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Input: Prior to submission to the Board of Directors for final approval, investment decisions are reviewed by the EBRD Investment Committee (OpsCom). OpsCom is chaired by the First Vice President and Head of Client Services Group and includes representatives of all relevant functions involved in the business activity, including Banking, Legal, Risk Management, and the Economics, Policy and Governance team looking after the mandated objectives of the EBRD.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: We meet the financing needs of our customers with a broad and modern product range. The focus of the portfolio is on traditional owner-occupied home financing and the financing of real estate capital investments (residential mortgage loans and investment properties with a total EaD of €61bn). We provide our business customers with credit in the form of individual loans with a volume of €14bn. In addition, we meet our customers’ day-to-day demand for credit with consumer loans (consumer and instalment loans, credit cards to a total of €10bn).
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In addition, a dedicated team within Group Risk Management analyses Emerging Risks (oft en related to long term Environmental, Social, and Governance issues) via a specifi c framework, tools and local network in order to monitor their materiality and manage their potential impact on the AXA Group in the next 5 to 10 years. Regular reviews and in-depth analyses of emerging risk topics are shared with the Group-wide Emerging Risks community.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In the short term, changes in client behaviour and investor preferences for less carbon-intensive assets and products may result in market, reputational or legal risks for the group. The market risk arises from changes in asset prices and market spreads given investor capital allocation changes. Reputational or legal risks may arise if clients or funders perceive the group’s operational and financing activities to be aggravating climate change.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In April 2018, the Group successfully completed a refinancing to convert floating to fixed debt and to extend the debt maturity out to November 2025. The Group issued a US$300 million bond with a fixed interest rate of 6.625%, which was swapped back to sterling upon issuance at an effective interest rate of 5%. The proceeds of the new issue were used to repay in full the £200 million floating rate bond issued in 2017 which had a maturity of 2022.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The two companies and the relevant local authorities had already created 1,088 car-pooling spaces between 2014 and 2018. They will step up their efforts in this area with a motorway investment plan that was approved by the French government in early November 2018. APRR has undertaken to create 1,700 car-pooling spaces at 27 sites by 2021, investing a total of €10.6 million, while AREA will invest €1.7 million to create 250 spaces at five sites in the same timeframe.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Finally, as one of the largest financiers of energy in the world, we pledged to facilitate $200 billion in clean financing through 2025. Through this commitment, JPMorgan Chase will help scale the impact of sustainability efforts among more than 20,000 corporate and investor clients in the U.S. and across the world.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: A top risk is defined as having: (i) the potential to have a material impact, across a business area or geographical area, on the financial results, reputation or sustainability of the Group; (ii) the potential of occurring in the near future.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Strategy and objectives In relation to the risks and opportunities described above, Eni has defined a path to decarbonization and pursues a clear and well-defined climate strategy, integrated with its business model, which is based on the following drivers: - reduction in direct GHG emissions; from 2014 to 2017 the actions taken have enabled the GHG emission intensity index of the upstream sector to be reduced by 15%; the goal is to reduce this rate by 43% by 2025 compared to 2014 through projects to eliminate process flaring, reduce fugitive emissions of methane (for the upstream segment, by 80% in 2025 compared to 2014) and energy efficiency projects; in total the investments in support of these targets add up to an expenditure of about €0.6 billion in 2018-2021, at 100% and with reference only to upstream operated activities;
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Input: Climate change may cause extreme weather events that disrupt operations at one or more of our primary locations, which may negatively affect our ability to service and interact with our clients, and also may adversely affect the value of our investments, including our real estate investments. Climate change may also have a negative impact on the financial condition of our clients, which may decrease revenues from those clients and increase the credit risk associated with loans and other credit exposures to those clients. Additionally, our reputation may be damaged as a result of our involvement, or our clients’ involvement, in certain industries or projects associated with climate change.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In Singapore, we have begun proactive engagement and advocating collaboration with the National Climate Change Secretariat and Centre for Liveable Cities as part of 100 Resilient Cities, and lead business engagement and roundtables to share and discuss longer term climate risks.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The enterprise risks were categorized as an external, operational or strategic risk. External risks emerge from outside the organization, operational risks arise from within the organization, and strategic risks are associated with our strategic initiatives. The identified risks can significantly affect the Association’s finance, relevancy and reputation if mitigations are not in place.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: IAG is exposed to multiple risks relating to its businesses and pursuit of its strategic objectives. The risks noted below are not exhaustive, but outline the material risks faced by the Group as identified in the RMS: strategic risk – the risk that internal or external factors compromise our ability to execute our strategic objectives or our strategy;
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In order to address stakeholder concerns, we will only provide financing to clients who have projects to reduce materially their overall emissions intensity, and a plan for the company as a whole to have lower emissions intensity than the level of the median global oil producer by the end of the decade. This approach takes into consideration the just transition for the workforce and communities currently dependent on the oil sands industry in Canada. We have been in deep discussions with the government of Canada about this and believe that this position, which it supports, is the right position to adopt and the best way of enabling our clients which have operations in the oil sands to participate in transition.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: We aim to promote equal opportunities by inspiring underrepresented groups to take up STEM fields by exposing them to aviation employment options and opportunities. By fueling the pipeline today through our support of educational initiatives and STEM programs, we will help to ensure more diverse perspectives in the hangars and boardrooms of the future.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: These exercises highlight that not enough data are available for a bottom-up approach, assessing the vulnerabilities specific to Group clients and incorporating their response and remediation functions on a forward-looking basis.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: MARKE T: As the carbon debate intensifies, cement and concrete could be challenged by our customers as the building material of first choice because of perceived high embodied CO2. In the long term, should regulatory frameworks fail to incentivize consumption of low-carbon products, customers may be unwilling to pay for additional costs and the cement sector’s low-carbon roadmap might be compromised.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: - green business development through (i) a growing commitment to renewable energy (approx. 1,000 MW installed power in 2021); (ii) development of the second phase of the Venice biorefinery (with a maximum capacity of 560 ktonnes/ year from 2021) and the completion of the Gela biorefinery (with maximum capacity of 720 ktonnes/year) by 2018; (iii) strengthening of Green Chemistry, with production of bio-intermediates from vegetable oil at Porto Torres (capacity of 70 ktonnes/year), studies, pilot projects and partnerships with other operators. The total investments in the 2018-21 four-year period amount to more than €1.8 billion, included the scientific and technological development (R&D) activities related to the path to decarbonization;
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Input: The sensitivity analysis does not show a comprehensive picture of all potential scenarios. Further, variables do not tend to move in isolation, nor in a uniform or consistent manner, and the analysis does not show the potentially infinite number of permutations, and resultant impacts, that might arise in reality as a consequence.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In addition, to the physical risks mentioned previously, rising temperatures could cause an increase in our operation and maintenance costs. Rising temperatures are associated to the reduction of the cycle efficiency of our turbines, a reduction of efficiency in solar photovoltaic modules, lower efficiency in wind facilities and higher consumption of chemicals used for operational purposes in our desalination plants, among others.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Risks to the Group’s reputation Risks include acts or omissions by the Group or any of its employees that could damage the Group’s reputation or lead to a loss of trust among its stakeholders. Every risk type has potential consequences for Zurich’s reputation. Effectively managing each risk type supports preventing adverse reputation outcomes.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The Bank is also a signatory to the Equator Principles III (EPIII) - a global set of principles and guidance to assess, mitigate, manage and monitor environmental and social risks in project-related financing. CBA co-leads the Climate Change Working Group to develop additional climate change assessment requirements in the next iteration of the Equator Principles (EPIV). This will include deeper guidance to support implementation of the principles by global financial institutions.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: 64 exclusion lists of companies and countries, drawn up and updated periodically, with the help of an independent expert advisor. These lists include companies involved in controversial weapons and countries with high risk of violating human rights, which are automatically excluded from the list of companies in which BBVA can invest.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Water stress Household water scarcity caused by climate change is another physical risk, which is exacerbated by population growth and urbanisation. During periods of drought consumers may reduce their use of certain products including laundry detergents, shampoos and conditioners, and toilet cleaners as they are unable to access water to use them or experience declining water quality which limits their enjoyment and/or efficacy. While the overall impact of water stress on our sales, from both policy and physical impacts, was not found to be significant in our scenario analysis at a global level within the 2030 time horizon evaluated, the impacts we see in the short term tend to be more local.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Company may not be able to offset such impact, including, for example, through higher freight rates. Climate change legislation and regulation could also affect CN's customers; make it difficult for CN's customers to produce products in a cost-competitive manner due to increased energy costs; and increase legal costs related to defending and resolving legal claims and other litigation related to climate change.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: This transition does not, however, automatically translate into a financial risk for us. For example, motor insurance is the most important business line of the re/insurance sector globally. According to Swiss Re's sigma database, it currently represents approximately 33% of global non-life gross written premiums and is expected to grow further, albeit at a lower rate.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: A challenge for today, not tomorrow Aviva has a long-term commitment to tackle climate change. In 2015, we announced an investment target of £500 million annually for the next five years in low-carbon infrastructure. We also set an associated carbon savings target for this investment of 100,000 tonnes of CO2e annually. In 2017, Aviva Investors signed £527.5 million of new investment in wind, solar, biomass and energy efficiency. Aviva continues to manage the impact of our business on the environment. Our Corporate Responsibility, Environment and Climate change business standard focuses on the most material operational environmental impacts, which we have identified as greenhouse gas emissions. We report these as carbon dioxide equivalent emissions (CO2e) on an operational basis in respect of Aviva’s Group-wide operations. See the table below.
