delivered at the Women in Finance Conference, South Africa.
The presentation deals with Integrated Sustainability Reporting, South Africa, 2010.
Raportul PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) cu tendinte si recomandari referitoare la modul in care companiile isi raporteaza performantele de sustenabilitate
this issue.
Climate Governance Initiative Australia
The AICD is the host of the Climate Governance
Initiative Australia which assists in supporting
our members in meeting the challenges and
opportunities of governing climate change risk.
As host of the Australian Chapter of the Climate
Governance Initiative, our members have
access to a global network of experts in risk
and resilience and to non-executive directors
who are leading their organisations’ governance
response to climate change.
The Climate Governance Initiative (CGI) is an
active and rapidly expanding network of over
20 bodies globally, whose Chapters promote the
World Economic Forum Climate Governance
Principles for boards and effective climate
governance within their jurisdictions. The
principles are set out in Appendix 2 of this guide.
The principles support directors to gain
awareness, embed climate considerations into
board decision making, and understand and act
upon the risks and opportunities that climate
change poses to their organisations.
CGI chapters have already been established
in many comparable countries, including the
UK, US (hosted by the National Association of
Corporate Directors), Canada (hosted by the
Institute of Corporate Directors) and France.
Australian Bushfire
and Climate Plan
Final report of the National Bushfire and Climate Summit 2020
The severity and scale of Australian bushfires
is escalating
Australia’s Black Summer fires over 2019 and 2020
were unprecedented in scale and levels of destruction.
Fuelled by climate change, the hottest and driest year
ever recorded resulted in fires that burned through land
two-and-a-half times the size of Tasmania (more than 17
million hectares), killed more than a billion animals, and
affected nearly 80 percent of Australians. This included
the tragic loss of over 450 lives from the fires and
smoke, more than 3,000 homes were destroyed, and
thousands of other buildings.
While unprecedented, this tragedy was not
unforeseen, nor unexpected. For decades climate
scientists have warned of an increase in climaterelated disasters, including longer and more
dangerous bushfire seasons, which have become
directly observable over the last 20 years. Extremely
hot, dry conditions, underpinned by years of reduced
rainfall and a severe drought, set the scene for the
Black Summer crisis.
Recommendations - The 3 Rs - Response,
Readiness and Recovery
There is no doubt that bushfires in Australia have
become more frequent, ferocious and unpredictable
with major losses in 2001/02 in NSW, 2003 in the
ACT, 2013 in Tasmania and NSW, 2018 in Queensland,
2009 Black Saturday Fires in Victoria and 2019/20 in
Queensland, NSW, Victoria and South Australia. We are
now in a new era of supercharged bushfire risk, forcing
a fundamental rethink of how we prevent, prepare for,
respond to, and recover from bushfires.
This Australian Bushfire and Climate Plan report
provides a broad plan and practical ideas for
governments, fire and land management agencies
and communities to help us mitigate and adapt to
worsening fire conditions. The 165 recommendations
include many measures that can be implemented right
now, to ensure communities are better protected.
Climate risk disclosure: What are the financial and asset impacts of physical...Briony Turner
This presentation was given as part of Futurebuild 2020 | 4 March | Session: How do we achieve '100% net zero carbon'? You will need to download it to use the hyperlinks.
Find out more about the recommendations arising from my PhD in this LinkedIn post: Stepping out -recommendations for mainstreaming climate change adaptation of England's social housing stock: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stepping-out-recommendations-mainstreaming-climate-change-turner/
Interesting and concerning to see a leading company involved in the supply chain of one of the least efficient sources of fossil fuels listed as a climate leader. Does (or should this) signal a concern for those relying on CDP data and rankings for thier investment decisions?
Searching for a new mission to work on, I analyzed in Internet how to get in contact which industrial companies which got strong compromise with our future. Not so easy :-)
Hereby I share you from CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project) the "A-List" Report End 2014 ("A" like we all now from energy efficiency labels). Herein you will find 767 companies with clear sustainable strategies. And at the end of the report the black sheeps which did not contribute transparency dates to CDP for the Climate Performance Leadership Index (CPLI).
Interesting, too...all these companies performed in sum better than reference index values on stock exchange. see for details the added report
What is the global reporting initiative?dean771100
What is the Global Reporting Initiative?
The GRI is a global standard for sustainability reporting designed by organizations and investors to measure business performance. The GRI has been adopted as a requirement by leading institutional investors, government regulators and development organizations around the world. It sets out a universal framework for sustainability reporting based on the shared understanding that such information can provide new insights into how companies operate and their contribution to sustainable development.
El nuevo informe del CDP revela que las empresas líderes en gestión del cambio climático (rendimiento y divulgación) han generado una mayor rentabilidad (ROE) en los últimos tres años.
Carrots Sticks Global trends in sustainability reporting regulation and polic...Lausanne Montreux Congress
Last year, 2015, was a milestone for sustainability with
crucial and unprecedented agreements by the international
community, including the Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs)1 and the Paris Agreement on climate change action.
The year 2016 now calls for translating these achievements
into action to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development.
1- Introduce your environmental issue and your purpose of analysis.docxmonicafrancis71118
1- Introduce your environmental issue and your purpose of analysis of the impacts the issue has created and what is being done to help this issue (solutions).
2- Develop a background paragraph of the issue - the history of its development, its current situation, and its size and scope.
3- Develop a paragraph for each impact this environmental issue has on the world, explaining the impact and providing evidence of this impact from sources. (3 parghs)
4- Develop an analysis paragraph for each solution that is being used or developed – explaining the solution clearly, and discussing how this will impact the problem, discussing the impact and limitations of the solution.
5- Develop a clear conclusion summarizing your analysis process and insights gleaned from your analysis.
Reporting on long-term value creation by Canadian companies: A
longitudinal assessment
Petra F.A. Dilling a, *, Peter Harris b
a School of Management, New York Institute of Technology, 701 W Georgia St., Vancouver, BC V7Y 1K8, Canada
b School of Management, New York Institute of Technology, 26West 61st Street, New York, NY, NY 10023, USA
a r t i c l e i n f o
Article history:
Received 30 August 2017
Received in revised form
21 January 2018
Accepted 27 March 2018
Available online 27 April 2018
Keywords:
Long-term value creation
Integrated reporting
Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
Canadian extractive sector
Sustainability
Stakeholders
a b s t r a c t
In the wake of the global financial crisis, a new wave of stakeholder demands has developed calling on
companies to shift focus towards long-term value creation and moving away from a short-term earnings
emphasis. Aligned with these demands, urgent calls for more transparency and improved reporting on
both financial as well as non-financial reports have been made. The objective of this study was to analyze
longitudinal disclosure quality and quantity trends in reporting on long-term value creation of 19
publicly traded Canadian energy and mining companies. Content analysis was conducted in order to
assess disclosure on long-term value creation in annual financial and sustainability reports. The empirical
results show that the companies experienced a substantial increase in the reporting disclosure quality
and quantity. This was true for both disclosure in the annual financial reports as well as in the sus-
tainability reports. These results supported the hypotheses that Canadian public energy and mining
companies had increased their quantity and quality of long-term value creation disclosure in 2014 as
compared to 2012. Even though increases in disclosure quality could be observed (especially in the areas
of governance, responsible work practices, outside relationships and risk management), overall disclo-
sure quality (especially in areas such as connectivity between financials and sustainability sections,
materiality analysis, projects with high climate risk exposure, cost of energy, responsible work practices,
ince.
Presentation delivered at the Women in Finance Conference, South Africa.
The presentation deals with Integrated Sustainability Reporting, South Africa, 2010.
Raportul PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) cu tendinte si recomandari referitoare la modul in care companiile isi raporteaza performantele de sustenabilitate
this issue.
Climate Governance Initiative Australia
The AICD is the host of the Climate Governance
Initiative Australia which assists in supporting
our members in meeting the challenges and
opportunities of governing climate change risk.
As host of the Australian Chapter of the Climate
Governance Initiative, our members have
access to a global network of experts in risk
and resilience and to non-executive directors
who are leading their organisations’ governance
response to climate change.
The Climate Governance Initiative (CGI) is an
active and rapidly expanding network of over
20 bodies globally, whose Chapters promote the
World Economic Forum Climate Governance
Principles for boards and effective climate
governance within their jurisdictions. The
principles are set out in Appendix 2 of this guide.
The principles support directors to gain
awareness, embed climate considerations into
board decision making, and understand and act
upon the risks and opportunities that climate
change poses to their organisations.
CGI chapters have already been established
in many comparable countries, including the
UK, US (hosted by the National Association of
Corporate Directors), Canada (hosted by the
Institute of Corporate Directors) and France.
Australian Bushfire
and Climate Plan
Final report of the National Bushfire and Climate Summit 2020
The severity and scale of Australian bushfires
is escalating
Australia’s Black Summer fires over 2019 and 2020
were unprecedented in scale and levels of destruction.
Fuelled by climate change, the hottest and driest year
ever recorded resulted in fires that burned through land
two-and-a-half times the size of Tasmania (more than 17
million hectares), killed more than a billion animals, and
affected nearly 80 percent of Australians. This included
the tragic loss of over 450 lives from the fires and
smoke, more than 3,000 homes were destroyed, and
thousands of other buildings.
While unprecedented, this tragedy was not
unforeseen, nor unexpected. For decades climate
scientists have warned of an increase in climaterelated disasters, including longer and more
dangerous bushfire seasons, which have become
directly observable over the last 20 years. Extremely
hot, dry conditions, underpinned by years of reduced
rainfall and a severe drought, set the scene for the
Black Summer crisis.
Recommendations - The 3 Rs - Response,
Readiness and Recovery
There is no doubt that bushfires in Australia have
become more frequent, ferocious and unpredictable
with major losses in 2001/02 in NSW, 2003 in the
ACT, 2013 in Tasmania and NSW, 2018 in Queensland,
2009 Black Saturday Fires in Victoria and 2019/20 in
Queensland, NSW, Victoria and South Australia. We are
now in a new era of supercharged bushfire risk, forcing
a fundamental rethink of how we prevent, prepare for,
respond to, and recover from bushfires.
This Australian Bushfire and Climate Plan report
provides a broad plan and practical ideas for
governments, fire and land management agencies
and communities to help us mitigate and adapt to
worsening fire conditions. The 165 recommendations
include many measures that can be implemented right
now, to ensure communities are better protected.
How to work with petroleum hydrocarbon suppliers to reduce and eliminate cont...Turlough Guerin GAICD FGIA
Petroleum hydrocarbon suppliers affect a mine's goals for environmental performance because of the extensive reach of petroleum hydrocarbon products into the mining and minerals product life cycle, their impact on operational efficiencies, cost, and mine viability, and their potential for leaving negative environmental as well as safety legacies. The supplied petroleum hydrocarbon life cycle is a framework that enables structured engagement between supplier and customer on a range of environmental performance issues because it is an example of input into the mining industry that affects the entire mining and minerals processing an value chain. Engagement with suppliers in a proactive manner can be a risk management strategy. Questions for businesses to ask in relation to suppliers and their role in minimizing business risks and creating new value are offered (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/rem.21669).
