When climate risk becomes investment risk: Raising the call for mandatory carbon emissions disclosure

Tracking emissions data key step to assessing risks and benefits

Climate change is becoming an observable reality. Noticeably milder winters and hotter summers throughout Europe, recent wildfires in California and Australia, and more frequent droughts in Africa are all hard-to-escape manifestations of global warming.

As the world's population and the regulators start waking up to these warnings, climate risk becomes investment risk.  With tightening regulatory, consumer, and investor pressure, greenhouse gas emissions become a liability and a risk in a company's future performance. As the realisation grows that in the coming decades our economy will experience changes in adapting to this new reality, much of the assets currently being used by today's emitters can become stranded - that is, prematurely depreciated and ultimately worthless. Sustainable and ESG Investment Awards finalist interview...