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Input: At Karnataka, we produced and sold 2.2 million tonnes during FY2018, in line with the allocated environmental clearance (EC) limits. The Honourable Supreme Court has increased the cap on production of iron ore for the state from 30 to 35 million tonnes, and accordingly increase in our allocation for Karnataka from 2.3 to 4.5 million tonnes in May 2018.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: We could suffer losses and our business has been and could be adversely affected by the failure to adopt and implement effective risk management We have implemented risk management strategies, policies and internal controls involving processes and procedures intended to identify, monitor and manage risks facing the Group. However, our risk management framework has not always been, or may not in the future prove to be, effective.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: - CaixaBank voluntarily applies this procedure to sy - ndicated operations with a term of 3 years or more and when CaixaBank's individual commitment is between $7 million and $35 million.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: We also assess risks on the basis of their potential impact on the value of our franchise, which is supported by our reputation, brand and good customer relationships. Conduct and operational risks, such as cyber security breaches, data loss and IT systems failure, in particular have the potential to significantly impact our franchise value.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: We do not provide normalised figures for our CO2 emissions nor ratios of CO2 to production, financial results or employee headcount, as we do not believe that reporting a normalised figure meaningfully contributes to an understanding of our performance. The scope and diversity of our products make a single production figure impossible to calculate and our financial results are impacted by commodity prices and foreign exchange rates, which are outside of our control. In addition, due to the nature of the exploration, development and the production cycle, our CO2 emissions do not necessarily correlate to our employee headcount.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: For example, in 2019 CN spent $0.9 billion on the acquisition of 154 efficient highhorsepower locomotives, as well as fuel conservation practices, such as locomotive shutdowns in yards, streamlined railcar handling, train pacing, coasting and braking strategies.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The ERMC is supported by multiple committees, including the Corporate Responsibility & Reputation Committee (CRRC), Corporate Credit, Operational Risk, Management Compliance, and Asset/Liability. The CRRC is responsible for providing oversight and review of policies, programs, practices, and strategies that refect the company's core values and impact our reputation. It is also responsible for overseeing the identifcation and mitigation of top reputation risk issues and negative public perceptions. The CRRC charter explicitly includes environmental matters, including climate change. The CRRC includes the following roles: the Chief Communications and Reputation Ofcer, the Chief Enterprise Responsibility Ofcer, the Environmental Sustainability Director, Chief Ethics Ofcer, the Deputy General Counsel, and many others. Additional corporate policies and processes help identify, assess, and manage risk, including a new products and services risk assessment, self- identifed issues management program, reputation risk councils, vendor due diligence, and credit risk review.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Under the Strategic Plan 2018-2022, the company continues to optimise the businesses through additional efciency measures, with the commitment to cut annual operating expenses by Euros 500 million in 2022. These efciencies are focused on an analysis of the company's non-core activities and on the assignment of operational functions within each of the business units, all supported by the ongoing digitalisation processes.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: We have enhanced our Environmental, Social, and Governance heat map to include proxy climate risk metrics. This heat map is available to our analysts and fund managers and updated on a monthly basis. It includes a composite carbon exposure metric based on the carbon-intensity of business activities, the extent of operations in jurisdictions with stringent carbon emissions regulations and the quality of a company’s carbon management. We targeted a £500 million annual investment in low-carbon infrastructure from 2015-2020, and an associated carbon saving target of 100,000 CO2e tonnes annually. In 2017, we signed £527.5 million of new investment into wind, solar, biomass and energy efficiency. Aviva holds over £744 million in green bonds.
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Input: IFC expands the availability of such technologies by channeling investments toward private companies that build modern communications infrastructure and information-technology businesses. In FY18, we invested $376 million in initiatives related to technology, including funds mobilized from other investors — expanding our portfolio in this sector to more than $2.4 billion.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Businesses subject to this policy and implementation methods In this document, section 4.3.1.3 (1) Financing and Investment Transactions Prohibited Regardless of Sector lists projects for which we prohibit any financing or investment.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Climate change The EIB Group has committed to aligning to the principles and goals of the Paris Agreement by the end of 2020 and will gradually increase the share of its financing dedicated to climate action and environmental sustainability, expecting to support in total EUR 1 trillion of investments by 2030 (see the Looking Ahead Chapter).
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Banks’ financing choices have a major role to play in promoting carbon reduction. Bank lending and investments make up a significant source of external capital for carbon intensive industries. Every rand invested by South African banks in fossil fuel-related assets increases climate risk, renders it harder to achieve a just transition to a low-carbon economy, and exposes those banks to financial, reputational and litigation risks.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: 2 . As a further decarbonization driver, Eni intends to develop circular economy initiatives aimed at enhancing waste and biomass to extract new energy, new products or materials and to give new life to decommissioned or reclaimed assets. Overall spending in the four-year period 2019-22 for decarbonization, the circular economy and renewables is approximately €3.6 billion including scientific and technological research activities designed to support these issues.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Changes in precipitation patterns and extreme weather conditions such as floods, storms, droughts and fires may impact our plantations and the forests we source wood from and could result in fibre supply chain interruptions and higher fibre costs. Higher temperatures may also increase the vulnerability of forests to pests and disease. Increased severity of extreme weather events may also interrupt our operations. In water-scarce countries, we may see an impact on our production process as a result of limited water availability.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: First microfinance deal in Bulgaria We carried out our first commitment to microfinance in Bulgaria, by guaranteeing up to EUR 700,000 of a EUR 5.1m microcredit portfolio for the JOBS Microfinance Institution. The estimated 320 loans will have a particular emphasis on enterprises created by young entrepreneurs, women, artisans and small-scale farmers.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: - The investments in our own investment portfolio ($4.4bn; including cash) are mainly concentrated in government bonds and fixed income instruments issued by European financial institutions; see our annual report 2019, pp.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Energy efficient by design We focus on achieving high sustainability standards on our developments, optimising energy efficiency and generating renewable energy on site, rather than buying offsets for carbon neutrality. Our approach delivers cost savings for occupiers, well managed buildings for the people who work, shop and live in them and better assets for investors. We have delivered energy savings for occupiers of £13 million over six years, at the same time as optimising lighting, temperatures and air quality for wellbeing and efficiency. We are also improving energy modelling and piloting Soft Landings to close the gap between efficient design and performance.
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Input: In the US, the SEC has taken positive steps to facilitate e- delivery of mutual fund shareholder reports through the adoption of Rule 30e-3, which allows Registered Investment Companies to transmit shareholder reports electronically (subject to certain requirements). The ICI estimated that the adoption of Rule 30e-3 would save 1.87 million trees annually.63 Rule 30e-3 is effective beginning January 2021. We have long advocated for e-delivery given its benefits to investors and the environment, and we have encouraged the SEC to allow e-delivery as the default transmission mechanism beyond what they accomplished with 30e-3. In November 2020, the SEC Asset Management Advisory Committee recommended that the SEC further expand e- delivery. 64
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: We aim to promote equal opportunities by inspiring underrepresented groups to take up STEM fields by exposing them to aviation employment options and opportunities. By fueling the pipeline today through our support of educational initiatives and STEM programs, we will help to ensure more diverse perspectives in the hangars and boardrooms of the future.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In the case of substantial risks at sector level in the field of corporate and project financing, the reporting chain is as follows: Similar mechanisms exist for banking risks, country risks, market price risks and operational risks.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Application - Projects with high and irreversible risks and po - tential impact, where it is not deemed possible to establish a viable action plan, or projects that con - travene the Bank's corporate values, are rejected.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Beith: Stranded carbon assets was the underappreciated risk back then. Today it’s policy risk. There’s a palpable sense of grass-roots alarm as we see real-world, real-time effects of climate change, and that could create a policy tipping point where governments have historically been skeptical. That is the case next door to us in Australia, with its devastating bush fires, but also in the U.S., where state and municipal governments have taken the lead while the federal government moves in the opposite direction. Those potential tipping points create substantial investment risk.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Within our overall risk management categories, we recognise a number of key non-financial risks pertaining to our supply chain, environmental impact, employees, and social issues such as labour rights, human rights and corruption. These risks, as well as others that could emerge in the future, could hinder the company in achieving its strategic and financial objectives. Below we outline some of the most material non-financial risks to our business and performance, along with the main steps we have taken to manage them, while on page 84, we further consider our main climate-related risks and opportunities.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Ultimately, sustainable growth is also about culture and tone from the top. Leaders across the bank promote our efforts, articulate its importance and champion the work needed to deliver sustainable growth well into the future.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Furthermore, similar to upstream PP&E assets discussed above, E&A assets are also potentially exposed to climate change and the global energy transition. A greater number of projects may be expected not to proceed as a consequence of lower forecast future demand, lower appetite by management and the board to allocate capital to certain projects, or increased objections from stakeholders to the development of certain projects. In response, management has updated its internal controls over its IFRS 6 assessment to reflect the potential impact that climate change and the energy transition may have on E&A assets.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: To ensure we meet our targets, we use an internal carbon price of €25 per metric tonne of CO2 to guide decision-making, hold regular reviews to confirm that we adhere to all our internal standards and external environmental laws and regulations, and have third parties annually audit our environmental management systems and all bottling plant data.
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Input: BNP Paribas has analysed climate scenarios developed by several external organisations and selected a few. The Group predominantly uses the scenarios developed by the IEA and the IPCC22 and, for France, the EpE's ZEN2050 analysis, which modelled a possible pathway enabling France to become carbone neutral by 2050. For several years, BNP Paribas has published, in its Registration Document, a yearly comparison of the energy mix that the Group finances with the energy mix in the IEA scenario compatible with the Paris Agreement goal. This scenario includes only energy-related emissions, but is one of the most widely recognised scenarios used around the world. For 2018 and 2019,
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: We ensure that all airport operations, flight, and inflight crewmembers are equipped with the knowledge to identify and respond to potential cases of human trafficking through their initial training and subsequent annual recurrent training. In addition, all crewmembers can take an online human trafficking course. Crewmembers are taught what human trafficking is, who the victims typically are, what signs to look for, and how to report information of suspected human trafficking.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Four years ago, we began to significantly increase our exposure to the credit asset class which now stands at $18.3 billion at the end of 2019. We believe that rotating capital away from low-yielding, long-dated government bonds into higher-yielding credit investments provides for a better return on risk in the current low interest rate environment.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: R I S K - I N F O R M E D D E C I S I O N M A K I N G To achieve our business objectives and performance goals, we must ensure that our business strategies are aligned with the risks we face.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: We are subject to a wide range of international, national and local environmental laws and regulations, as well as the requirements of our customers and expectations of our broader stakeholders. Costs of continuing compliance, potential restoration and clean-up activities, and increasing costs from the effects of emissions could have an adverse impact on our profitability.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: However, given the unprecedented global supply chain issues that we are now seeing with many car manufactures and dealerships, we may be unable to purchase new EVs in sufficient numbers. In addition, our latest assessments of EV readiness in Europe show that, while the growth in public charging points continues apace, a significant number of countries are unlikely to have the infrastructure, fiscal incentives or model availability in place to support us reaching this goal by 2021.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: JetBlue's workforce is broadly diversified among several job classifications, with Airport Operations crewmembers as the largest group at 31.3%. Nearly all (99.2%) of JetBlue's workforce is based in the United States. For more information on our workforce and crewmembers, see page 39. (TR0201-05)
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In 2019, with a focus on its financing portfolio(2), EDC set a target to reduce its exposure to the most carbon intensive sectors by 15 per cent over five years against a December 31, 2018 baseline. As a result of this reduction, the carbon intensive exposure of EDC’s financing portfolio at December 31, 2023 is targeted to reduce to $18.9 billion(3), a decrease of approximately $3.3 billion over the five-year period.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The Alberta Climate Leadership Plan, sets forth several commitments relevant to the oil and gas sector: (1) the implementation of an economy-wide carbon levy; (2) limiting of oil sands emissions to a province-wide total of 100 megatonnes per year (compared to current industry emissions levels of approximately 70 megatonnes per year), with certain exceptions for cogeneration power sources and new upgrading capacity; and (3) a goal to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas activities by 45 percent by 2025. The economy-wide carbon levy is based on a rate of $30 per tonne for 2018 and exempts activities integral to oil and gas production processes until 2023.