Governments would get bigger bang for taxpayer
buck by instead spending more on upgrading existing infrastructure,
and on social infrastructure such as aged care and mental health care.
Choosing net zero is
an economic necessity
Australia pays a high price of a global failure
to deliver new growth in recovery. Compared
to this dismal future, Deloitte Access Economics
estimates a new growth recovery could
grow Australia’s economy by $680 billion
(present value terms) and increase GDP
by 2.6% in 2070 – adding over 250,000 jobs
to the Australian economy by 2070.
The world of venture capital has seen huge changes over the past decade. Ten years ago there were fewer than
20 known unicorns in the US5
; there are now over 2006
. Annual investment of global venture capital has increased
more than fivefold over the same period, rising to $264 billion by 2019. This investment has been dominated by the
tech sector harnessing digital frontiers to disrupt traditional industries – including cloud computing, mobile apps,
marketplaces, data platforms, machine learning and deep tech.7
It is an ecosystem that acts as the birthplace for
innovation and brands that can shape the future of consumerism, sectors and markets.
As COVID-19 has taken hold of the
world, the question of whether venture
capital, and early stage investing more
broadly, is backing and scaling the
innovations our world really needs has
never been more pertinent. Life science
and biotech investing is an asset class
perhaps most resilient and relevant to
the short-term impact of COVID-19,
but there is another impact-critical
investment area that is emerging as
an increasingly important investment
frontier: climate tech.
This research represents a first-ofits-kind analysis of the state of global
climate tech investing. We define what
it is and show how this new frontier
of venture investing is becoming a
standout investing opportunity for the
2020s. Representing 6% of global
annual venture capital funding in 2019,
our analysis finds this segment has
grown over 3750% in absolute terms
since 2013. This is on the order of 3
times the growth rate of VC investment
into AI, during a time period renowned
for its uptick in AI investment.8
Looking forward can climate tech in the
2020s follow a similar journey to the
artificial intelligence (AI) investing boom
in the 2010s? The substantial rates of
growth seen in climate tech in the late
2010s, and the overarching need for
new transformational solutions across
multiple sectors of the economy,
suggests yes. The stage appears set
for an explosion of climate tech into the
mainstream investment and corporate
landscape in the decade ahead.
Nine shifts will radically change the way construction projects are delivered—and similar
industries have already undergone many of the shifts. A combination of sustainability
requirements, cost pressure, skills scarcity, new materials, industrial approaches, digitalization,
and a new breed of player looks set to transform the value chain. The shifts ahead include
productization and specialization, increased value-chain control, and greater customercentricity
and branding. Consolidation and internationalization will create the scale needed to
allow higher levels of investment in digitalization, R&D and equipment, and sustainability as well
as human capital.
Sustainable Finance Industry Guide
This industry guide provides information about sustainable finance in the built environment in Australia. It is designed to support investor understanding of Australia’s world-class rating tools and standards, and how these can be applied to direct more capital towards sustainable finance for our built environment. Included are insights that reflect lessons learnt when using a rating scheme to establish an investment framework, conduct
due diligence or report on an issuance.
Precincts to Support the Delivery of Zero Energy
This report frames the physical and organisational context for precinct action and identifies potential programs and government solutions that may be applied to better streamline the realisation of precinct-scale action to progress towards zero energy (and carbon) ready residential buildings within both new and existing precincts.
The report was developed based on a literature review and engagement with more than 80 stakeholders from industry, academia and government with the aim of identifying appropriate government action in the form of proposed solutions that may be applicable across Commonwealth, state and territory and/ or local governments.
The report has given focus to opportunities for precincts that are not already considered in the Trajectory to ensure that a wider system response is taken to considering the zero energy (and carbon) ready outcomes being sought.
When seeking funding, environmental and sustainability professionals must clarify how their role and the proposed project fit within the business' strategy.
This article provides a checklist for those seeking funding for sustainability and environmental projects.
The suggested questions will assist non-executive directors in evaluating sustainability-focused proposals.
when will pi network coin be available on crypto exchange.DOT TECH
There is no set date for when Pi coins will enter the market.
However, the developers are working hard to get them released as soon as possible.
Once they are available, users will be able to exchange other cryptocurrencies for Pi coins on designated exchanges.
But for now the only way to sell your pi coins is through verified pi vendor.
Here is the telegram contact of my personal pi vendor
@Pi_vendor_247
Lecture slide titled Fraud Risk Mitigation, Webinar Lecture Delivered at the Society for West African Internal Audit Practitioners (SWAIAP) on Wednesday, November 8, 2023.
how to swap pi coins to foreign currency withdrawable.DOT TECH
As of my last update, Pi is still in the testing phase and is not tradable on any exchanges.
However, Pi Network has announced plans to launch its Testnet and Mainnet in the future, which may include listing Pi on exchanges.
The current method for selling pi coins involves exchanging them with a pi vendor who purchases pi coins for investment reasons.
If you want to sell your pi coins, reach out to a pi vendor and sell them to anyone looking to sell pi coins from any country around the globe.
Below is the contact information for my personal pi vendor.
Telegram: @Pi_vendor_247
How to get verified on Coinbase Account?_.docxBuy bitget
t's important to note that buying verified Coinbase accounts is not recommended and may violate Coinbase's terms of service. Instead of searching to "buy verified Coinbase accounts," follow the proper steps to verify your own account to ensure compliance and security.
What price will pi network be listed on exchangesDOT TECH
The rate at which pi will be listed is practically unknown. But due to speculations surrounding it the predicted rate is tends to be from 30$ — 50$.
So if you are interested in selling your pi network coins at a high rate tho. Or you can't wait till the mainnet launch in 2026. You can easily trade your pi coins with a merchant.
A merchant is someone who buys pi coins from miners and resell them to Investors looking forward to hold massive quantities till mainnet launch.
I will leave the telegram contact of my personal pi vendor to trade with.
@Pi_vendor_247
where can I find a legit pi merchant onlineDOT TECH
Yes. This is very easy what you need is a recommendation from someone who has successfully traded pi coins before with a merchant.
Who is a pi merchant?
A pi merchant is someone who buys pi network coins and resell them to Investors looking forward to hold thousands of pi coins before the open mainnet.
I will leave the telegram contact of my personal pi merchant to trade with
@Pi_vendor_247
Abhay Bhutada Leads Poonawalla Fincorp To Record Low NPA And Unprecedented Gr...Vighnesh Shashtri
Under the leadership of Abhay Bhutada, Poonawalla Fincorp has achieved record-low Non-Performing Assets (NPA) and witnessed unprecedented growth. Bhutada's strategic vision and effective management have significantly enhanced the company's financial health, showcasing a robust performance in the financial sector. This achievement underscores the company's resilience and ability to thrive in a competitive market, setting a new benchmark for operational excellence in the industry.
The secret way to sell pi coins effortlessly.DOT TECH
Well as we all know pi isn't launched yet. But you can still sell your pi coins effortlessly because some whales in China are interested in holding massive pi coins. And they are willing to pay good money for it. If you are interested in selling I will leave a contact for you. Just telegram this number below. I sold about 3000 pi coins to him and he paid me immediately.
Telegram: @Pi_vendor_247
how to sell pi coins effectively (from 50 - 100k pi)DOT TECH
Anywhere in the world, including Africa, America, and Europe, you can sell Pi Network Coins online and receive cash through online payment options.
Pi has not yet been launched on any exchange because we are currently using the confined Mainnet. The planned launch date for Pi is June 28, 2026.
Reselling to investors who want to hold until the mainnet launch in 2026 is currently the sole way to sell.
Consequently, right now. All you need to do is select the right pi network provider.
Who is a pi merchant?
An individual who buys coins from miners on the pi network and resells them to investors hoping to hang onto them until the mainnet is launched is known as a pi merchant.
debuts.
I'll provide you the Telegram username
@Pi_vendor_247
BYD SWOT Analysis and In-Depth Insights 2024.pptxmikemetalprod
Indepth analysis of the BYD 2024
BYD (Build Your Dreams) is a Chinese automaker and battery manufacturer that has snowballed over the past two decades to become a significant player in electric vehicles and global clean energy technology.
This SWOT analysis examines BYD's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats as it competes in the fast-changing automotive and energy storage industries.
Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Shenzhen, BYD started as a battery company before expanding into automobiles in the early 2000s.
Initially manufacturing gasoline-powered vehicles, BYD focused on plug-in hybrid and fully electric vehicles, leveraging its expertise in battery technology.
Today, BYD is the world’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer, delivering over 1.2 million electric cars globally. The company also produces electric buses, trucks, forklifts, and rail transit.
On the energy side, BYD is a major supplier of rechargeable batteries for cell phones, laptops, electric vehicles, and energy storage systems.
1. Elemental Economics - Introduction to mining.pdfNeal Brewster
After this first you should: Understand the nature of mining; have an awareness of the industry’s boundaries, corporate structure and size; appreciation the complex motivations and objectives of the industries’ various participants; know how mineral reserves are defined and estimated, and how they evolve over time.
US Economic Outlook - Being Decided - M Capital Group August 2021.pdfpchutichetpong
The U.S. economy is continuing its impressive recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and not slowing down despite re-occurring bumps. The U.S. savings rate reached its highest ever recorded level at 34% in April 2020 and Americans seem ready to spend. The sectors that had been hurt the most by the pandemic specifically reduced consumer spending, like retail, leisure, hospitality, and travel, are now experiencing massive growth in revenue and job openings.
Could this growth lead to a “Roaring Twenties”? As quickly as the U.S. economy contracted, experiencing a 9.1% drop in economic output relative to the business cycle in Q2 2020, the largest in recorded history, it has rebounded beyond expectations. This surprising growth seems to be fueled by the U.S. government’s aggressive fiscal and monetary policies, and an increase in consumer spending as mobility restrictions are lifted. Unemployment rates between June 2020 and June 2021 decreased by 5.2%, while the demand for labor is increasing, coupled with increasing wages to incentivize Americans to rejoin the labor force. Schools and businesses are expected to fully reopen soon. In parallel, vaccination rates across the country and the world continue to rise, with full vaccination rates of 50% and 14.8% respectively.
However, it is not completely smooth sailing from here. According to M Capital Group, the main risks that threaten the continued growth of the U.S. economy are inflation, unsettled trade relations, and another wave of Covid-19 mutations that could shut down the world again. Have we learned from the past year of COVID-19 and adapted our economy accordingly?
“In order for the U.S. economy to continue growing, whether there is another wave or not, the U.S. needs to focus on diversifying supply chains, supporting business investment, and maintaining consumer spending,” says Grace Feeley, a research analyst at M Capital Group.
While the economic indicators are positive, the risks are coming closer to manifesting and threatening such growth. The new variants spreading throughout the world, Delta, Lambda, and Gamma, are vaccine-resistant and muddy the predictions made about the economy and health of the country. These variants bring back the feeling of uncertainty that has wreaked havoc not only on the stock market but the mindset of people around the world. MCG provides unique insight on how to mitigate these risks to possibly ensure a bright economic future.
