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Alastair Marsh ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

@alastairjmarsh

Journalist (@business @climate) covering #ESG & #ClimateChange. Keeping an eye on @crypto @markets. DM for tips on greenwashing etc. Views mine. Born 343 ppm.

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"If Kariba shuts down... This would render meaningless the already-shaky claims corporations have made based on these credits." bloomberg.com/news/articles/โ€ฆ Bloomberg Green

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Don't forget the miners, says BlackRock: โ€œIf youโ€™re focused on sustainability, if youโ€™re focused on the energy transition, donโ€™t overlook this area. Thereโ€™s a huge value opportunity.โ€ bloomberg.com/news/articles/โ€ฆ

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The curious maths underpinning financed emissions metrics is such that banks can report a reduction in their CO2 numbers without actually having reduced lending to carbon-intensive clients or having helped/persuaded those clients to decarbonize. bloomberg.com/news/articles/โ€ฆ Bloomberg Green

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The UAE has agreed to retain a smaller portion of the profits generated by the $30 billion Alterra venture ( which has partnered with BlackRock, TPG and Brookfield) in an effort to lure more private money into climate finance deals. bloomberg.com/news/articles/โ€ฆ Bloomberg Green

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For investors struggling to get a clear read on how banks are delivering on their net-zero pledges, changes to climate scenarios made necessary by shifting realities may further complicate the picture. bloomberg.com/news/articles/โ€ฆ Bloomberg Green

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In the $1.5 trillion market for sustainability-linked loans, corporate clients are starting to walk away. bloomberg.com/news/articles/โ€ฆ With Greg Ritchie for Bloomberg

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Scoop: UBS is set to scrap a planned phaseout of coal financing that Credit Suisse had backed, as the global wealth manager prepares to unveil how the merged bank will tackle climate change: bloomberg.com/news/articles/โ€ฆ Bloomberg Green Bloomberg

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If the world is on course for 2.8C of warming, is it fair, or even realistic, to expect banks to align their loan books and financing activities with 1.5C? Thatโ€™s the question a frustrated UBS banker put to regulators: bloomberg.com/news/features/โ€ฆ for Bloomberg with Natasha White

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in which Alastair Marsh ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ tells me: "Banks gonna bank." our episode, on the finance sector's struggles to live up to their climate promises, out today: omny.fm/shows/the-big-โ€ฆ

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Climate scoop: US financial regulators led by the Federal Reserve have been working for months to thwart a push to make climate risk a focus of global financial regulation Bloomberg Bloomberg Green bloomberg.com/news/articles/โ€ฆ

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When the board of #SBTi said corporates could use carbon credits to offset Scope 3 emissions, the groupโ€™s own communications team thought the website had been hacked and temporarily took the statement down! ๐Ÿ˜‚ bloomberg.com/news/articles/โ€ฆ via Bloomberg Green

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โ€œHot People Hate Wall Streetโ€ and they seem to particularly hate #Citi. Citi is to be the centrepiece of what climate activists are calling the 'Summer of Heat' on US banks, seeking to disrupt operations in protest at fossil fuel finance. bloomberg.com/news/articles/โ€ฆ

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For more than a year, Annie Lee and I have been investigating the dirty, deadly Indonesian nickel industry -- and its supply-chain connections to Tesla, GM, Ford, Hyundai and every other EV manufacturer you can think of. I hope you will read and share. bloomberg.com/features/2024-โ€ฆ

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#SBTI's technical council has spoken, warning of lasting reputational damage from the embrace of carbon offsets. Scoop here: bloomberg.com/news/articles/โ€ฆ Bloomberg Green