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Input: A challenge for today, not tomorrow Aviva has a long-term commitment to tackle climate change. In 2015, we announced an investment target of £500 million annually for the next five years in low-carbon infrastructure. We also set an associated carbon savings target for this investment of 100,000 tonnes of CO2e annually. In 2017, Aviva Investors signed £527.5 million of new investment in wind, solar, biomass and energy efficiency. Aviva continues to manage the impact of our business on the environment. Our Corporate Responsibility, Environment and Climate change business standard focuses on the most material operational environmental impacts, which we have identified as greenhouse gas emissions. We report these as carbon dioxide equivalent emissions (CO2e) on an operational basis in respect of Aviva’s Group-wide operations. See the table below.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Reputation Risk: This is the risk of loss of credibility due to internal or external factors and is often related to, or results from, other categories of risk. This risk can arise from our internal business practices or those of our business partners or the companies in which we invest. Business partners include third parties hired to perform some of our administrative functions as well as investment organizations with which we have a contractual arrangement. A loss of reputation could impact our position as a partner, investor and employer of choice and impede our ability to execute our strategy.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Risks to the Group’s reputation Risks include acts or omissions by the Group or any of its employees that could damage the Group’s reputation or lead to a loss of trust among its stakeholders. Every risk type has potential consequences for Zurich’s reputation. Effectively managing each type of risk helps reduce such threats.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: For a small number of companies that were very close to the threshold, BNP Paribas Asset Management conducted analysis and engagement to encourage these companies to improve their decarbonisation targets - and these companies will be subject to annual monitoring.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: ACTION PLAN 2020-2023 Given the uncertainties relating to the macroeconomic and political outlook and the complexity of the interaction between measures to combat climate change and energy demand, we maintain a prudent financial approach in investment decisions. The four-year investment plan, focused on high-value projects with short pay-back period, provides for investments of around €32 billion in 2023 and is characterized by a high level of flexibility with around 60% of investments uncommitted in 2022-2023. Eni's investment program has been designed to achieve high-returns and resiliency even in a challenging scenario. In particular, the current portfolio of upstream projects in execution has a break-even price of 23 $/bbl (25 $/bbl in the previous plan) and an overall IRR of approximately 25%. These projects remain competitive even in a low carbon scenario. Adopting the IEA SDS scenario, which foresees a huge increase in the costs of emitting CO
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In terms of piloting, we are analysing CIB listed companies sub-portfolio data (about 30 percent of the total in terms of EAD of given portfolio) while for remaining companies we are applying proxies based on sector and size of the company.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: A top risk is defined as having: (i) the potential to have a material impact, across a business area or geographical area, on the financial results, reputation or sustainability of the Group; (ii) the potential of occurring in the near future.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: During 2019, we participated in the Carbon Disclosure Project and aligned our responses to the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures recommendations. Our 2019 score was B (Global average is C), consistent with the previous year but with improvements in scores on a number of dimensions including risk disclosure and risk management processes.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In late 2017, CN committed to purchasing 200 new alternating current traction locomotives over the next three years to accommodate future growth opportunities and drive operational efficiency across the system. CN’s order is the largest among Class I railways since 2014. These high-horsepower engines are equipped with advanced digital technologies to optimize power distribution, train handling, brake control and fuel utilization.
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Input: - CaixaBank voluntarily applies this procedure to sy - ndicated operations with a term of 3 years or more and when CaixaBank's individual commitment is between $7 million and $35 million.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The fund that investment trust plans to issue will be related to environmental protection with green energy and low carbon. The listed corporates of the fund will be focused on the selection from the lower 50% of the quantitative screening criteria for their carbon emissions figures and calculate the carbon emissions per unit of revenue.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: To prepare for more electric vehicles on our roads, we’re testing new business models, working with New York City on curbside charging stations, building fast-charging depots—imagine a “gas” station for electric vehicles—plus supporting school bus and transit electrification. Earlier this year, our regulators approved another $52 million for electric vehicle programs. The efforts are part of a larger strategy to support the shift to electric vehicles and combat climate change.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Based on this assessment, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the Group will be able to continue in operation, meet its liabilities as they fall due and raise financing as required over the period to December 2022.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The PJM average emissions rate has declined from 1,092 lbs/MWh in 20125 to 851 lbs/MWh in 2019 (22% reduction).5 We continue to make improvements to our existing plants to make them more fuel-efficient, and our recent investments in Keys Energy Center (Maryland), Sewaren 7 (New Jersey) and Bridgeport Harbor Station Unit 5 (Connecticut) further advance our overall efficiency.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Within our overall risk management categories, we recognise a number of key non-financial risks pertaining to our supply chain, environmental impact, employees, and social issues such as labour rights, human rights and corruption. These risks, as well as others that could emerge in the future, could hinder the company in achieving its strategic and financial objectives. Below we outline some of the most material non-financial risks to our business and performance, along with the main steps we have taken to manage them, while on page 84, we further consider our main climate-related risks and opportunities.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The Board of Directors has overall responsibility for ensuring that IAG has an appropriate risk management framework, including the determination of the nature and extent of risk it is willing to take to achieve its strategic objectives. The Board has oversight of the Group's operations to ensure that internal controls are in place and operate effectively. Management is responsible for the execution of the agreed plans.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: - - A new loan or a subsequent decision for an existing loan is then approved depending on the extent of the risk ('risk exposure') by the relevant decision-making level (Senior Manager, Vice President, Team Head, Head of Division or Head of Department, Group Credit Risk Committee, entire Executive Board, Board of Supervisory Directors).
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: For example, CN’s investments of approximately $850 million in long sidings and double track since 2000 have enabled 42% higher car velocity and 59% more RTMs. With our sights firmly set on the long haul, we plan to invest a record $3.2 billion in 2018 to improve the safety, efficiency and capacity of our network.
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Input: To better understand the landscape, Morgan Stanley engaged Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials and its current members in early 2020. We had an opportunity to learn more about their emissions factors database in order to better evaluate how PCAF's data for various assets could be utilized by Morgan Stanley.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: We fail to respond to the emerging threats from climate change for our investment portfolios and wider businesses As a significant investor in financial markets, commercial real estate and housing, we are exposed to climate related transition risks, particularly should abrupt shifts in the political and technological landscape impact the value of those investment assets associated with higher levels of greenhouse gas emissions.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: - The investments in our own investment portfolio ($4.4bn; including cash) are mainly concentrated in government bonds and fixed income instruments issued by European financial institutions; see our annual report 2019, pp.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: It is essential that risk assessment and risk-informed decision-making is integrated across all levels of our organization - from the board of directors through oversight of the risk management policy and program to executive leadership through the Risk Management Committee and to business operations.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: For our stakeholders: for customers, breaches in security may cause personal loss (both financial and emotional). There may also be consequences for relations with suppliers and intermediaries. For investors, any loss of business or reputation could result in lower returns. PSD2 will increase consumers’ control over financial data, but also their responsibility for this data.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: This broad, detailed study found BNP Pari- bas' business model to be resilient to these risks, with respect to: o its businesses, and the sector and geographic classifications of its portfolios; o the measures taken to mitigate these risks.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: National Bank Investments Inc. National Bank Investments Inc. (NBI), a Bank subsidiary, is a signatory of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and a member of the Responsible Investment Association (RIA).
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Climate change can pose material risks to sovereign debt due to its impact on national expenditures associated with disaster recovery from extreme weather events or preparedness through climate change mitigation and adaptation projects. Emerging market countries are particularly vulnerable since they often lack capital or have higher funding costs, which exacerbates the myriad risks that they already face. For example, many of these countries are vulnerable to food insecurity from both the impact of climate change on their own agricultural production and higher prices for imports. Our investment team members are increasingly focused on deepening their understanding of environmental risk in sovereigns and its complex links to fiscal and monetary conditions, which in turn affect bond yields and credit ratings.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: CN invested $1.6 billion in basic track infrastructure in 2017 to improve the safety and fluidity of our network. The work included the replacement of more than 2.2 million cross ties and the installation of over 600 miles of new rail, as well as bridge repairs, branch line upgrades and other general track maintenance. In 2018, CN is targeting a record $3.2 billion in total capital investment, up
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Input: Our ESO RIIO-2 plan proposes new activities that will generate net benefits of around £2 billion for consumers over the five-year RIIO-2 period and spend over its two-year price control (2021–2023) of £514 million. The ambitious ESO plan focuses on how the ESO must evolve to meet the challenges of the changing energy landscape. Supported by a new, bespoke regulatory model designed to drive the right behaviours and outcomes, the ESO will facilitate the transition to a zero-carbon power system. Under RIIO-2, the ESO will lower average annual consumer bills by around £3.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Should there be any local special conditions that are not sufficiently addressed by the group or parent strategy, the AI should either raise them with the group or parent for a possible solution or address them locally. In this regard, communication channels should be in place to facilitate the process.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The impact of climate change presents a significant risk. Damage to assets caused by extreme weather events linked to climate change is becoming more evident, highlighting the fragility of global infrastructure. We also anticipate the potential effects of climate change will increasingly impact our own operations and those of client properties we manage, especially when they are in coastal cities.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: First microfinance deal in Bulgaria We carried out our first commitment to microfinance in Bulgaria, by guaranteeing up to EUR 700,000 of a EUR 5.1m microcredit portfolio for the JOBS Microfinance Institution. The estimated 320 loans will have a particular emphasis on enterprises created by young entrepreneurs, women, artisans and small-scale farmers.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions Scope 3 emissions are indirect greenhouse gas emissions as a consequence of the operations of the Company, but are not owned or controlled by the Company, such as emissions from third-party logistics providers, waste management suppliers, travel suppliers, employee commuting, and combustion of sold gas by customers.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: MELBOURNE BACKS BTR In June 2019, we entered into an agreement with developer PDG to deliver 490 purpose-built, BTR apartments as part of the $450 million Munro development in Melbourne’s CBD. The Munro development is a key project within the City of Melbourne’s $250 million renewal of the Queen Victoria Market precinct.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: We also invested €4.3 million in energy efficiency projects which reduced energy consumption by 300 million MJ. Projects that contributed to this achievement include cooling improvements in eight countries, improvements in lighting efficiency in 12 countries, electrical power optimisation in three countries and heat recovery from ground water in Hungary. Air and steam leakage prevention programmes were also implemented at all 66 of our production sites during the year.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Each presentation includes the following: an overview of the business group, shortand long-term financial performance and goals, an assessment of portfolio growth opportunities, and strategic priorities to drive our Value Model.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: We have developed a Climate Policy Position Statement which outlines our role in limiting climate change to well below two degrees and the way in which we will support the transition to a net zero emissions economy by 2050. This includes undertaking a climate scenario analysis and setting a $15 billion target for financing low carbon projects by 2025.