US Economic Outlook - Being Decided - M Capital Group August 2021.pdf
Transitions Report 2020
1. Simon Dietz, Rhoda Byrne, Dan Gardiner,
Glen Gostlow, Valentin Jahn, Michal
Nachmany, Jolien Noels and Rory Sullivan
TPI State of Transition
Report 2020
2. The Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) is a
global initiative led by asset owners and supported
by asset managers, established in January 2017.
Aimed at investors, it assesses companies’ progress
on the transition to a low-carbon economy,
supporting efforts to address climate change. Over
67 investors globally have already pledged support
for the TPI; jointly they represent nearly US$19 trillion
combined Assets Under Management and Advice.
Using companies’ publicly disclosed data, TPI:
• Assesses the quality of companies’
management of their carbon emissions
and of risks and opportunities related to
the low-carbon transition, in line with the
recommendations of the Task Force on
Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
• Assesses how companies’ planned or
expected future Carbon Performance
compares with international targets and
national pledges made as part of the 2015
Paris Agreement on climate change.
• Publishes the results via an open-access online
tool: www.transitionpathwayinitiative.org.
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Change and the Environment at the London School
of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is TPI’s
academic partner. It has developed the assessment
framework, provides company assessments, and
hosts the online tool. FTSE Russell is TPI’s data
partner. FTSE Russell is a leading global provider
of benchmarking, analytics solutions and indices.
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provides a secretariat to TPI. PRI is an international
network of investors implementing the six Principles
for Responsible Investment.
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3. Heart-breaking scenes of devastation caused by the heatwave
and fires that swept through Australia in December 2019 ended
what had already been a year during which many lives were
lost, biodiversity destroyed and billions of dollars of damage
incurred. The physical impacts of climate change were felt on
every continent in every economy. 2019 was also the year that
saw millions of people across the world take to the streets and
protest at the lack of action on climate change.
The clock is ticking – according to the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change’s Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5
Degrees, we have now entered the final decade in which to take
action to avoid catastrophic climate change.
We established the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) in 2017
with the aim of defining what the transition to a low-carbon
economy looks like for companies in high-impact sectors such
as oil and gas, mining, and electricity generation. Our mission
was to enable asset owners and other stakeholders to make
informed judgements about how companies with the biggest
impact on climate change are adapting their business models
to prepare for the transition to a low-carbon economy. This
would then enable asset owners to include this information
in their investment decision-making, to support their funds’
alignment with the goals of the Paris Agreement and to inform
their engagement with companies.
Use of TPI data has continued to grow considerably with
67 funds representing nearly US$19 trillion in Assets Under
Management now using TPI’s insights. The period 2017 to 2020
was very much about proof of concept, demonstrating that it
was feasible to objectively and robustly assess these companies’
quality of management and current and future carbon
performance in a readily accessible way to influence investment
decision-making and corporate behaviour. TPI has created a
common assessment framework that supports a new form
of robust, outcome-oriented engagement. We were delighted
that TPI was selected to provide the assessment framework for
Adam C.T. Matthews and Faith Ward, Co-chairs,
Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI)
Foreword Contents
Summary 3
1. Introduction 6
2. State of transition 2020 9
Management Quality level 10
Management Quality: 12
indicator by indicator
Trends in Management Quality 14
Carbon Performance: 16
alignment with the Paris
Agreement benchmarks
Management Quality 18
and Carbon Performance
by geography
Corporate emissions 20
reduction targets
3. Sector focus: Shipping 22
4. Emerging issues: 24
corporate net zero
targets and offsetting
5. Key sectoral opportunities 26
for improvement
6. Implications for investors 27
References 31
Appendix 1: TPI Management 32
Quality, indicators
Appendix 2: Heat map 36
of Management Quality
indicator by indicator
at the sector level
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4. Climate Action 100+, the US$40 trillion-backed
global engagement initiative. In January 2020
we also saw the launch of the FTSE TPI Climate
Transition Index series, which provides the first
passive product imbedding forward-looking
climate data and enables passive investing
to support the low-carbon transition.
Priorities for 2020 and beyond
In 2019 we reviewed TPI’s progress from when
it was first established. While there was much
to be proud of, we recognised that we needed
to scale up and accelerate our efforts in
response to investor demand for independent,
academically robust and non-commercial tools
to support the transition. Our workplan for the
period 2020 and beyond reflects that urgency.
We will be developing and implementing our
priorities in partnership with TPI supporters,
and alongside our partners in research (the
London School of Economics’ Grantham
Research Institute on Climate Change and
the Environment), data (FTSE Russell) and
administration (Principles for Responsible
Investment [PRI]). Those priorities include:
• Extending the coverage of our listed equity
universe to encompass approximately
800 listed companies. In total, these
companies account for around 80 per
cent of the greenhouse gas emissions
associated with listed markets.
• Extending the TPI assessment framework
to include corporate fixed income.
• Extending the TPI assessment framework
to include sovereign bonds.
• Extending the TPI framework to analyse
the role investors and finance can play
in supporting net zero pathways for key
sectors and subsectors such as aviation,
automotives, shipping, road freight, steel
and cement. Through adding a sector-wide
lens to TPI’s company-specific framework,
we can better understand how investors
can finance the low-carbon transition.
• Building analytical tools that enable asset
owners and asset managers to assess
whether their investment portfolios are
aligned with a 2°C or 1.5°C temperature
rise, and that enable stakeholders to assess
the credibility of net zero commitments.
• Building a framework that enables investors
to assess if corporate lobbying is aligned
with the goals of the Paris Agreement.
We are immensely grateful to all the
organisations that have worked with us over
the first three years of TPI. Based on all that
has been achieved in that time we have a high
ambition agenda and look forward to working
with all partners and supporters to enable us,
the investment community, to take action that
seeks to protect the investments of our clients
and beneficiaries and to protect the world into
which they and their families will live.
March 2020
“TPI has created a common assessment
framework that supports a new form of
robust, outcome-oriented engagement”
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5. This 2020 State of Transition Report from the
Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) is the latest
in a series of annual stocktakes of the progress
being made by the world’s biggest and most
emissions-intensive public companies on the
transition to a low-carbon economy.
We have assessed 332 companies on their
‘Management Quality’ and 238 of these on their
‘Carbon Performance’. Management Quality
tracks companies’ management/governance
of greenhouse gas emissions and the risks and
opportunities arising for those companies from
the low-carbon transition. Carbon Performance
measures companies’ emissions intensity and
benchmarks the extent to which the companies
are, or will be, aligned with the global
temperature goals set out in the 2015 UN Paris
Agreement on climate change. Together, these
assessments provide a holistic, backward- and
forward-looking view of companies’ progress,
in terms of both inputs and outputs, in line
with the recommendations of the Task Force
on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
On Management Quality, nearly
40 per cent of companies are
demonstrably unprepared for
the transition
Management Quality continues to improve,
but only slowly. Nearly 40 per cent of
Summary
companies are on Levels 0–2, meaning they
are demonstrably unprepared for the transition
(Figure S1).
The average Management Quality level
of all companies in the TPI database is now
2.7, more than halfway between ‘building
capacity on climate change’ (Level 2) and
‘integrating climate change into operational
decision-making’ (Level 3). In summer 2019
the average company score was 2.5, so we
can see modest progress.
Ten out of the 332 companies assessed
(3 per cent) are on Level 0: still unaware
of or not acknowledging climate change
as a business issue. This is the same share
as in summer 2019. 128 companies (38 per
cent) are on Levels 0–2. These companies are
yet to implement at least one of the following
four basic carbon management practices:
explicitly recognising climate change as a
relevant business risk/opportunity; having a
policy commitment to act on climate change;
disclosing operational emissions (Scope 1 and
2); setting a target to reduce emissions (even
a qualitative target). Ninety-two companies
are now on Level 3 and 112 are on Level 4,
a total of 62 per cent across these two levels,
up from 54 per cent a year ago. The share
of Level 4 companies has increased from
28 to 34 per cent.
Figure S1. Management Quality level of all TPI companies
Level 4
Strategic assessment
Level 3
Integrated into
operational
decision-making
Level 2
Building capacity
Level 1
Awareness
Level 0
Unaware
10 companies: 3%
64 companies: 19%
54 companies: 16%
92 companies: 28%
112 companies: 34%
14 Transport
25 Industrials/materials
25 Energy
0 Consumer goods
and services
8 Transport
19 Industrials/materials
27 Energy
0 Consumer goods
and services
15 Transport
34 Industrials/materials
40 Energy
3 Consumer goods
and services
18 Transport
38 Industrials/materials
45 Energy
11 Consumer goods
and services
2 Transport
3 Industrials/materials
4 Energy
1 Consumer goods
and services
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State of Transition 2020: Summary
6. More advanced carbon management
practices are needed
The vast majority of companies have basic
climate governance, emissions metrics and
targets in place. Ninety-seven per cent of
companies acknowledge climate change
as a significant issue for the business and
95 per cent have a policy commitment to
act on climate change. Seventy-six per cent
of companies disclose their Scope 1 and
2 emissions and 70 per cent have set an
emissions reduction target.
However, fewer companies are implementing
more strategic and long-term carbon
management practices. For example, only
41 per cent of companies have incorporated
climate change performance in executive
remuneration; only 40 per cent have
incorporated climate change risks and
opportunities in their strategy. Investors
should engage companies to take a more
strategic approach to climate change.
Lack of consistency between company
and trade association positions
A slight majority of companies disclose their
involvement in trade associations’ lobbying on
climate change but barely any have measures
to ensure consistency between company and
trade association positions.
Corporate climate lobbying is increasingly
a focus of investor attention, partly because
of a fear that companies may be directly or
indirectly engaged in activities that run counter
to their publicly stated positions on climate
action. Therefore, in this assessment cycle
we introduced two new Management Quality
indicators. First, we asked if companies disclose
their membership and involvement in trade
associations engaged in climate issues; 54 per
cent of companies do so. Second, we asked if
companies ensure consistency between their
own climate change policies and the positions
taken by trade associations of which they are
members; only 6 per cent of companies do so.
On Carbon Performance, more than
80 per cent of companies remain off
track for a 2°C world
Carbon Performance assessment involves
quantitative benchmarking of companies’
emissions pathways against the international
targets and national pledges made as part
of the Paris Agreement on climate change.
We now assess 238 companies on Carbon
Performance in nine sectors: airlines; aluminium;
autos; cement; electricity; oil and gas; paper;
shipping; and steel. That is 78 more than in the
summer 2019 assessment.
Figure S2 shows the results of our assessment.
Only 31 per cent of the 238 companies are,
or will be, aligned with the Paris/International
Pledges benchmark in 2030/50 –the benchmark
that reflects the emissions reductions pledged
in the Nationally Determined Contributions
(NDCs) offered by countries as part of the Paris
Agreement (and also country commitments
made through other international forums, such
as the International Maritime Organization).
