What a week!
Casey Aspin | 2 June 2017
Archive, Blog & Articles
As Dickens said, the best of times, the worst of times. A whopping 62% of Exxon shareholders told the company to disclose its exposure to climate... continue reading
Publications
The Vote Is In
Casey Aspin | 24 May 2017
Archive, Blog & Articles
Nearly half of the shareholders at Southern Company have a message for the Atlanta-based gas and electric utility company: Clean up your act! At Wednesday’s annual... continue reading
Climate Science 101: Turning off the Tap
Casey Aspin | 19 May 2017
Blog & Articles
By Preventable Surprises Board Member Rich Pancost The challenges arising from growing carbon dioxide concentrations and climate disruption are clear to scientists and to the nearly... continue reading
A Victory in the Votes vs. Values Battle
Casey Aspin | 17 May 2017
Archive, Blog & Articles
The many organisations working to force utilities to confront climate change risk scored a major victory this week, when 56.8% of shareholders at PPL Corp. voted in... continue reading
Preventable Surprises strongly welcomes CalPERS climate policy & Mission 2020
Raj Thamotheram | 24 April 2017
Blog & Articles
Preventable Surprises warmly welcomes the focus CalPERS is giving to the issue of climate disruption as a risk to mainstream investors . We particularly welcome the... continue reading
Helping the Missing60 see the light
Casey Aspin | 20 April 2017
Blog & Articles, Climate disruption
Investment firms that voted their clients’ proxies to increase transparency around climate risk–then reversed course last year when management at Exxon and Chevron opposed such measures–found... continue reading
A Road to Damascus Moment
Casey Aspin | 12 April 2017
Blog & Articles
By Casey Aspin As AGM season approaches, so does the road to Damascus moment for asset managers that participated in the Task Force on Climate-related Financial... continue reading
Systemic Risk
Raj Thamotheram | 27 March 2017
Our events, Videos
While informed professionals in many sectors see climate risk as one of the biggest risks the world faces, most investment professionals give it a much lower... continue reading
The Business of Bees
Raj Thamotheram | 27 March 2017
Biodiversity loss, Books
The Business of Bees is a book providing an account of diminishing bee populations from an interdisciplinary perspective. It explores the role of corporate responsibility and governance as... continue reading