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Input: In addition, many of the project’s end-customers are large entities with wide ranging activities. A climate related event in a non-related part of the business could have a material adverse impact on the financial strength of such end-customer and their ability to honor their contractual obligations which could negatively impact on revenue and the cash flow of the project and our business.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Each presentation includes the following: an overview of the business group, shortand long-term financial performance and goals, an assessment of portfolio growth opportunities, and strategic priorities to drive our Value Model.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The future is not a faraway place. It’s as near as tomorrow and it will affect us all. As energy consumption soars, how will we meet the demand? Fossil fuels are a finite resource that will gradually disappear. The natural replacement is sweeping freely around the earth – the wind.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: If Philips is unable to ensure effective supply chain management, e.g. facing an interruption of its supply chain, including the inability of third parties to deliver parts, components and services on time, and if it is subject to rising raw material prices, it may be unable to sustain its competitiveness in its markets.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Validation We established a common understanding between Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and all regions at the global meetings also based on the analyses conducted by overseas affiliates. We also engaged in dialogue with international organizations to validate the issues identified from perspectives outside of the company. The matrix was confirmed by relevant executives.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: These exercises highlight that not enough data are available for a bottom-up approach, assessing the vulnerabilities specific to Group clients and incorporating their response and remediation functions on a forward-looking basis.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Group environmental impacts: With over 83,000 employees in more than 100 countries, the Group’s operations impact on the environment, particularly as a result of travel, energy consumption and waste. Impacts associated with climate change: Climate events (floods, storms, tsunamis, etc.) may disrupt or interrupt the services delivered by agencies and teams to their clients.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Climate Action 100+ VicSuper is collaborating with more than 280 investors, with a combined total of nearly US$30 trillion in assets under management, to engage the world’s largest greenhouse gas-emitting companies to act on climate change. Through the Climate Action 100+ initiative, VicSuper is engaging with investee companies to reduce emissions in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement, and to strengthen governance practices and financial reporting on climate change.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Finally, as one of the largest financiers of energy in the world, we pledged to facilitate $200 billion in clean financing through 2025. Through this commitment, JPMorgan Chase will help scale the impact of sustainability efforts among more than 20,000 corporate and investor clients in the U.S. and across the world.
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Input: 2017 (36.01 tonCO 2 eq/kboe). This reduction already makes it possible to achieve the 2021 target, but Eni is nonetheless set on pursuing an improvement of at least 2% per annum in coming years as well. In addition to the upstream results already mentioned, this reduction was also made possible by a reduction in the emission intensity of refineries even with an increase in the performance index of EniPower. In 2018, Eni invested about €10 million in energy efficiency projects, which, once in full operation, will yield energy savings of 313 ktoe/year, amounting to a reduction in emissions of around 0.8 million tonnes of CO
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Based on these market developments, we continue to focus on policy and legal risks, as well as technology risks, as we mainly expect changes within these two dimensions to potentially impact asset values. In this way, we aim to capture those industries and groups of companies that are most exposed to these risks and may therefore require adjustments in the near to medium term.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: This broad, detailed study found BNP Pari- bas' business model to be resilient to these risks, with respect to: o its businesses, and the sector and geographic classifications of its portfolios; o the measures taken to mitigate these risks.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The conversion of the La Mède refinery (France), through an initial investment greater than €275 million, is underway with the start-up of the first French biorefinery and an Adblue(1) production workshop in July 2019. The site also has an 8 MW solar farm, which was commissioned in 2018, and a training center, OLEUM, which started up in 2017. This project has been carried out without any lay offs.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: IFC expands the availability of such technologies by channeling investments toward private companies that build modern communications infrastructure and information-technology businesses. In FY18, we invested $376 million in initiatives related to technology, including funds mobilized from other investors — expanding our portfolio in this sector to more than $2.4 billion.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In line with this action plan, in 2014 we set the target of “achieving a five-fold increase in value created in terms of climate change countermeasures through the provision of NEC products and services compared to the CO2 emissions from NEC’s supply chain,” and proceeded to carry out initiatives. During fiscal 2019, the value was six times, with a contribution of 33.58 megatons for an mitigation, targeting a reduction of 23 megatons by fiscal 2021, expanding to 50 megatons by fiscal 2031. Moreover, we will reduce CO2 emissions from our own business operations by improving efficiency and shifting to renewable energy. environmental load of 5.62 megatons, representing a significant improvement from 3.5 times in fiscal 2018. This reflects a stronger approach to our suppliers and an increase in provision of disaster measure-related solutions by domestic subsidiaries.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: However, in France, employees are involved in the Bank's long-term development through profit-sharing and/or incentive schemes. They are linked to the Company's overall performance (financial and non-financial) and regulated by Societe Generale agreements signed with the trade unions every three years. For Societe Generale SA in France, out of the total amount of profit-sharing and incentives paid in 2018 for the financial year 2017, 4% was relating to
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The fund that investment trust plans to issue will be related to environmental protection with green energy and low carbon. The listed corporates of the fund will be focused on the selection from the lower 50% of the quantitative screening criteria for their carbon emissions figures and calculate the carbon emissions per unit of revenue.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: This year, we invested $125 million in equity in Hero Future Energies, alongside the IFC Global Infrastructure Fund, which is managed by IFC Asset Management Company. Hero will set up 1 gigawatt of solar and wind plants across India in the next 12 months and aim for 2.7 GW of renewable-energy capacity by 2020.
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Input: IAG is exposed to multiple risks relating to the conduct of its general insurance business. The risks noted below are not meant to represent an exhaustive list, but outline those risks faced by IAG that have been identified in IAG's RMS: strategic risk – the risk of not achieving corporate or strategic goals due to poor business decisions regarding future business plans and strategies and/or a lack of responsiveness to changes in the business environment;
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Over the last two years, the CGEN has encouraged the Group to make strong com- mitments when it comes to managing climate-re- lated risks and opportunities, in various ways: re- ducing support for the coal sector, strengthening the Group's climate goals, etc.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In terms of piloting, we are analysing CIB listed companies sub-portfolio data (about 30 percent of the total in terms of EAD of given portfolio) while for remaining companies we are applying proxies based on sector and size of the company.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Now, these older coal and gas plants are being shuttered in the UK and being replaced by intermittent renewable energy sources, principally wind. This reduces carbon emissions but makes the provision of these system support services more challenging. Wind, by its nature, is intermittent and, for the most part, unable to provide system support services.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: For our stakeholders: for customers, breaches in security may cause personal loss (both financial and emotional). There may also be consequences for relations with suppliers and intermediaries. For investors, any loss of business or reputation could result in lower returns. PSD2 will increase consumers’ control over financial data, but also their responsibility for this data.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Finally, as one of the largest financiers of energy in the world, we pledged to facilitate $200 billion in clean financing through 2025. Through this commitment, JPMorgan Chase will help scale the impact of sustainability efforts among more than 20,000 corporate and investor clients in the U.S. and across the world.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: For separate account clients, we make this data available directly to the client upon request. In addition to supporting our clients in considering climate and other sustainability-related risks to which a given fund may be subject, making this data available to our clients supports our clients' abilities to report Greenhouse gas emissions data for their investments. On pages 39 and 40, we provide an example of the product-level disclosure provided to clients.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Regulatory compliance can divert management attention and increase capacity needed to make changes to comply, thereby reducing the aptitude to pursue strategic objectives. It often tends to increase the size of risk, compliance and assurance functions which monitor, maintain and report on compliance. Regulatory compliance can introduce complexity and inefficiencies into ordinary business processes, which drive up cost and impact customers who do not always appreciate the value of regulations.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: This figure included €153 million worth of assets in the Artemis office portfolio which comprises 33 assets, covering 360,000 sqm, in five different European countries. Over the rest of the portfolio, a further €255 million of assets are contracted and currently in the process of being onboarded during the first half of this year and will add to AUM during FY18.