The NDC commitments will be insufficient
to limit global warming to 2°C or below and
will have to be upgraded in 2020 as part of
the Paris Agreement process. Just 18 per cent
of companies will be aligned with the 2°C
benchmark in 2030/50 and just 13 per cent will
be aligned with our most ambitious benchmark,
‘Below 2 Degrees’. These shares are very similar
to a year ago.
New net zero announcements imply the
use of offsetting, which presents risks
Over the past year, the race to reach net zero
emissions has been heating up, with many
countries setting net zero targets and worried
investors engaging with companies to do the
same. As a result, companies are beginning to
act. Twenty-one of the 132 TPI-assessed energy
companies have now set a net zero target,
although the scope of emissions covered
varies and is usually much less than 100 per
cent of lifecycle emissions (Scope 1 to 3).
Outside the energy sector, companies including
EasyJet, HeidelbergCement and ThyssenKrupp
have also announced net zero targets.
With net zero targets often comes a reliance,
to a greater or lesser extent, on offsetting:
that is, purchasing emissions reductions from
beyond companies’ boundaries. Investors
should ask what the costs and risks of offsets
are compared with companies’ own emissions
reductions, and whether or not they will help
in achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Offset prices vary hugely, but the average price
is currently very low, well under what has been
recommended in order to deliver the Paris goals.
Part of the discrepancy reflects the fact that
the market is still small; as demand grows, we
would expect prices to do the same. However,
the price difference may also partly reflect
concerns about the reliability of very cheap
offsets in the voluntary market at present.
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7. State of Transition 2020: Summary
No disclosure
Not aligned
Paris Pledges
2 Degrees
Below 2 Degrees
37
15%
128
54%
30
13%
13
5%
30
13%
Figure S2. Carbon Performance alignment with the Paris Agreement benchmarks
(number and percentage of companies)
“Investors should ask what the costs
and risks of offsets are compared
with companies’ own emissions
reductions, and whether or not they
will help in achieving the goals of the
Paris Agreement”
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8. Introduction1
Sector No. of companies
currently assessed on
Management Quality
No. of companies
currently assessed on
Carbon Performance
Carbon
Performance
measure
Oil and gas 50 50 Carbon intensity of
primary energy supply
Electricity utilities 62 59 Carbon intensity of
electricity generation
Coal mining* 23 – –
Automobiles 22 22 New vehicle carbon
emissions per kilometre
Airlines 22 22 Carbon emissions per
revenue tonne kilometre
Shipping 13 13 Carbon emissions per
tonne kilometre
Cement 22 22 Carbon intensity of
cementitious product
Steel 24 24 Carbon intensity of
crude steel production
Aluminium 15 8 Carbon intensity of
aluminium production
Paper 18 18 Carbon intensity of pulp,
paper and paperboard
production
Chemicals 21 – –
Oil and gas
distribution
6 – –
Services 6 – –
Consumer goods 9 – –
Other basic materials 5 – –
Other industrials 18 – –
Total** 332 238
This is the 2020 State of Transition Report, the
latest in a series of annual stocktakes of the
progress being made by the world’s largest,
most emissions-intensive public companies
in the transition to a low-carbon economy.
The analysis draws on the entire database
maintained by the Transition Pathway Initiative
(TPI), a global initiative, led by asset owners
and supported by asset managers, which
assesses the progress large corporations are
making on climate change. Established in
January 2017, TPI is now supported by 67
investors globally with nearly US$19 trillion
in Assets under Management and Advice
(as of February 2020).
The TPI database now covers 332 corporations
worldwide (up from 268 in 2019) in 16 business
sectors assessed on Management Quality, 238
of them also assessed on Carbon Performance
(up from 160 in 2019) (Table 1.1).
Table 1.1. TPI sectoral coverage and Carbon Performance measures
Notes: *TPI will shortly be publishing a discussion paper on the Carbon Performance of diversified mining companies.1
**Companies assessed in more than one sector are counted once.
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9. State of Transition 2020: Introduction
In each sector, TPI selects the largest
public companies globally, based on market
capitalisation. These companies usually
constitute the largest holdings in investor
portfolios, as well as usually being the highest
emitters of greenhouse gases. We also cover
a number of additional companies that are
being engaged by the Climate Action 100+
investor initiative. These additional companies
are large within their sector, often regional if
not global, and have high lifecycle greenhouse
gas emissions or are highly dependent on high
emitting companies.
The data presented in this report were originally
published in the TPI database on its website
(‘the TPI tool’) between mid-2019 and early
2020. The next annual update of the entire TPI
database will be carried out in stages over the
remainder of 2020.
Overview of methodologya
Using public disclosures, TPI assesses companies
on their Management Quality and Carbon
Performance, two quite different elements
of how companies are approaching the low-
carbon transition. The former focuses on
inputs and processes, the latter on outcomes.
Together, these assessments are intended to
provide a holistic view of companies’ progress,
both backward- and forward-looking.
Management Quality
TPI’s Management Quality framework is
currently based on 19 indicators (up from 17
in the previous iteration), each of which tests
if a company has implemented a particular
carbon management practice (Yes/No), such
as formalising a policy commitment to action
on climate change, disclosing its emissions, or
setting emissions targets. These 19 indicators
(described in detail in Appendix 1) are then used
to map companies on to five levels, shown in Box
1.1. Companies need to be assessed as ‘Yes’ on
all of the questions pertaining to a level before
they can advance to the next, with the exception
of Level 0. Companies that have been assessed
as ‘Yes’ on all Level 4 questions (and thus all
questions in the framework) are described as 4*
companies. The data underpinning the indicators
are provided by FTSE Russell on the basis of
companies’ public disclosures.
Carbon Performance
TPI’s Carbon Performance assessment
translates emissions targets made at the
international level under the 2015 UN Paris
Box 1.1. TPI levels of Management Quality
• Level 0 – Unaware of (or not acknowledging) climate change as a business issue.
• Level 1 – Acknowledging climate change as a business issue: The company
acknowledges that climate change presents business risks and/or opportunities,
and that the company has a responsibility to manage its greenhouse gas emissions.
This is the point at which companies adopt a climate change policy.
• Level 2 – Building capacity: The company develops its basic capacity, its management
systems and its processes, and starts to report on practice and performance.
• Level 3 – Integrating into operational decision-making: The company improves its
operational practices, assigns senior management or board responsibility for climate
change and provides comprehensive disclosures on its carbon practices
and performance.
• Level 4 – Strategic assessment: The company develops a more strategic and holistic
understanding of risks and opportunities related to the low-carbon transition and
integrates this into its business strategy decisions.
a. Further details of our methodology can be found on the TPI website at https://www.transitionpathwayinitiative.org/tpi/methodology and
in Carbon Performance methodology notes for each sector, available from the Publications menu on the website. The Sectoral Decarbonization
Approach (SDA) was created by CDP, WWF and WRI in 2015 (see https://sciencebasedtargets.org/sda/).
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10. b. Note that in 2020, all signatories to the Paris Agreement will have to submit new NDCs.
Agreement on climate change (and through
other international forums) into benchmarks
against which the performance of individual
companies can be compared. We take
a sector-by-sector approach, recognising
that different sectors of the economy face
different challenges arising from the low-
carbon transition, including where emissions
are concentrated in the value chain and how
costly it is to reduce emissions. Table 1.1 lists
the Carbon Performance measures used in each
sector we cover. These measures are intended
to cover the majority of lifecycle emissions, while
taking into account issues of data availability.
We benchmark emissions in most sectors
against three scenarios, derived from
modelling by the International Energy
Agency (IEA):
• Paris Pledges, consistent with the emissions
reductions pledged by countries as part of
the Paris Agreement in the form of the first
set of Nationally Determined Contributions
(NDCs).b
These are insufficient to limit
global warming to 2°C or below.
• 2 Degrees, consistent with the overall
aim of the Paris Agreement to hold
“the increase in the global average
temperature to well below 2°C above
pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts
to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C
above pre-industrial levels”, albeit at
the low end of the range of ambition.
• Below 2 Degrees, consistent with a
more ambitious interpretation of the
Paris Agreement’s overall aim.
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11. State of Transition 2020
In this section we summarise TPI’s latest findings on Management Quality and
Carbon Performance, and compare them with our findings from previous years.
As well as our familiar methods of analysing companies, we focus this year on
regional differences, and on companies’ emissions reduction targets, i.e. looking
at how prevalent quantitative targets are, how forward-looking they are, and
if companies are on track to meet their targets.
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12. Management Quality level
Figure 2.1 shows the number of companies on
each of the five TPI Management Quality levels,
both overall and broken down into four clusters
of sectors: energy (comprising coal mining,
electricity, and oil and gas production and
distribution), transport (airlines, automobile
manufacturing and shipping), industrials/
materials (including aluminium, cement,
chemicals, paper and steel), and consumer
goods/services.
The average Management Quality level
of all companies in the TPI database is now
2.7, more than halfway between ‘building
capacity on climate change’ (Level 2) and
‘integrating climate change into operational
decision-making’ (Level 3). A year ago, the
average company scored 2.5, so we can see
modest progress.
Ten out of the 332 companies assessed (3 per
cent) are on Level 0, still unaware of or not
acknowledging climate change as a business
issue. This is the same share as a year ago.
While some companies moved off Level 0
over the past year, new companies have been
added to the database that start on Level 0.
No fewer than 128 companies (38 per cent)
are on Levels 0–2. These companies are yet
to implement at least one of the following
four basic carbon management practices:
explicitly recognising climate change as a
relevant business risk or opportunity; having
a policy commitment to act on climate
change; disclosing operational greenhouse gas
emissions (Scope 1 and 2c
); setting a target to
reduce emissions (even a qualitative target).
Ninety-two companies are now on Level 3
and 112 are on Level 4, a total of 62 per cent
across these two levels, up from 54 per cent
a year ago. Reaching Level 3 requires both
disclosure of Scope 1 and 2 emissions and
setting emissions reduction targets, which
can be quantitative or qualitative. The share
of Level 4 companies has increased from 28
to 34 per cent. Reaching Level 4 requires the
implementation of a wider variety of carbon
management practices, including, among
others, assigning board responsibility for
climate change, disclosing Scope 3 emissions,
supporting domestic and international climate
policy, and setting quantified emissions
reduction targets.
Of the core, high-emitting TPI sectors,
automobile manufacturers, electricity utilities
and chemical companies lead the way on
Management Quality, all averaging a score
of 3.0 (Figure 2.2). Shipping and coal mining
are currently the worst performing sectors.
The average score in these two sectors is
fractionally below 2, making them the only
sectors to fall below this mark.
Figure 2.1. Management Quality level of all TPI companies
Level 4
Strategic assessment
Level 3
Integrated into
operational
decision-making
Level 2
Building capacity
Level 1
Awareness
Level 0
Unaware
10 companies: 3%
64 companies: 19%
54 companies: 16%
92 companies: 28%
112 companies: 34%
14 Transport
25 Industrials/materials
25 Energy
0 Consumer goods
and services
8 Transport
19 Industrials/materials
27 Energy
0 Consumer goods
and services
15 Transport
34 Industrials/materials
40 Energy
3 Consumer goods
and services
18 Transport
38 Industrials/materials
45 Energy
11 Consumer goods
and services
2 Transport
3 Industrials/materials
4 Energy
1 Consumer goods
and services
c. Under the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, “Scope 1 emissions are direct emissions from owned or controlled sources. Scope 2 emissions are indirect emissions from
the generation of purchased energy. Scope 3 emissions are all indirect emissions (not included in scope 2) that occur in the value chain of the reporting company,
including both upstream and downstream emissions.” See https://ghgprotocol.org/sites/default/files/standards_supporting/FAQ.pdf.