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Input: Back the growth of climate change solutions • Increased lending to climate change solutions, taking total committed exposure to $9.3 billion, progressing towards our 2020 target of $10 billion; • Facilitated $3.6 billion in funding for climate change solutions, exceeding our 2020 target of $3 billion; and • Analysed climate change risks under 1.5, 2 and 4-degree scenarios.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In 2018, CN spent approximately $3.5 billion in its capital program, with $1.6 billion invested to maintain the safety and integrity of the network, particularly track infrastructure. CN's capital spending also included $1.0 billion on strategic initiatives to increase capacity, enable growth and improve network resiliency, including line capacity upgrades and information technology initiatives, $0.5 billion on equipment capital expenditures, including the acquisition of 500 new centerbeam cars and 65 new high-horsepower locomotives, and $0.4 billion on implementation of Positive Train Control (PTC), the safety technology mandated by the U.S. Congress.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Energy Efficiency: These measures include new retrofit technologies to improve Chiller and Air Handling Units (AHUs), integrated design and monitoring platforms. The Global Energy command centre aggregates Building Management System inputs on a common platform to optimize operational control and improve energy efficiency.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: R I S K - I N F O R M E D D E C I S I O N M A K I N G To achieve our business objectives and performance goals, we must ensure that our business strategies are aligned with the risks we face.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Thus, the Board of Directors, upon recommendation of its Compensation & Governance Committee, and following a comparative review of national, European and industry practices, decided to maintain unchanged, for 2020, the Chief Executive Off icer’s target annual variable compensation, at €1.45 million, i.e. 100% of the amount of his annual fixed compensation.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In SMBC's Credit Policy, which contains our overall financing policy, guidelines and rules, we declare that we will cease to provide financial support to borrowers engaged in businesses contrary to public responsibility, or which may have a significant negative impact on the global environment.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Climate change also threatens our food system which must produce 50% more food to feed over 9 billion people by 2050. However, changing weather patterns and growing seasons threaten suitable cultivation areas around the world. Business can spur positive change and achieving food security could create 80 million jobs and business opportunities worth $2.3 trillion annually by 2030. Linked to climate change is water scarcity, a threat to 3.2 billion people. If current usage continues the world will have only 60% of its required water by 2030. See pages 30 and 33 to 35 for more on climate change risks.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: We ensure that all airport operations, flight, and inflight crewmembers are equipped with the knowledge to identify and respond to potential cases of human trafficking through their initial training and subsequent annual recurrent training. In addition, all crewmembers can take an online human trafficking course. Crewmembers are taught what human trafficking is, who the victims typically are, what signs to look for, and how to report information of suspected human trafficking.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: 2015, the Bank had taken a commitment to target mobilizing USD 5 billion up to 2020 for climate action, and reports its Renewable energy funding portfolio annually. In addition, through the Environment & Social Policy, the Bank incorporates Environmental and social risk assessment into its overall credit risk assessment process.
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Input: In a local context, over the short term, changes to events such as hailstorms and bushfires will need to be reflected in technical pricing assumptions. In the medium term, cyclones are expected to extend southward to more populated parts of Australia, potentially adversely impacting assets and infrastructure that were not built to withstand such events.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: We have a climate change policy and implemented strategies aligned with the TCFD recommendations which describe our commitment with doing our part to limit global temperatures below two degrees, among these strategies are the following: • Financial products within our sustainable business strategy, where we offer products that seek to avoid GHG emissions with projects implemented by our clients. (Energy Efficiency, Cleaner Production, Sustainable Building and Electric Mobility) • Reducing our GHG emissions, where we have established a 2030 target in line with the Science Based Targets iniciative. Said target is aligned with all of our Eco-Efficiency reduction targets associated with energy, water, paper and business travel. • Issue of Green Bonds (Focused on sustainable building, and renewable energy projects for 350.000 million Colombian pesos) where we seek to engage with investors to incorporate climate change in their strategies.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The types of events that give rise to reputation risk are broad and could be introduced in various ways, including by the Firm’s employees and the clients, customers and counterparties with which the Firm does business. These events could result in financial losses, litigation and regulatory fines, as well as other damages to the Firm. As reputation risk is inherently difficult to identify, manage, and quantify, an independent reputation risk management governance function is critical.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: 51 In February 2020, BlackRock made a charitable contribution of its 20% stake in PennyMac Financial Services, Inc. to the BlackRock Foundation, a newly established corporate foundation, and the BlackRock Charitable Fund, a donor- advised fund, which was established in 2013.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Risks are assessed at least annually. Please refer to Section 6.1 Our approach to risk management, 6.2 Risk categories and factors, 6.3 Strategic risks, 6.4 Operational risks, 6.5 Compliance risks, and 6.6 Financial risks.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Given the significant impact of this period of uncertainty on both Canadian businesses and companies and governments around the world, and the resulting volatility in financial markets, we expect to see significant effects on several of our financial statement line items and on our financial results in 2020. The timing and size of those impacts is not possible to forecast at this time.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Group has divested from. Therefore, AXA also restricts insurance coverage for coal and oil sands-related assets (as well as in the other industries mentioned in the previous section), and arctic drilling. Since 2017, the underwriting restrictions ban Property and Construction covers for coal mines, coal plants, oil sands extraction sites or associated pipeline.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Stakeholder mapping and dialogue between BNP Paribas and each individual stakeholder are covered in 'How BNP Paribas listens to and takes into account the expectations of its shareholders', updated in 2019 and transmitted to the Corporate Governance Ethics, Nominations and Corporate Social Responsibility Committee (CGEN), a specialised Board of directors committee.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: 53 respectively, through ASE Cultural and Educational Foundation to fund various environmental projects, and our board of directors have resolved in a resolution in January 2018 to contribute NT$100.0 million (US$3.4 million) through ASE Cultural and Educational Foundation in environmental projects in 2018. Our estimated environmental capital expenditures for 2018 will be approximately US$13.3 million, of which 3.9% will be used in climate change adaptation.
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Input: In 2020, the EBRD signed a US$ 100 million project to finance Louis Dreyfus Company's (LDC) subsidiaries operating in Bulgaria, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Poland, Romania, Tajikistan, Turkey and Ukraine. The transaction will finance working capital needs for the trading activities of LDC's subsidiaries in these countries.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: We have been investing in videoconferencing and remote working capabilities as part of our IT Transformation Programme. Videoconferencing is integrated into our online collaboration platforms, enabling colleagues to join virtual meetings anytime, anywhere. Our teams can run webcasts with up to 500 participants.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In addition, we recognize the scientific consensus that climate change is a reality of increasing concern, indicated by higher concentrations of greenhouse gases, a warming atmosphere and ocean, diminished snow and ice, and sea level rise. We understand that climate change potentially poses a serious financial threat to society as a whole, with implications for the insurance industry in areas such as catastrophe risk perception, pricing and modeling assumptions, particularly if the frequency and severity of natural catastrophic events continue to increase. Because there is significant variability associated with the impacts of climate change, we cannot predict how physical, legal, regulatory and social responses may impact our business.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The COO's Employee Performance Scorecard (EPS) includes improvements in CN's fuel efficiency, in line with the Canadian rail industry medium-term emission intensity reduction target of 6% by 2022 from a 2017 baseline and the company's long-term sciencebased target to reduce Greenhouse gas emission intensity (tCO2 kilometres) by 29% by 2030, based on 2015 levels.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Given the significant impact of this period of uncertainty on both Canadian businesses and companies and governments around the world, and the resulting volatility in financial markets, we expect to see significant effects on several of our financial statement line items and on our financial results in 2020. The timing and size of those impacts is not possible to forecast at this time.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The ability to enable a fast and effective response to, and recovery from, disruptive events. The effectiveness of this element is determined by the thoroughness of efforts to plan, prepare and exercise in advance of events.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: LafargeHolcim is exposed to a variety of regulatory frameworks to reduce emissions. In addition, a perception of the sector as a high emitter could impact our reputation, thus reducing our attractiveness to investors, employees and potential employees. Based on TCFD framework and risk categorization, LafargeHolcim assesses all climate-related risks. See page 67 the most relevant risks associated with our business.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Its main priorities in 2019 were initiating investigations into new opportunities, reviewing existing proposals, examining and challenging our quarterly climate change reports and ensuring Trafigura is positioned to adapt as the world transitions to a low carbon economy.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: €4m invested annually to support innovation via the Seed’Innov and E-Face funds. instruments. Both are available to all business lines, without exception.The first of these funds, Seed’Innov, provides assistance from the earliest stages of R&D and proof-of-concept activities, continuing to support projects through to commercial launch. Its role is to cut the time-to-market. The second fund, E-Face, supports innovative low-carbon solutions by offering financial compensation to offset the difference in cost between a conventional carbon dioxide-emitting solution and an alternative low-carbon solution, which tends to be more costly. —
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Input: In 2019, AP6 compiled its first high-level analysis of physical climate risks in the portfolio. Although it does not go into great depth, it does indicate that there are medi- um-high risks in nearly half of the portfolio. It is not currently possible for AP6 to, at the portfolio level, assess other climate-related risks like changes in consumer behavior or more regulation of products and emissions.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Risk and risk management Operational risk and compliance risk Operational risk is the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems, or from external events including legal risk but excluding strategic and reputation risk. It also includes, among other things, technology risk, model risk and outsourcing risk.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: While the transformation of our systems will continue beyond 2021, we are committed to remaining within the guided transformation investment spend of €1.4 billion equating to an average of 50 to 60 basis points of Common equity tier 1 (CET1) capital annually until 2021. We expect that investment in transformation beyond 2021 will be at a lower level.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Climate change is one of the greatest challenges we face today, with the potential to significantly impact our business, as well as our planet, in a number of ways. Construction delays, loss in productivity, rising material, water and energy costs and damage to property are just some of the climate-related risks we face as weather events caused by higher temperatures continue to become more extreme.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Responsible investment, inclusive of climate change factors, is part of the standard due diligence conducted on each investment considered. Oversight of the proprietary rating system is the responsibility of our Responsible Investment Committee, which includes senior investment team representation from each platform. In this section we will touch on how the Capital Dynamics R-EyeTM Rating System, overseen by the Responsible Investment Committee and the firm's overall responsible investment initiatives help shape how we address climate change.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: As energy demand increases and easily accessible oil and gas resources decline, we are developing resources that require more energy and advanced technologies to produce. As our production becomes more energy intensive, this could result in an associated increase in direct GHG emissions from our Upstream facilities. See “Risk factors” on pages 09-10.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: New Chittoor facility During FY20, our eighth manufacturing facility in Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh was commissioned with Phase I installed capacity of 0.4 million units. The total Phase I investment for setting up the manufacturing facility is around ` 622 crore for a projected 1.8 million units annual capacity.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Identifying, quantifying and managing risk is complex and challenging. Although it is our policy and practice to identify and, where appropriate and practical, actively manage such risks to support objectives in managing capital and future financial security and flexibility, our policies and procedures may not adequately identify, monitor and quantify all risks.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The Fund updated the guidelines for its $1.5 billion Sustainable Investment Program (SIP), defining sustainable investing for the Fund and enumerating criteria, including best-in-class managers and strategies that identify macro trends or themes, such as Climate and Environment, Human Rights & Social Inclusion and Economic Development. All SIP investments will be held to the same investment criteria as all of the Fund’s other investments.
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Input: Our offerings are designed to meet the specific needs of IFC clients in different industries — with a special focus on infrastructure, manufacturing, agribusiness, services, and financial markets. In FY18, we made $11.6 billion in long-term investments in 366 projects. In addition, we mobilized nearly $11.7 billion to support the private sector in developing countries.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: It includes the risk that the Group fails to develop or to execute successful strategies to deliver acceptable returns in the context of the economic, competitive, regulatory / legal and interest rate environments that arise. It also includes non-financial risks such as people risks and risks relating to climate change.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: 51 In February 2020, BlackRock made a charitable contribution of its 20% stake in PennyMac Financial Services, Inc. to the BlackRock Foundation, a newly established corporate foundation, and the BlackRock Charitable Fund, a donor- advised fund, which was established in 2013.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: International political, social and economic risks Equinor has international interests located in regions where political, social and economic instability could adversely affect Equinor’s business. Equinor has assets and operations located in diverse regions globally where potentially negative economic, social, and political developments could occur. These political risks and security threats require continuous monitoring. Uncertainty exists around the UK`s exit from the EU and the potential market impact.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The fund that investment trust plans to issue will be related to environmental protection with green energy and low carbon. The listed corporates of the fund will be focused on the selection from the lower 50% of the quantitative screening criteria for their carbon emissions figures and calculate the carbon emissions per unit of revenue.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Given the significant impact of this period of uncertainty on both Canadian businesses and companies and governments around the world, and the resulting volatility in financial markets, we expect to see significant effects on several of our financial statement line items and on our financial results in 2020. The timing and size of those impacts is not possible to forecast at this time.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: We participate in the Carbon Disclosure Project Climate Change programme to disclose our climate strategy and performance to a collaboration of institutional investors. In 2019, our score dropped to B from A- in 2018, mainly due to our score for governance of climate-related issues and being unable to report on our full scope 3 inventory at the time of reporting. While disappointing, we now have measures in place to help to restore our score. These measures include strengthened governance through our new Board-level Sustainability Committee, and the work on scope 3 emissions described on page 40.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Extract: In 2016, we made further steps to systematically incorporate climate aspects in all investment decisions. We use tools such as internal carbon pricing, scenario planning and stress testing of projects against various oil and gas price assumptions. Equinor routinely tracks technology developments and changes in regulations, including the introduction of stringent climate policies, and assesses how these may impact the oil price, the costs of developing new oil and gas assets, and the demand for oil and gas.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: To achieve these figures, we have increased the procurement of energy from renewable certified sources to a total of 733,8671 MWh in our buildings in Spain, Germany, Austria, Brazil, Poland, Switzerland, Portugal, Holland, Turkey, Belgium, Luxembourg, and its LEED Stores in the US, France, Italy, Switzerland and India, preventing 258,409 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions. Thanks to this effort, the use of electricity from renewable sources in the company’s facilities multiplied by 17 since 2014.
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Input: The aggregated estimate for the ve selected segments of the Group's Australian lending portfolio indicates that the Group lends approximately $23,320 to these sectors in Australia for every tonne of Greenhouse gas emissions released to the atmosphere by customers in these industry segments.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: R I S K - I N F O R M E D D E C I S I O N M A K I N G To achieve our business objectives and performance goals, we must ensure that our business strategies are aligned with the risks we face.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: For a small number of companies that were very close to the threshold, BNP Paribas Asset Management conducted analysis and engagement to encourage these companies to improve their decarbonisation targets - and these companies will be subject to annual monitoring.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Identifying, quantifying and managing risk is complex and challenging. Although it is our policy and practice to identify and, where appropriate and practical, actively manage such risks to support objectives in managing capital and future financial security and flexibility, our policies and procedures may not adequately identify, monitor and quantify all risks.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: BBVA is focusing on increasing its activity in telecommunications infrastructures, given the social importance they have as facilitators of access to new technologies ('narrowing the digital divide'), digitization and contribution to economic development: ADAMO: Acquisition by the Swedish fund EQT of the fastest growing independent fiber supplier in Spain, whose main focus is rural communities.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Since 2008, the Fund has invested in green bonds, as part of the listed fixed- income portfolio, which are expected to contribute positively to the climate transition. Since 2015, green bonds have been a separate asset class in the strategic portfolio. In 2019, the Fund also decided to increase its strategic allocation from 1.0 to 3.0 per cent, which is equivalent to more than SEK 11 billion. AP2 has the last few years also invested in social bonds.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In developing our scenario analysis, we used internal data sets and assumptions made in our existing business models. We considered the views of departments across the business to better understand risks and time horizons. We also took the time to consider impacts and dependencies. This helped us to report on the risks and opportunities that are most material to our organization.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Importance Global warming is causing major changes to our environment. Climate change looks to be increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events such as heat waves, droughts, floods and tropical cyclones, damaging critical infrastructure and interrupting the provision of basic services such as food, water, sanitation, education, energy and transport.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Emissions generated by the consumption of fuels derived from helicopter and ship transport services (from the plant to the platform of the Gaviota and Castor underground storage facilities). Emissions generated by the consumption of fuels derived from the contracting of surveillance services and air, maritime and land maintenance. Emissions generated by the consumption of fuel in rented vehicles, cranes and suppliers’ hoists.
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Input: - Other subjects: The Group is also participating in a study by the French Association of Private Companies (AFEP) on the comparison of 2 C scenarios and in a different study by Entreprises pour l'Environnement (EpE) ZEN 2050 on the decarbonisation of the French economy by 2050.
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Input: For a small number of companies that were very close to the threshold, BNP Paribas Asset Management conducted analysis and engagement to encourage these companies to improve their decarbonisation targets - and these companies will be subject to annual monitoring.
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Input: Given the significant impact of this period of uncertainty on both Canadian businesses and companies and governments around the world, and the resulting volatility in financial markets, we expect to see significant effects on several of our financial statement line items and on our financial results in 2020. The timing and size of those impacts is not possible to forecast at this time.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Climate resilience In October 2019, we updated our scenario analysis on the value of our generation portfolio, to evaluate the impact of the more ambitious Paris Agreement goal of a 1.5 C carbon reduction pathway.14 Our generation portfolio represented 84 per cent of our operated Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions in FY2020.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: A top risk is defined as having: (i) the potential to have a material impact, across a business area or geographical area, on the financial results, reputation or sustainability of the Group; (ii) the potential of occurring in the near future.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Offsetting our Greenhouse gas emissions In addition to continuously investing in projects that mitigate our impact on climate change, in 2015 we launched the Itau Unibanco's Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Offset Program.
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Input: Ultimately, sustainable growth is also about culture and tone from the top. Leaders across the bank promote our efforts, articulate its importance and champion the work needed to deliver sustainable growth well into the future.
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Input: The initiative has four working groups; government bonds, listed equities and corpo- rate bonds real estate and strategic asset alloca- tion. Representatives from AP2 participate in the steering group and in the working groups for government bonds and real estate.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The future is not a faraway place. It’s as near as tomorrow and it will affect us all. As energy consumption soars, how will we meet the demand? Fossil fuels are a finite resource that will gradually disappear. The natural replacement is sweeping freely around the earth – the wind.
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Input: An inclusive culture at 3M is built on our Be Respectful Principles - to respect the dignity and worth of individuals; encourage the initiative of each employee; challenge individual capabilities; and provide equal opportunity.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Around US$16.5 billion of the insured losses caused by natural disasters related to the Camp Fire forest fire in California. This represents the highest loss to date for the insurance industry caused by a forest fire. In addition to further forest fires, 2018 was also notable for hurricanes, of which hurricane Michael and typhoon Jebi caused the greatest losses. Storms David (Friederike) and Eleanor (Burglind) were responsible for a high level of losses for the insurance industry in Europe as well (around US$3 billion). Germany accounted for around two-thirds of the losses.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: CORPORATE AND HOUSEHOLD DEBT 25 carried out a benchmark study of the banks’ calculated risk weights for exposures to commercial real estate. The results of the two analyses showed that there is a risk that the capital banks have earmarked for lending to commercial real estate will not sufficiently compensate for the credit losses that could arise following a severe financial stress. It is against this background that FI proposes higher capital requirements for lending to commercial real estate (see “Stability in the banking sector”).
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Input: Operational risks are inherent in the Barclays Bank Group’s business activities and it is not cost effective or possible to attempt to eliminate all operational risks. The Operational Risk Framework is therefore focused on identifying operational risks, assessing them and managing them within the Barclays Bank Group’s approved risk appetite.
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Input: We aim to promote equal opportunities by inspiring underrepresented groups to take up STEM fields by exposing them to aviation employment options and opportunities. By fueling the pipeline today through our support of educational initiatives and STEM programs, we will help to ensure more diverse perspectives in the hangars and boardrooms of the future.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The Bank also signed a €19 million deal in 2019 in Poland with BNP Paribas Bank Polska to improve energy efficiency in existing homes. The Polish bank will use the money to give loans to farmers and homeowners to install solar panels. The money also will help housing associations improve energy efficiency.
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Input: Furthermore, again in 2019, the following plants were completed: - the Adam plant in Tunisia (5 MWp with energy storage, 2.5 MWp Eni share) which will power the facilities at the Adam oilfield operated by Eni; - the photovoltaic plant at Katherine in Australia with a capacity of 34 MWp and energy storage; - 70% of the Badamsha wind farm in Kazakhstan, which is also an absolute first for Eni, with a total capacity of 50 MW (completed in February 2020).
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Input: In Pakistan, where millions remain cut off from the national grid, we invested $125 million in China Three Gorges South Asia to support a series of privately owned hydro, solar, and wind projects. Once operational, they are expected to provide electricity to more than 11 million people and boost the country’s generation capacity by 15 percent.
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Input: On February 8, 2018, the Government of Canada introduced legislation to revise the process for assessing major resource projects. If the legislation is passed in its current form, we believe it would have adverse impacts on pipeline companies, particularly in relation to the regulatory review process for proposed new projects that are “designated projects”, by making overall timelines for the development and execution of these projects longer and significantly increasing uncertainty.