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13. State of Transition 2020: Management Quality level
Airlines
Aluminium
Autos
Cement
Chemicals
Coal mining
Consumer goods
Electricity utilities
Oil and gas
Oil and gas distribution
Other basic materials
Other industrials
Paper
Services
Shipping
Steel
Level 0
Unaware
Level 1
Awareness
Level 2
Building
capacity
Level 3
Integrating into
operational
decision making
Level 4
Strategic
assessment
Key: Market capitalisation Small Medium Large
Figure 2.2. Management Quality by company and sector
Note: Companies appear in each sector they are assessed in, even if the same company is assessed in multiple sectors
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14. Management Quality:
indicator by indicator
Most companies implement basic
carbon management practices
Showing little change from a year ago, 97
per cent of companies acknowledge climate
change as a significant issue for the business
(Question 1d
), 79 per cent recognise climate
change as a business risk/opportunity (Q2)
and 95 per cent have a policy (or equivalent)
commitment to action on climate change
(Q3). As such, the vast majority of companies
have basic climate governance measures in
place (Figure 2.3).
Basic emissions metrics and targets are
disclosed more, and more widely, than a
year ago. Seventy-six per cent of companies
disclose Scope 1 and 2 emissions (Q5). Seventy
per cent of companies have set some form
of emissions reduction target (qualitative or
quantitative; Q4), an improvement of almost
10 percentage points compared with a year
ago. Sixty-eight per cent of companies have
set a quantitative emissions target, compared
with less than 60 per cent of companies a year
ago (Q7). Fifty-seven per cent of companies
have now set a long-term quantified target to
reduce emissions (i.e. of more than five years in
duration; Q14), up from 45 per cent a year ago.
Fewer companies disclose
the more advanced carbon
management practices
Fewer companies are implementing more
strategic and long-term carbon management
practices. Although 62 per cent of companies
have nominated a board member/committee
with explicit responsibility for oversight of
their climate change policy (Q6), only 41
per cent have incorporated climate change
performance in executive remuneration (Q15).
Fifty-six per cent of companies now
demonstrate support for domestic and
international efforts to mitigate climate
change, such as the Paris Agreement (Q10).
Despite that, only 40 per cent of companies
have incorporated climate change risks and
opportunities in their strategy (Q16), only 31
per cent of companies disclose an internal price
of carbon (Q18) and only 26 per cent undertake
and disclose climate scenario planning (Q17).
However, these shares are significantly up on
our last assessment.
New indicators on corporate climate
lobbying
Corporate climate lobbying is increasingly
a focus of investor attention, partly because
of a fear that companies may be directly or
indirectly engaged in activities that run
counter to their publicly stated positions on
climate action. Therefore, for this assessment
cycle we introduced two new Management
Quality indicators:
• Q11. Does the company disclose its
membership and involvement in trade
associations engaged in climate issues?
Fifty-four per cent of companies do so.
• Q19. Does the company ensure
consistency between its climate change
policy and the positions taken by trade
associations of which it is a member?
Only 6 per cent of companies do so.
Aggregates hide some large
differences between sectors
While on aggregate TPI-assessed companies
perform well on the basic indicators, some
sectors that are key to the transition do not
(see Appendix 2). In particular, within the coal
mining sector only 39 per cent of companies
have explicitly recognised climate change
as a relevant business risk/opportunity,
and only 35 per cent have set some form of
emissions reduction target, lagging far behind
other sectors. In shipping, only 15 per cent of
companies have nominated a board member/
committee with explicit responsibility for
oversight of their climate change policy, in
contrast to electricity utilities where 76 per
cent of companies have done so. More analysis
of how individual sectors vary from the TPI
average on an indicator-by-indicator basis
can be found in our sector reports.
d. These numbers correspond to the questions used to assess companies on the TPI Management Quality indicators – see Appendix 1.
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15. State of Transition 2020: Management Quality – indicator by indicator
Figure 2.3. Management Quality, indicator by indicator, mapped against TCFD themes
(% of companies assessed)
TCFD
theme
TPI
level
1. Acknowledge?
2. Recognises as risk/opportunity?
3. Policy commitment to act?
4. Emissions targets?
5. Disclosed Scope 1 2 emissions?
6. Board responsibility?
7. Quantitative emissions targets?
8. Disclosed Scope 3 emissions?
9. Had operational emissions verified?
10. Support domestic and intl. mitigation?
11. Disclosed trade association involvement?
12. Process to manage climate risks?
13. Disclosed use of product emissions?
14. Long-term emissions targets?
15. Incorporated climate change in to exec. renumeration?
16. Climate risks/opportunities in strategy?
17. Undertakes climate scenario planning?
18. Discloses an internal price of carbon?
19. Consistency between company and trade assocs.?
0% 10% 20% 100%90%30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
0
1
1
2
2
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
4
4
4
4
4
4
Governance Strategy Risk management Metrics and targets
Key: NoYes
TCFD themes
97%
79% 21%
30%
24%
38%
32%
39%
40%
44%
46%
34%
55%
43%
59%
60%
74%
69%
94%
95%
70%
76%
62%
68%
61%
60%
56%
54%
66%
45%
57%
41%
40%
26%
31%
6%
3%
5%
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16. Trends in Management Quality
By the end of the last assessment cycle in
early 2019, we had researched 272 companies
in 14 different sectors. Since then, we have
reassessed 268 of these companies and have
assessed 64 new companies, including 35 in
two new sectors (international shipping, and
chemicals), delivering a total of 332 companies
in the database as of February 2020. Four
companies assessed in the last cycle cannot
be reassessed, due to corporate restructuring.
Out of the 268 companies for which we have
trend data, 165 (62 per cent) have stayed
on the same level as their last assessment,
79 (29 per cent) have moved up at least one
level, and 24 (9 per cent) have moved down
at least one level (Figure 2.4). Therefore, we
can see that progress is being made by some
companies but the majority are standing still,
and progress is being partly offset by other
companies moving backwards.
Only two of the 68 companies that stood
on Level 4 in their previous assessment have
since attained a 4* rating (E.On and Unilever).
Of the eight companies that achieved a
4* rating a year ago, six have lost it, due
mainly to our newly introduced assessment
of consistency between company climate
change policies and the positions taken by
trade associations of which companies are a
member (Q19). The two companies to hold on
to their 4* rating are BHP Billiton and Equinor.
Movement at the top of the
Management Quality staircase
Thirty companies (11 per cent) have moved
up from Level 3 in their last assessment to
Level 4. For 12 of these companies, the move
up is because they have nominated a board
member/committee with explicit responsibility
for oversight of the company’s climate change
policy for the first time, moving climate change
into the C-suite. Four of the 30 have moved
up because they have had their Scope 1 and 2
emissions verified for the first time.
On the other hand, 13 companies (5 per cent)
have moved down from Level 4 to 3. This is
partly due to these companies disclosing less.
Three of these 13 have stopped disclosing
support for domestic and international efforts
to mitigate climate change. Two have stopped
disclosing Scope 3 emissions from use of sold
products (applicable to selected companies
with large downstream emissions only). For
some companies, similarly to the loss of 4*
status described above, the move from Level
4 to 3 is due to our introduction of Q13 on the
disclosure of membership and involvement in
trade associations engaged in climate issues:
four companies have moved down on account
of failing to satisfy this new indicator.
Movement at the bottom
of the staircase
Forty-nine companies (18 per cent) have
moved up from Levels 0, 1 or 2 since our last
assessment. Thirteen of the 22 companies
to have moved beyond Level 2 are in the
energy sector, and eight of these are in
the oil and gas sector. To move to Level 3
or beyond, a company must set emissions
reduction targets, which 21 companies did
for the first time in the last assessment cycle,
as well as publish information on their Scope 1
and 2 emissions.
“Progress is being made by some
companies but the majority are
standing still, and progress is being
partly offset by other companies
moving backwards.”
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17. State of Transition 2020: Trends in Management Quality
Figure 2.4. Trends in Management Quality between the previous and current assessments
Not
researched
64
2018
Level 4:
Strategic
assessment
77
Level 4:
Strategic
assessment
112
Level 3:
Integrating
into operational
decision making
71
Level 3:
Integrating
into operational
decision making
92
Level 2:
Building
capacity
57
Level 2:
Building
capacity
54
Level 1:
Building
capacity
58
Level 1:
Building
capacity
64
Level 0: Unaware 9 Level 0: Unaware 10
Not researched 4
Companies no longer researched4
Current average MQ level2.7
Newly researched companies64
Companies stayed at the same level
Companies moved down at least 1 level
Companies moved up at least 1 level
2019
165
24
79
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18. Carbon Performance:
alignment with the Paris
Agreement benchmarks
TPI’s assessment of companies on their
Carbon Performance consists of a quantitative
benchmarking of companies’ emissions
pathways against the international targets
and national pledges made as part of the
Paris Agreement on climate change. The key
question the Carbon Performance assessment
seeks to answer is: are companies aligned with
the Paris Agreement goals, and, if not, will they
be in the future?
Figures 2.5 and 2.6 summarise the TPI Carbon
Performance data across all sectors, classifying
whether a company is aligned with the Paris
Pledges/NDCs benchmark, with a pathway
to limit global warming to 2°C, or with a more
ambitious pathway to limit global warming to
below 2°C.
To summarise these data, we compare a
company’s emissions intensity in the last year
for which we have data with the benchmarks
in 2030 (2050 in the oil and gas sector only).
The group of companies considered to be
aligned by 2030/50 comprises:
a. Those with explicit 2030/50 emissions
reduction targets that are below the
relevant benchmark in 2030/50
b. Those with explicit targets expiring
before 2030/50, but which would bring
them below the 2030/50 benchmark
c. Those whose current performance is
already below the 2030/50 benchmark
In cases (b) and (c), we therefore assume
companies’ emissions intensity does not increase
after the last year for which we have data.
Across the database we find that companies’
emissions intensity is almost always on a
declining trend.
Since our last State of Transition Report
(published July 2019), we have added 40
Carbon Performance assessments in the
oil and gas sector and have performed our
first ever Carbon Performance assessment
of the shipping sector. We now assess 238
companies on Carbon Performance in nine
sectors: airlines; aluminium; autos; cement;
electricity; oil and gas; paper; shipping; and
steel. This is up from 160 companies in eight
sectors in July 2019. We will also be publishing
a discussion paper1
on how to assess Carbon
Performance in the diversified mining sector
later in 2020.