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Input: Further notable figures can be seen from developments recorded this year. For instance, renewable electricity to be supplied to local communities in Senegal now totals 150MW, through four Meridiam solar projects. We have also increased our portfolio of Waste to Energy (WTE) projects to eight, totalling €224m of equity invested, including the Olstyn WTE project in Poland, which will provide renewable energy in place of fossil-fuelled power for the 270,000 inhabitants of Olstyn.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Regulatory risk is the risk of failure to meet new or existing regulatory and / or legislative requirements and deadlines, or a failure to embed compliant procedures into processes. It also includes the risk to the Group's capital, liquidity and profitability from the impact of future legislative and regulatory changes.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Reflecting our efforts to help expand re/insurance protection by working with public-sector clients, we made a commitment to the United Nations to advise up to 50 sovereigns and sub-sovereigns on climate risk resilience and to offer them USD 10 billion of insurance cover against this risk by 2020. You can see the progress we have made against this goal in the middle table on page 165. We also made a commitment to the Insurance Development Forum (IDF), in line with the InsuResilience Vision 2025 goals. This includes delivering climate and other natural hazards risk modelling, developing risk transfer solutions as well as offering capacity for climate risk insurance to increase insurance protection for selected climate-exposed countries.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Claims and insurance supply chain Risks of growing numbers of natural perils related claims was demonstrated by the bushfire, hail and storm events this financial year. This presents a short-term risk to operational claims handling capacity. In the medium term, supply and demand imbalances have the potential to impact claims inflation. Underlying supply chain costs could be impacted by limited availability of raw materials and potential carbon regulation but, as noted above, this is expected to be relatively immaterial.
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Input: Objectives: Introduce a directive carbon price in 60% of the annual expenditure committed to new projects Introduce a harmonised global circularity indicator for goods and services Systematically offer pay packages partially index-linked to our global performance Raise employee awareness and promote training in emerging models (carbon accounting, new business models, etc.)
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Input: The Board of Directors has overall responsibility for ensuring that IAG has an appropriate risk management framework, including the determination of the nature and extent of risk it is willing to take to achieve its strategic objectives. The Board has oversight of the Group's operations to ensure that internal controls are in place and operate effectively. Management is responsible for the execution of the agreed plans.
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Input: Accordingly, we have defined the associated risks and opportunities from a medium- to long-term perspective looking to 2030 and beyond rather than based on the short-term timeframe of the three-year medium-term management plan.
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Input: 64 exclusion lists of companies and countries, drawn up and updated periodically, with the help of an independent expert advisor. These lists include companies involved in controversial weapons and countries with high risk of violating human rights, which are automatically excluded from the list of companies in which BBVA can invest.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: As stockholders, we encourage transparency and accountability in the use of corporate funds to influence legislation and regulation. Nucor does not disclose its trade association memberships, or its payments used for lobbying. Nucor also does not disclose its membership in or payments to tax-exempt organizations that write and endorse model legislation, such as the Heartland Institute, a proponent of climate-change denial, and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a proponent of numerous controversial pieces of model legislation. We are concerned that Nucor’s lack of trade association and ALEC disclosure presents reputational risks. Over 100 companies have publicly left ALEC, including 3M, Deere, Emerson Electric and International Paper.
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Input: In the case of substantial risks at sector level in the field of corporate and project financing, the reporting chain is as follows: Similar mechanisms exist for banking risks, country risks, market price risks and operational risks.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The investment horizon is between 3 and 15 years, because shorter investment horizons than this risk creating restrictions in the management, which can lead to poorer earnings, in part due to lower liquidity. Evaluation is over a rolling five-year period and the outcome of individual years should be interpreted with caution since strategic positions are taken in the medium term.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Dominion East Ohio Pipeline Infrastructure Replacement Program In 2008, our local natural gas distribution company serving 1.2 million customer accounts in Ohio began replacing bare steel, cast iron, wrought iron and copper pipe. Over the next 20 years, we plan to spend at least $160 million annually—also recovered in customer rates—to both replace aging pipes and reduce methane emissions into the air.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The strategy involves not only a reduction of the Carbon dioxide footprint of the portfolio but also an innovative approach to aligning the portfolio with the two degree carbon reduction scenario in the future.
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Input: STRATEGY RISK Link to KPI/scorecard – business development and growth Risk of lack of balance between short and long-term investments, insufficient diversification of assets, the inability to manage the portfolio or grow the business during significant changes to market and industry conditions including evolving regulation and taxes related to climate change or caused by shift in oil demand resulting from substitution of hydrocarbons with renewable energy sources.
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Input: The Board of Directors has overall responsibility for ensuring that IAG has an appropriate risk management framework, including the determination of the nature and extent of risk it is willing to take to achieve its strategic objectives. The Board has oversight of the Group's operations to ensure that internal controls are in place and operate effectively. Management is responsible for the execution of the agreed plans.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Identifying, quantifying and managing risk is complex and challenging. Although it is our policy and practice to identify and, where appropriate and practical, actively manage such risks to support objectives in managing capital and future financial security and flexibility, our policies and procedures may not adequately identify, monitor and quantify all risks.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Climate change is a challenge faced by the entire P&C insurance industry. In particular, our home insurance business has been affected due to changing climate patterns and an increase in the number and cost of claims associated with severe storms. Water damages now make up more than half of our home insurance claims.
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Input: More recently, we have seen some shift in rhetoric on environmental and social issues by the mainstream financial community. However, the voting records of many fund managers tell a different story. Nearly across the board, the largest fund managers tend to vote in line with management recommendations and generally support very few shareholder proposals, which typically advocate for sustainable and responsible business practices. For example, a recent study by Ceres found that, particularly around the topics of climate change, some of the largest managers have among the worst voting records in the fund industry.
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Input: The process is continuous and dynamic and provides for the following sub-processes: (i) risk governance, methods and tools, (ii) risk strategy, (iii) integrated risk management, (iv) risk knowledge, training and communication.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Reputation: In managing our reputation we seek to avoid the loss of credibility due to internal or external factors. Many types of risk have the potential to negatively impact our corporate reputation. Internal business practices, or those of our business partners or the companies in which we invest, may generate reputation harm. Consequences include diminished brand efficacy in commercial markets, impeding our ability to execute our strategy and our status as investor, partner and employer of choice.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: International political, social and economic risks Equinor has international interests located in regions where political, social and economic instability could adversely affect Equinor’s business. Equinor has assets and operations located in diverse regions globally where potentially negative economic, social, and political developments could occur. These political risks and security threats require continuous monitoring. Uncertainty exists around the UK`s exit from the EU and the potential market impact.
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Input: Recent events On February 25, 2020, JPMorgan Chase announced additional steps in its initiatives to address climate change and further promote sustainable development. This year, JPMorgan Chase commits to facilitate $200 billion to advance the objectives of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including $50 billion toward green initiatives. The new commitment is intended to address a broader set of challenges in the developing world and developed countries where social and economic development gaps persist. As part of this commitment, the Firm had previously announced the creation of the J.P. Morgan Development Finance Institution to expand its financing activities for developing countries.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: There is an increased focus by foreign, federal, state and local regulatory and legislative bodies regarding environmental policies relating to climate change, regulating greenhouse gas emissions, energy policies and sustainability, including single use plastics. This new or increased focus may result in new or increased laws and regulations that could cause significant increases in our costs of operation and delivery. In particular, increasing regulation of fuel emissions could substantially increase the distribution and supply chain costs associated with our products. Lastly, consumers and customers may put an increased priority on purchasing products that are sustainably grown and made, requiring us to incur increased costs for additional transparency, due diligence and reporting. As a result, climate change could negatively affect our business and operations.
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Input: BNP Paribas conducted two studies in 2019 to as- sess the resilience of its loan books to transition risks and physical risks. - The Industry Research Department (EIS) of the Group Risk Department performed an internal analysis on five-year energy and climate-related risks, physical risks and transition risks. This report is part of the Group's standard analysis of syste- mic risks, inter alia in the context of the analyses conducted by EIS on the impact of different risk factors on economic sectors. The purpose of the analysis was to identify and assess the main en- ergy transition and climate change risks incurred by BNP Paribas. It notably examined the impact of climate change on sovereign risk and the more or less significant exposure of various economic sectors to energy transition risks and opportuni- ties. This broad, detailed study found BNP Pari- bas' business model to be resilient to these risks, with respect to: o its businesses, and the sector and geographic classifications of its portfolios; o the measures taken to mitigate these risks. - For the first time, in 2019 and with the help of external specialists, BNP Paribas performed an assessment, on a sample of clients in its portfolio, of physical risks covering the consequences of cli- mate change (extreme weather events) on the as- sets of Group clients. They generate financial risks for companies not only through direct impacts on their assets, but also in terms of indirect impacts through their supply chains and markets. For each counterparty analysed, the final score of exposure to physical risks is based on three risk factors: operational risks, supply chain risks (upstream) and risks of market share losses (downstream).
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Input: Suzano also is involved and spearheads external activities - such as working groups and research partnerships - working with industry associations (e.g., Iba, CEBDS, Brazilian Coalition on Climate, Forests and Agriculture, etc.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: IAG is exposed to multiple risks relating to its general insurance business. The risks noted below are not meant to represent an exhaustive list, but outline the material risks faced by the Group as identified in the RMS: strategic risk – the risk that internal or external factors compromise our ability to execute our strategic objectives or our strategy;
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Managing our value chain emissions In FY2018, Scope 3 emissions in our value chain were 596 million tonnes of CO2-e. The most significant contributors to this total were emissions from the downstream processing and use of our products, which accounted for around 97 per cent of total Scope 3 emissions. In particular, Scope 3 emissions emanating from the steelmaking process (the processing and use of our iron ore and metallurgical coal) accounted for over 65 per cent of the total. (2)
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Input: The foregoing list of risk factors is not exhaustive. Additional information about these factors can be found in the Risk Management section of the Bank's 2019 Annual Report. This information may be updated in our quarterly Shareholder Reports. Investors and others who rely on the Bank's forward-looking statements should carefully consider the above factors as well as the uncertainties they represent and the risk they entail.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Unfortunately, current energy market and policy settings are inhibiting investment in new large-scale renewable electricity generation projects as projects are unlikely to receive sufficient revenue over their lives to be economically sustainable. Electricity markets are substantially oversupplied due to both a decline in electricity demand and government policies incentivising new capacity to enter the market. Despite recent developments, uncertainty persists in relation to new investment to meet the Renewable Energy Target, which has been the subject of numerous reviews in recent years. Complementary policies will be required to address barriers to exit for ageing emission-intensive power stations to facilitate the transition to a clean, modern power system.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Sector restrictions For the sector specific restrictions, the following definitions should be applied: i) 'Financing': all lending, underwriting, issuance of debt and equity, trade and working capital finance; ii) 'Directly finance projects' refers to project finance or other lending/ underwriting where the use of proceeds is known to be for a particular project. http://home.barclays/annualreport
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The Group Compliance SU (CPLE) is responsible for the definition and consistency of the compliance risk prevention and control framework, and for coordinating the framework aimed at preventing, identifying, assessing and controlling reputational risk across the entire Group.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: ING issued a dual tranche five-year EUR 500 million and three-year USD 800 million green bond. This is ING’s first-ever green bond transaction. The money raised will go to projects in six categories eligible under ING’s newly established green bond framework, including renewable energy, green buildings, public transport, waste, water and energy efficiency. We have chosen a broad selection of sectors, which reflects our ambition to support sustainability across all industries and sectors.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Initial insights The majority of the residential properties in our portfolio have a very low probability of experiencing damage from flooding or drought in the next 30 years. A relatively small number of properties, however, have a high probability of experiencing damage from flooding or drought in that period. Therefore, the impact on an individual household may be significant, even more so if the quality of the property is already low or the household’s response capacity is low (e.g. insufficient wealth or mortgage headroom). Nevertheless this initial analysis does not suggest a significant impact at either a portfolio or bank level.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Funds, launched a Climate Risk Monitoring Service and we also launched our £2.1bn All World Equity Climate Multi Factor Fund. RI will remain a high priority for all stakeholders in the Central Pool in the years ahead and we will continue to develop and enhance our corporate capabilities in this area.