Our latest assessment shows that in 2030/50:
• 73 companies (31 per cent) are aligned
with the least ambitious Paris/International
Pledges benchmark. This means they have
either already achieved their 2030/50
Paris/International Pledges benchmark
emissions intensity, or they will do so
by 2030/50 based on targets they have
set. (Recall that the Paris Pledges/
NDCs benchmark are insufficient to
limit global warming to 2°C or below.)
• 43 companies (18 per cent) are
aligned with the 2°C benchmark.e
• 30 companies (13 per cent) are aligned with
the most ambitious Below 2°C benchmark.f
• 128 companies (54 per cent) are not
aligned with any of the benchmarks.
• 37 companies (15 per cent) do not
provide sufficient disclosure for TPI to
calculate their Carbon Performance.
The share of companies aligned with each
of the benchmarks is very similar to a year
ago, when 12 per cent were assessed as
being aligned with the most ambitious Below
2 Degrees benchmark, 16 per cent were
assessed as being aligned with the 2 Degrees
benchmark, and 30 per cent were assessed
e. In the airline and auto sectors, this benchmark corresponds with ‘2 Degrees (Shift-Improve)’. This assumes that transportation will be decarbonised
through a combination of shifting passengers to lower-carbon modes of transport alongside increased fuel efficient and low-carbon technology.
f. In the airline and auto sectors, this benchmark corresponds with ‘2 Degrees (High Efficiency)’. This assumes there is no shift in passengers to
lower-carbon modes of transport; instead all emissions reductions are delivered through increased fuel efficiency and low-carbon technology.
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19. State of Transition 2020: Carbon Performance – alignment with the Paris Agreement benchmarks
Figure 2.5. Carbon Performance alignment with the Paris Agreement benchmarks
(number and percentage of companies)
No disclosure
Not aligned
Paris Pledges
2 Degrees
Below 2 Degrees
37
15%
128
54%
30
13%
13
5%
30
13%
Figure 2.6. Carbon Performance alignment with the Paris Agreement benchmarks by sector
and cluster (number and percentage of companies)
Electricity
utilities
TransportEnergy Industrials and materials
100%
0%
40%
20%
60%
80%
5
25
11
5
13
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Oil gas Aluminium Cement Paper Steel Airlines Autos Shipping
3
No disclosureNot alignedParis Pledges2 DegreesBelow 2 Degrees
as being aligned with the least ambitious
Paris/International Pledges benchmark.
When disaggregating our results by sector,
we see alignment with the Paris goals most
frequently in the shipping sector, followed in
order by paper, electricity utilities and autos
(Figure 2.6).
The shipping sector stands out from its peers.
Its high rate of alignment can be attributed
to the fact that the largest publicly owned
shipping companies operate relatively young
fleets of large, fuel-efficient vessels (see Section
3, our sector focus on shipping for more
details). Such companies are unlikely to be
representative of the wider sector, however.
In electricity, 49 per cent of utilities assessed
are aligned with the Paris Pledges benchmark,
just under half of which are aligned with the
Below 2 Degrees benchmark. This partly reflects
benchmarking of European electricity utilities,
which typically have a low emissions intensity
and ambitious targets under the EU’s regulatory
regime, with global goals. Outside the EU, the
picture in the electricity sector is less positive.
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20. Management Quality and Carbon
Performance by geography
European companies lead the way on
Management Quality while Chinese
companies lag behind
The bar charts in Figure 2.7 give a breakdown
of Management Quality score by region using
individual country data (that is, from the
country in which the company is listed).
The average Management Quality score of
European companies across all assessed sectors
is 3.4 and 63 per cent of European companies
are on Level 4. There are no Level 0 companies
listed in Europe. The average Australian
company posts a Management Quality score
of 3.0, while North American companies lag
slightly behind, averaging 2.9. While the share
of companies on Level 1 is similar in Europe
and North America, Europe has a significantly
larger share of Level 3 and 4 companies.
The average Chinese company across all
assessed sectors has a Management Quality
score of just 1.1. A particularly large share of
Chinese companies sits on Level 1, just at the
point of acknowledging climate change as a
business issue for the first time.
European companies also lead the
way on Carbon Performance, driven
in part by a tough regulatory regime
The share of companies aligned with the Paris
Agreement benchmarks is higher in Europe
than it is in other geographies (see the pie
charts in Figure 2.7). Fifty-eight per cent of
European companies are aligned with the Paris
Pledges/NDCs and 36 per cent are aligned
with 2 Degrees or Below 2 Degrees. This relatively
large share of companies in alignment with
the benchmarks is partly due to the relatively
tough regulatory regime for carbon emissions
in Europe compared with other regions; this
has driven emissions intensity improvements
in electricity and autos, for instance. Forty per
cent of Japanese companies are aligned with the
Paris Pledges/NDCs benchmark, although only
10 per cent are aligned with 2 Degrees or Below
2 Degrees. Twenty-six per cent of companies
in North America are aligned with the Paris
Pledges/NDCs benchmark and 16 per cent
are aligned with 2 Degrees or Below 2 Degrees.
Disclosure of emissions is particularly lacking
in China and ‘Other Asia’, which includes India.
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21. State of Transition 2020: Management Quality and Carbon Performance by geography
Figure 2.7. Carbon Performance alignment with the Paris Agreement benchmarks and Management
Quality by geography
Other Asia
4
16
8
16
6
18
53%
10
29%
2
6%
4
12%
Latin America
3 3
0
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2
25%
5
63%
1
13%
China
3
19
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0
12
57%
7
33%
1
5%
1
5%
Europe
0
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12
22%
20
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5
9%
1
5%
Russia
0
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4
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86%
1
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Japan
0
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9
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North America
3434
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7
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7
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Africa
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Australia and
New Zealand
1 1
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7
64%
3
27%
1
9%
Carbon Performance (No. and % of companies)
Management Quality (No. of companies)
Below 2 Degrees2 DegreesParis PledgesNot alignedNo disclosure
Level 0 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4
Note: We have clustered the companies according to the following breakdown: North America (102 companies); Europe (78); Russia (8);
Japan (38); China (27); Other Asia (50); Latin America (8); Australia and New Zealand (16); Africa (5).
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22. Corporate emissions
reduction targets
A key ingredient in TPI’s Carbon Performance
assessment is companies’ quantified emissions
reduction targets. This section focuses on these
targets in more detail.
How many companies have set
quantitative targets?
Using our Management Quality data, we
find that 67 per cent of the 238 companies
we assess on Carbon Performance have set a
quantitative emissions reduction target, while
55 per cent have set a long-term quantitative
target (of more than five years in duration).
How far forward-looking
are company targets?
To help answer this question, we calculate
the average target year for all TPI-assessed
companies for which we could calculate
Carbon Performance (Figure 2.8). In 2019,
the average target year across all companies
was 2027. At the sector level, electricity
utilities are the most forward-looking, with
an average target year of 2033, while airlines
are the least forward-looking, with an average
target year of 2020.g
Among the cluster of
industrial/materials sectors, the average target
year ranges from 2024 (in the aluminium
sector) to 2026 (steel). Among the cluster of
transport sectors there is more variance, with
the average target year ranging from 2020
in airlines to 2030 in shipping. Despite the
significance of emissions from the oil and gas
industry to climate change and the need to set
out a long-term pathway to decarbonisation,
the average target year in oil and gas is 2023.
Figure 2.8 also shows trends over the last three
TPI assessment cycles in the average target
year. We would expect the average target year
to advance from one assessment cycle to the
next as a matter of course. In that sense the
‘run rate’ is a one-year increase in the average
target year, each year we reassess a sector.
At the sector levelh
the average target year
has advanced for all sectors except airlines.
We see a particularly large jump in steel, where
the average target year has recently moved
out from 2018 to 2026, reflecting a number of
leading steel makers setting long-term targets
for the first time.
Are companies on track to hit
their targets?
To help answer this question, we compare
company targets with recent trends in
their historical emissions. We do this in Figure
2.9 for all companies assessed on Carbon
Performance that have also set a long-term
target extending to at least 2025. To make
the comparison, we first measure by how
much these companies reduced their emissions
intensity between 2014 and 2018. We then
calculate how much further they must reduce
their emissions intensity to hit their targets.
The average annual reduction rate for all
companies with a 2025 target was 2.23
per cent between 2014 and 2018, while
the reduction rate for all companies with
historical data was 1.91 per cent, meaning
that companies with targets have reduced
emissions relatively more than companies
without targets. Compared with other sectors,
paper producers and electricity utilities reduced
their emissions intensity the most between
2014 and 2018. In both of these sectors,
continuing on the same pathway would more
than deliver companies’ 2025 targets. In autos
and shipping, on average companies reduced
their emissions intensity between 2014 and
2018, but delivering on long-term targets
will require an increase in the annual rate
of reduction. Steel, cement and oil and gas
producers did not reduce their emissions
intensity between 2014 and 2018. Steel and
cement producers’ intensity marginally
increased, in fact. Hitting long-term targets
will require these sectors to significantly step
up their efforts.
g. We deem a number of company targets in the airline sector ineligible for Carbon Performance assessment because they target net emissions
reductions and are insufficiently clear on how much the airlines in question will reduce their own, gross, emissions. See Dietz et al. (2019).2
h. Comparing how the average target year changes across all sectors is not meaningful here as we assess more sectors in 2019 than in 2017 and 2018.
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State of Transition 2020: Corporate emissions reduction targets
Figure 2.8. Average year of company targets by sector over the last three TPI assessment cycles
Oil gas
Electricity utilities
Airlines
Autos
Aluminium
Shipping
Cement
Paper
Steel
2020 2025 2030
Average target year Assessment
cycle
2017
2018
2019
Figure 2.9. Historical rates of reduction of emissions intensity (‘actual reduction’) compared with
required rates of reduction to meet companies’ own emission reduction commitments extending
to 2025 (‘committed reduction’)
Oil gas
Electricity utilities
Autos
Shipping
Cement
Paper
Steel
0 1-1-2-3-4
Annual average rate of emissions reduction (%)
Actual reduction in emissions intensity, 2014–18
Committed reduction in emissions intensity, 2018–25
Note: For some companies
the 2025 target is an
interpolation between their
current emissions intensity
and their longer-term target
(e.g. 2030 target). Airlines
and aluminium are excluded
because there are too few
data points by 2025.
Note: The oil and gas and shipping
sectors have been assessed once
by TPI, airlines and aluminium
assessed twice, and electricity
utilities, autos, cement, paper
and steel three times.
Are company targets aligned with
the Paris Agreement goals?
Comparing companies’ own targeted
reduction rates with the rates they
accomplished historically tells us something
about companies’ ambitions but it does
not tell us whether or not the targets will
bring companies into alignment with the
Paris Agreement goals. This is the purpose
of our Carbon Performance assessment.
Of the 89 assessed companies with a target
extending to 2025 or beyond, 51 (57 per cent)
are projected to be aligned with the Paris
Pledges. Only 33 companies (37 per cent) will
be aligned with 2 Degrees and only 28 (31 per
cent) will be aligned with Below 2 Degrees.
24. Sector focus: Shipping3
In terms of carbon emissions intensity, the
largest publicly owned international shipping
companies have surprisingly clean operations.
Sixty-one per cent are already aligned with the
Below 2 Degrees benchmark. However, these
companies are unlikely to be representative
of the sector as a whole.
TPI published its first assessment of
international shipping in December 2019,
showing that the sector makes a significant
and growing contribution to climate change
– currently accounting for over 2 per cent of
global CO2
emissions.3
Like aviation, shipping
is considered to be one of the sectors in which
emissions abatement is harder to achieve than
in others, mainly due to the high cost of and
lack of availability of low-carbon technologies,
but also due to the fragmented structure
of the industry.4
We assessed the Management Quality and
Carbon Performance of the international
freight shipping sector’s 13 largest publicly
owned companies, selected on the basis
of market capitalisation.
Management Quality
Overall, the international shipping sector
performs poorly on Management Quality
(Figure 3.1). The average Management
Quality score of the companies assessed
is 1.9, putting the average company just
below Level 2, building capacity. This is lower
than TPI’s other transport sectors: autos
and airlines have average scores of 3 and 2.6
respectively. In fact, international shipping,
along with coal mining, is the joint-worst
performing sector on Management Quality
in the TPI database at present.
Nearly half of the shipping companies
we assessed fail to explicitly recognise the
business risks and opportunities presented
by climate change, and almost 40 per cent
fail to disclose their Scope 1 and 2 emissions.
Only 15 per cent of companies have allocated
board responsibility for climate change.
Carbon Performance
In contrast to Management Quality, the
Carbon Performance of the largest publicly
owned companies in international shipping
is relatively good, with the majority already
aligned with our most ambitious Below 2
Degrees benchmark for 2030 (Figure 3.2).
In fact, five of the 13 companies have set long-
term targets stretching to 2050, most of which
are aligned with –or are more ambitious than
–the International Maritime Organization (IMO)
industry target for that date. In addition, one
company, A.P. Moller-Maersk, has set a net zero
CO2
emissions target for 2050.i
The level of alignment with the TPI benchmarks
is significantly higher in shipping than in
any other TPI sector. It is important to note,
however, that this strong Carbon Performance
is unlikely to be representative of the shipping
sector as a whole, for two reasons:
1. Company size – Our research focuses on
the largest publicly owned companies
engaged in international freight shipping.
Large companies tend to operate
newer, larger vessels, which have lower
emissions intensities than smaller vessels.
This is particularly true of container
shipping: the emissions intensity of the
largest containerships is less than half
that of the smallest containerships.5
2. Fleet composition –The emissions intensity
of a shipping company is determined
not only by its emission mitigation efforts,
but also by the composition of its fleet.
For example, this is because emissions
intensity varies widely by vessel type.
A final point to note is that there are well
recognised data quality issues in the shipping
sector, at both an industry and a company
level. We would expect the quality and
consistency of emissions data to improve in the
future, particularly with the introduction of the
IMO’s new mandatory Data Collection System
and the expected publication of the Fourth IMO
Greenhouse Gas Study later in 2020.
i. The company states that its aim is to achieve net zero emissions from its own operations, through the use of alternative fuels, rather than
by purchasing carbon offsets from other sectors. This contrasts with the net zero targets set by several airlines, which are expected to be met
in part through carbon offsetting.
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25. State of Transition 2020: Sector Focus –Shipping
Figure 3.1. Management Quality level of international shipping companies
Level 1
Awareness
5 companies: 39%
COSCO Shipping Energy
Evergreen Marine
Great Eastern Shipping
Hapag-Lloyd
MISC
Level 2
Building capacity
3 companies: 23%
COSCO Shipping Holdings
U-Ming Marine Transport
Wan Hai Lines
Level 3
Integrated into
operational
decision-making
2 companies: 15%
AP Moller - Maersk
Nippon Yusen
Level 4
Strategic assessment
2 companies: 15%
Mitsui OSK Lines
Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha
Level 0
Unaware
1 company: 8%
Quatar Gas Transport Co
(Nakilat)
Figure 3.2. Alignment of shipping companies’ Carbon Performance with Paris benchmarks, 2014–30
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
2014 2015 20302016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029
MOL
COSCO Shipping Energy
COSCO Shipping Holdings AP Moller – Maersk
Evergreen MarineK LineNYK Line Wan Hai
Hapang – Lloyd U – Ming
Reported Targeted
Year
International
Pledges
2 Degrees
Below
2 Degrees
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26. Figure 4.1. Energy companies with net-zero targets (February 2020*)
Emerging issues:
corporate net zero
targets and offsetting
4
Climate science tells us that net CO2
emissions
must fall to zero if global temperatures
are to stop increasing. According to the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC), limiting global warming to 1.5°C
requires CO2
emissions to reach net zero
as early as 2050, if not before.
Corporate net zero targets
Over the last year, the race to net zero has
been heating up, with many countries setting
net zero targets and worried investors engaging
with companies to do the same. As a result,
companies are beginning to act. In August
2019, TPI collaborated with the Oxford Martin
School to research the net zero positions of
the 132 companies in the TPI-assessed energy
sector6
. We found 13 companies with net
zero targets, although the scope of company
emissions covered by these targets varied and
was usually much less than 100 per cent of
lifecycle emissions (Scope 1 to 3).
We have updated that assessment for this
State of Transition Report and now find 21
energy companies with net zero targets, an
increase of over 60 per cent in just six months
(see Figure 4.1)j
. Three of these companies are
in coal mining, four are oil and gas producers,
and the remaining 14 are in the electricity
sector. Examples of companies outside the
energy sector with net zero targets include
the airlines EasyJet, IAG and Qantas, shipping
company A.P. Moller-Maersk, auto manufacturer
Volkswagen, aluminium company Norsk Hydro,
cement company HeidelbergCement, and steel
makers ThyssenKrupp and SSAB.
The role of offsetting in delivering net
zero targets
With net zero targets often comes a reliance, to
a greater or lesser extent, on offsetting: that is,
purchasing emissions reductions from beyond
companies’ boundaries (see Figure 4.2). Several
of the energy companies we surveyed explicitly
BHP Billiton
South 32
Vale
Coalmining
CEZ
DTE
DUKE
E.On
EDF
Endesa
Enel
Iberdrola
National Grid
Orsted
Public Svc Enterprise Group
RWE
Vistra
XCEL Energy
Electricityutilities
BP
Eni
Cenovus Energy
Repsol
Oilgas
j. One company, Exxaro Resources, has withdrawn its net zero target from its public disclosures.
*Note: Includes
announcements up
to 14 February 2020
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27. State of Transition 2020: Emerging issues
Figure 4.2. Companies’ options to reach net zero*
Net-zero target
Internal options: External options:
Own reduction of
regulated emissions
Own reduction of
non-regulated emissions
Own negative emissions
Purchased regulated
emissions certificates
Purchased voluntary
emissions certificates
(Reductions or negative emissions)
Avoided emissions*
mention offsetting as part of their strategy
to meet their net zero targets. Airlines are
planning to make substantial use of offsetting
to meet their targets too, whether they be net
zero targets, or targets for positive emissions.
Investors might usefully ask what the
costs and risks of offsets are compared to
companies’ own emissions reductions, and
whether or not they will help in achieving
the goals of the Paris Agreement.
The voluntary carbon market
Currently companies can purchase offsets
from the voluntary carbon market, as well as
in compliance markets such as the EU Emissions
Trading System. The voluntary carbon market is
surging as a consequence of these new sources
of demand. In 2018 it was worth almost US$300
million, nearly double the market’s 2017 value.8
Voluntariness comes with challenges.
While compliance markets follow enforceable
rules, offsets provided in voluntary markets
come in many shapes and sizes, some of
which have proven unreliable, not providing
demonstrable emissions reductions.9
Offset
prices can range from under $0.10 to just over
$70 per tonne of CO2
equivalent (tCO2
e).10
A lot of the price difference is driven by project
type (e.g. forestry versus renewables), location,
associated co-benefits, and order size (large
orders typically demand big discounts). The
average price in 2018 was around $3.50/
tCO2
e. As a point of comparison, the price
of an allowance in the EU ETS has recently
been around $27/tCO2
e, while the High-Level
Commission on Carbon Prices says current
prices should be $40–80/tCO2
e worldwide in
order to deliver the Paris Agreement goals.11
Part
of the discrepancy reflects the fact that the size
of the market remains small. As demand grows,
we would expect prices to do the same. But
the difference may also partly reflect concerns
about the reliability of very cheap offsets in the
voluntary market at present.
Offset risks
In principle, offsetting is a cost-effective
strategy to meet the Paris Agreement goals.
Without it, the overall cost will be much higher.
However, net zero strategies relying heavily
on offsets might come with unanticipated
risks. There is offset price risk, especially if many
firms simultaneously believe they will be able
to purchase large quantities of cheap offsets in
the market. Something has to give. Furthermore,
substantial growth in the market may lead to
more regulation, reducing supply and increasing
transaction costs, which could push prices
up further. Lastly, companies knowingly or
unknowingly buying low-quality offsets expose
themselves to reputational risk. Investors should
monitor companies’ offset strategies closely and
demand greater disclosure.
*Note: Avoided emissions are defined as “emission reductions that occur outside of a product’s life cycle or value chain,
but as a result of the use of that product”.7
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28. Figure 5.1. Key sectoral engagement recommendations
Key sectoral opportunities
for improvement
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We have identified what we think should be the leading engagement priorities for investors
in each of our assessed sectors, based on our analysis of Management Quality and Carbon
Performance. These are shown in Figure 5.1.
Investors’ leading engagement priorities:
based on analysis of Management Quality
and Carbon Performance in each sector
Engage car makers to set long-term
emissions targets, showing how
innovation/investment strategies
translate into alignment with the Paris
temperature goals
Engage more oil and gas companies
to disclose long-term targets,
which cover emissions from use
of sold products
Engage laggard coal mining
companies to start taking
climate change seriously
Ensure all cement producers
disclose their emissions intensity
according to the Cement
Sustainability Initiative
Engage paper producers
to increase verification
of operational emissions
in the sector
Engage airlines to provide
more disclosure on proposed
use of offsets to meet net
emissions targets
Engage shipping companies
to assign boardroom responsibility
for climate change
Lobby governments
outside the EU to set more
ambitious climate goals for
their electricity sectors
Engage steel makers
to accelerate carbon intensity
improvements
Engage aluminium producers to
fully integrate climate change into
operational decision-making
Engage the chemical sector
to disclose useful measures
of Carbon Performance
AI
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29. State of Transition 2020: Implications for investors
Implications for investors6
In reflecting on the data and the analysis
presented in our 2019 State of Transition Report,
we argued that investors should:
• Require companies to (a) publish a policy
commitment to act on climate change, (b)
publish their Scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse
gas emissions, in line with the relevant
TPI performance metrics, on an annual
basis, and (c) set short- and long-term
emissions reduction targets, again using
the relevant TPI performance metrics.
• Encourage companies to take a strategic
approach to climate change, for instance
by disclosing the internal carbon price
that informs their investment and capital
expenditure decisions, and publishing
the results of the climate scenario
analysis that they have conducted.
• Encourage companies that are not expected
to be aligned with a 2°C benchmark by
2030 to set targets that would align, and
to publish action plans explaining how
they intend to deliver on these targets.
This 2020 State of Transition report tells
us that there has been progress. For those
companies that have been covered by the TPI
for more than one research cycle we see that:
• The number of companies that report
on their operational greenhouse gas
emissions in the last three years has
increased from 74 to 76 per cent.
• The number of companies that report
on their short- and long-term emissions
reduction targets using the relevant
TPI sector Carbon Performance metric
has increased from 51 to 55 per cent.
• The number of companies disclosing
the internal carbon price that
informs their investment and capital
expenditure decisions has almost
doubled from 16 to 31 per cent.
• The number of companies that have
conducted and published the results
of climate scenario analysis has
increased from 14 to 26 per cent.
• The number of companies that have set
quantified emissions reductions targets
has increased from 59 to 68 per cent.
While we acknowledge the progress that
has been made and the contribution that has
been made by investors through initiatives such
as Climate Action 100+, it is clear that there
is a long way to go. Thirty-eight per cent of the
companies covered are on levels 0–2 and have
yet to do more than the bare minimum – adopt
a climate change policy, report on Scope 1 and
2 emissions, set any sort of target to reduce
their emissions – that would be expected of
a company in a high impact sector. Of equal
concern, just 31 per cent of the companies
covered by our research are or will be aligned
with the Paris Agreement goals by 2030/50,
and just 18 per cent will be aligned with a 2°C
benchmark by this time.
Why investors will be key actors in
catalysing the low-carbon transition
The scale of the challenge is clear but so too
is the fact that 2019 marked a step change
in investor effort on climate change. There are
three reasons to think that investors can and
will be increasingly important in catalysing the
transition to a low-carbon economy.
First, through initiatives such as Climate
Action 100+ (CA100+), investors have
developed a model of collective action
that drives ambitious change in company
practice and performance. In addition
to the general trends presented in this
report, we have seen companies such as
Repsol and Maersk committed to net zero
carbon targets by 2050 and Shell agreeing
a joint position with investors to establish
an engagement framework that supports
the transition of its business to substantially
reduce its emissions intensity.
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30. Second, we have evidence that it is
economically feasible for companies to be
aligned with the goals of keeping global
temperature rise below 2 or even 1.5°C
above pre-industrial levels. As noted above,
our research shows that 18 per cent of large
publicly traded companies are now expected
to be at least aligned with, if not go beyond,
a 2°C pathway by 2030/50. Movement is
especially pronounced in the autos sector.
While in July 2019 29 per cent of companies
had a target in line with the Paris/International
pledges benchmarks, in February 2020 it was
41 per cent.
Third, investors are making strong
commitments to action. At the UN Climate
Summit in December 2019 (COP 25), the
Principles for Responsible Investment and the
UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative
launched the UN-convened Net-Zero Asset
Owner Alliance. The Alliance, which currently
represents nearly US$4 trillion in Assets Under
Management, is capturing commitments by
asset owners to align portfolios with a 1.5°C
scenario. In parallel, the Institutional Investors
Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) Paris Aligned
Investment Initiative – jointly chaired by APG
of the Netherlands and the Church of England
Pensions Board and supported by more than
60 major institutional investors with over
€13 trillion in Assets Under Management – is
developing a practical and useable framework
for investors to be able to understand what it
would mean for a pension fund to align with
the goals of the Paris Agreement. The likely
consequence of these two initiatives is that
more asset owners will make commitments to
net zero or to aligning with the 1.5°C scenario,
thereby reinforcing the engagement requests
being made by CA100+ and driving demand for
tools, metrics and indices that enable investors
to assess and report on their performance.
A new form of partnership
Returning to a core theme of this report,
our concluding reflection is that responding
to climate change requires a new form of
partnership. It requires investors, companies,
regulators, civil society and other actors to
work together to develop and then deliver the
systemic, economy-wide changes needed for
us to successfully transition to a low-carbon
economy and to adapt effectively to the
physical impacts of climate change. This report
shows that the world is making progress and
that investors are already playing an important
role. However, that progress needs to be
accelerated and investors will be challenged
to do much, much more.
Our mission is to enable asset owners
to make informed judgements about
how companies with the biggest impact
on climate change are adapting their
business models to prepare for the
transition to a low-carbon economy.
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34. Level 0: Unaware of (or not Acknowledging) Climate Change as a Business Issue
Question 1 Does the company acknowledge climate change as a significant issue
for the business?
[If the company does not acknowledge climate change as a significant
issue for the business, it is placed on Level 0]
Notes Companies are assessed as Yes if they:
• Recognise climate change as a relevant risk and/
or opportunity for the business (Q2); or
• Have a policy or an equivalent statement committing
them to take action on climate change (Q3); or
• Have set greenhouse gas emission reduction targets (Q4); or
• Have published information on their operational
greenhouse gas emissions (Q5).
Level 1: Acknowledging Climate Change as a Business Issue
Question 2 Does the company recognise climate change as a relevant risk
and/or opportunity for the business?
Notes Companies are assessed as Yes if they demonstrate recognition
of climate change as a relevant risk and/or opportunity to the
business, or if they have incorporated at least two of the following,
more advanced management practices, namely they:
• Have a process to manage climate-related risks (Q12);
• Have set long-term quantitative targets for reducing
their greenhouse gas emissions (Q14);
• Incorporate climate change performance into
remuneration for senior executives (Q15);
• Incorporate climate change risks and
opportunities in their strategy (Q16);
• Undertake climate scenario planning (Q17);
• Disclose an internal price of carbon (Q18);
• Ensure consistency between their climate change
policies and the positions taken by trade associations
of which they are members (Q19).
Question 3 Does the company have a policy (or equivalent) commitment
to action on climate change?
Notes Companies are assessed as Yes if they have a published policy or
commitment statement on climate change that commits them to
addressing the issue, or to reducing or avoiding their impact on climate
change (e.g. to reduce emissions or improve their energy efficiency).
Appendix 1: TPI Management Quality indicators
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Level 2: Building Capacity
Question 4 Has the company set greenhouse gas emission reduction targets?
Notes Companies are assessed as Yes if they have greenhouse gas emissions
reduction targets. These targets may cover Scopes 1, 2 and/or 3, and they
may be quantified or unquantified.
This question is less demanding than Questions 7 and 13, which require
companies to have set quantified targets and for those quantified targets
to be long-term, respectively. Companies that are assessed as Yes on
Question 7, or Yes on Questions 7 and 13, are automatically assessed
as Yes on Question 4.
Question 5 Has the company published information on its operational (Scope 1
and 2) greenhouse gas emissions?
Notes Companies are assessed as Yes if they report on their Scope 1 and 2, or their
Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions. Companies that only report Scope 1 emissions
are assessed as No.
Level 3: Integrating into Operational Decision-Making
Question 6 Has the company nominated a board member or board
committee with explicit responsibility for oversight of the climate
change policy?
Notes Companies are assessed as Yes if they provide evidence of clear board or
board committee oversight of climate change, or if they have a named
individual/position responsible for climate change at board level.
Question 7 Has the company set quantitative targets for reducing its greenhouse
gas emissions?
Notes Companies are assessed as Yes if they have set quantified targets to reduce
greenhouse emissions in relative or absolute terms (Scopes 1, 2 and/or 3).
This question is more demanding than Question 4, as companies must
have set quantitative targets to reduce emissions. This question differs from
Question 13, which asks whether companies have set quantified targets for
reducing greenhouse gases over the long term (i.e. targets that are more
than 5 years in duration). Companies that are assessed as Yes on Question
13 are automatically assessed as Yes on this question.
Question 8 Does the company report on Scope 3 emissions?
Notes Companies are assessed as Yes if they report on Scope 3 emissions
separately, either in total or in one or more categories, or if they provide
a total for Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions.
Question 9 Has the company had its operational (Scope 1 and/or 2) greenhouse
gas emissions data verified?
Notes Companies are assessed as Yes if their operational greenhouse gas
emissions have been independently verified by a third party, or if they
state the international assurance standard they have used and the
level of assurance.
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36. Question 10 Does the company support domestic and international efforts
to mitigate climate change?
Notes Companies are assessed as Yes if they demonstrate support for mitigating
climate change through membership of business associations that are
supportive, and if they have a clear company position on public policy
and regulation.
Question 11 Does the company disclose its membership and involvement in trade
associations engaged in climate issues?
Notes Companies are assessed as Yes if they have disclosed their memberships of
trade associations that engage on climate-related issues, and if they have
disclosed their involvement in these trade associations.
Question 12 Does the company have a process to manage climate-related risks?
Notes Companies are assessed as Yes if they have integrated climate change
into multi-disciplinary company-wide risk management, or if they have
a specific climate-related risk management process.
Question 13* Does the company disclose materially important Scope 3 emissions?
*applicable to some sectors only
Notes Scope 3 emissions are diverse and many companies only disclose in a
sub-set of categories. In some sectors, particular categories of Scope 3
emissions are materially important, in the sense of being a large share of
lifecycle emissions. In these sectors, we require companies to specifically
disclose emissions in the relevant category or categories.
For example, in automobile manufacturing, coal mining, and oil and gas
production, we ask: does the company disclose Scope 3 emissions from
the use of sold products?
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Question 17 Does the company undertake climate scenario planning?
Notes Companies are assessed as Yes if they mention the 2 degrees scenario
in relation to business planning or confirm they have conducted climate
related scenario analysis, and if they describe the business impact of one
or more climate scenario analysis.
Question 18 Does the company disclose an internal price of carbon?
Notes Companies are assessed as Yes if they have and disclose their internal
carbon price.
Question 19 Does the company ensure consistency between its climate change
policy and the positions taken by trade associations of which it is
a member?
Notes Companies are assessed as Yes if they have a stated policy or commitment
to ensure consistency between their climate change policy and the position
taken by the trade associations of which they are members, and for
responding appropriately in those instances where the trade association’s
position is significantly weaker than or contradicts that of the company.
Level 4: Strategic Assessment
Question 14 Has the company set long-term quantitative targets for reducing
its greenhouse gas emissions?
Notes Companies are assessed as Yes if they have set quantified, long-term
targets (i.e. more than 5 Years in duration) to reduce greenhouse emissions
in relative or absolute terms (Scopes 1, 2 and/or 3).
This question is more demanding than Question 7, as the targets must not
only be quantitative, they must also be long-term.
Question 15 Does the company’s remuneration for senior executives incorporate
climate change performance?
Notes Companies are assessed as Yes if executive remuneration incorporates
climate change performance.
Question 16 Does the company incorporate climate change risks and opportunities
in their strategy?
Notes Companies are assessed as Yes if they detail how they incorporate climate
change risks and opportunities in their strategy (mitigation, new products,
RD, etc.), and if they disclose the impact of climate change risks and
opportunities on financial planning (OPEX, CAPEX, MA, debt).
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