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Input: Reinvestment in the business In 2019, CN spent approximately $3.9 billion in its capital program, with $1.6 billion invested to maintain the safety and integrity of the network, particularly track infrastructure. CN's capital spending also included $1.2 billion on strategic initiatives to increase capacity, enable growth and improve network resiliency, including line capacity upgrades and information technology initiatives, $0.9 billion on equipment capital expenditures, including the acquisition of 154 new high-horsepower locomotives and 560 new grain hopper cars, and $0.2 billion on implementation of Positive Train Control (PTC), the safety technology system mandated by the U.S. Congress.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Indirect emissions, known as scope 2 and 3 emissions, result from operational activities we do not own or control. These include emissions produced as a consequence of electricity we purchase to power our treatment plants (scope 2) and other indirect emissions such as travel on company business (scope 3). Emissions from electricity we use are calculated by converting each kilowatt hour purchased into its carbon dioxide equivalent.
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Input: Exposure to Extractives Industries It is important to identify exposure to business activities in extractives industries in order to assess the potential risk of ‘stranded assets’. ‘Stranded assets’ are assets that may suffer from premature write-downs and may even become obsolete due to changes in policy or consumer behaviour. This is a real potential risk for assets in extractives industries as we transition to a lower carbon future.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Mobilizing private and institutional capital: We mobilize capital to support environmental and social issues, including the transition to a low carbon economy. For example: - We offer 100% sustainable discretionary mandates and asset allocation funds based on our new dedicated SI Strategic Asset Allocation for private clients in Global Wealth Management (GWM). - Our GWM in collaboration with AM is developing a range of new thematic and pooled impact investments. - Our GWM has committed to integrating Environmental, Social, and Governance assess- ments, including a dedicated climate dimension, into all fund and ETF onboardings. - We have set a target of directing USD 5 billion of client assets into new impact investments for the Sustainable Development Goals by end of 2021. These investments include a significant climate component. - We participated in launching Align17 - a WEF Young Global Leaders initiative - an independent, third-party digital marketplace, which stands out in connecting a wider range of public, institutional, and private wealth investors with SDG-related investment opportunities. - Our AM and GWM businesses have in place a comprehen- sive approach to environmental and social factors and to corporate governance across investment disciplines. The 2018 GRESB (Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark) awarded ten of AM's real estate and infra- structure funds 5 - star ratings, and seven funds ranked first in their respective peer groups.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The enterprise risks were categorized as an external, operational or strategic risk. External risks emerge from outside the organization, operational risks arise from within the organization, and strategic risks are associated with our strategic initiatives. The identified risks can significantly affect the Association’s finance, relevancy and reputation if mitigations are not in place.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: This strategic plan is based on a number of assumptions, in particular relating to the macroeconomic environment and the development of activities. Failure to achieve these objectives or the occurrence of unexpected events could compromise the achievement of the strategic plan and have a material adverse effect on the Group's business, results of operations and financial position.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: We were also proud to partner with UK Climate Investments committing a combined R1 billion to a dedicated renewable energy investment vehicle, Revego Africa Energy. Revego Fund Managers (RFM), a newly incorporated black‑owned and managed fund manager, will be responsible for managing Revego’s investments in operating renewable energy projects in South Africa and other sub‑Saharan African countries.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Project STOP was formally kicked-off in July 2017 and publicly announced at the Our Oceans Conference 2017 in Malta. Implementation of the first city partnership project started in April 2018 in Muncar, East Java, Indonesia. Muncar is a major fishing port suffering from plastic litter in its harbour, beaches and rivers.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In addition to e-learning modules on sectoral policies, available in eight languages, 12 interactive sessions (including methodology reviews and case studies) were organised to help employees improve their understanding and grasp of existing tools.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Thus, the Board of Directors, upon recommendation of its Compensation & Governance Committee, and following a comparative review of national, European and industry practices, decided to maintain unchanged, for 2020, the Chief Executive Off icer’s target annual variable compensation, at €1.45 million, i.e. 100% of the amount of his annual fixed compensation.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Safety and operational risks Process safety, personal safety, and environmental risks – exposure to a wide range of health, safety, security and environmental risks could cause harm to people, the environment and our assets and result in regulatory action, legal liability, business interruption, increased costs, damage to our reputation and potentially denial of our licence to operate.
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Input: Emission sources not reported This section of the report details the emission sources that we have not reported on and provides the reasons behind our decisions. Only some of the offices we operate directly make use of gas and we have included this in our emissions from combustion of fuel. We do not have distinct data on heat/steam for our other offices as this is most likely embedded in the office service charges that we pay. As a result, we have not currently reported on purchased heat or steam. In future we will devise a methodology to estimate the emissions associated with heating requirements that we are responsible for.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Climate risk is currently governed by ING's Climate Change Committee and relevant risk management committees. In 2020, we formed a climate risk working group to further develop suitable methodologies and support its integration in risk management processes.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: This long-term perspective is reflected in the choice of strategic portfolio, which includes both the long-term distribution of capital over various broad asset classes as well as strategies that determine the distribution within each asset class of individual securities.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In addition, we have been gradually introducing RPA, which uses robots to automate a series of tasks previously performed by employees, resulting in a reduction in work hours of approximately 300,000 hours in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2020. Going forward, we will continue to promote automation and labor savings in data input operations to improve administrative efficiency.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: First microfinance deal in Bulgaria We carried out our first commitment to microfinance in Bulgaria, by guaranteeing up to EUR 700,000 of a EUR 5.1m microcredit portfolio for the JOBS Microfinance Institution. The estimated 320 loans will have a particular emphasis on enterprises created by young entrepreneurs, women, artisans and small-scale farmers.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Businesses subject to this policy and implementation methods In this document, section 4.3.1.3 (1) Financing and Investment Transactions Prohibited Regardless of Sector lists projects for which we prohibit any financing or investment.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: An internal analysis of the generation fuel mix associated with our power utilities portfolio indicates approximately a third of our exposure is low-carbon, not inclusive of our $9.4 billion portfolio of tax equity investments 16F 17 in wind and solar projects throughout the U.S. We have dramatically reduced exposure to companies focused on coal extraction, as evidenced by the fact that pure play coal extraction now only represents $155 million of our energy sector exposure (or 0.4%), down nearly 80% from $762 million at FYE 2015.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: 2 footprint of the portfolio but also an innovative approach to aligning the portfolio with the two degree carbon reduction scenario in the future. - AM engages with companies in which it invests on behalf of clients to discuss approaches to mitigating climate-related risk, as well as actively voting on shareholder resolutions to improve transparency and disclosure around climate-related reporting. Specif- ically in the context of the Climate Aware fund, UBS Asset Management has implemented an engagement program with 50 oil & gas and utilities companies under- weighted in the fund. Dialogue with companies aims at improving companies' disclosure and performance alignment with the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures recommendations. Engage- ment makes it possible to share the results of the quanti- tative and qualitative assessments included in the fund methodology with investee companies too. This allows for the verification of company performance with additional information collected before and after meetings. It also means AM can collect feedback, explicitly com- municate objectives for change in corporate practices and further enhance the model used to inform the under / overweights in the strategy.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: We also anticipate that the potential effects of climate change will increasingly impact our own operations and those of client properties we manage, especially when they are located in coastal cities. For example, in 2018, the impact of natural disasters was significant with a series of devastating wildfires in the U.S. as well as floods in several geographies around the globe.
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Input: SUEZ is working to develop this model by adopting an internal carbon price, by systematically proposing a remuneration of operators indexed to global performance, by participating in efforts to develop material circularity indicators that will make the measurement of the impacts of the new model more robust.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In technology development, we focus on increasing resource efficiency - aiming to reduce energy and water consumption, emissions, effluents and waste. In 2019, 81% of our R&D projects were related to initiatives targeting sustainability improvements. Our efforts to mitigate the environmental impacts of our products and services are presented in Sustainable technologies and innovations.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: We recognize that there is potentially a lot of uncertainty regarding how to quantify these impacts and that reasonable people can differ in their assessments. As our collective knowledge and understanding of these mechanisms evolve, it is possible that the quantification of these scenarios may also change.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Reputational and financial impact: Increased concern over climate change could lead to increased expectations to fossil fuel producers, as well as a more negative perception of the oil and gas industry. This could lead to litigation and divestment risk and could also have an impact on talent attraction and retention and on our licenses to operate in certain jurisdictions.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The Audit Committee Charter states that the committee will 'discuss policies and procedures with respect to risk assessment and risk management, the company's major risk exposures, and the steps management has taken to monitor and mitigate such exposures.' The Vice President and General Auditor, Corporate Auditing, whose appointment and performance is reviewed and evaluated by the Audit Committee, is responsible for leading the formal risk assessment and management process within the company.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: At the beginning of 2019, VINCI Airports signed a memorandum of understanding with the Portuguese government to extend Lisbon’s airport capacity. It provides for upgrading the existing Humberto Delgado Airport and building a new civil airport on the Montijo Air base opposite the city at the eastern end of the Tagus estuary. VINCI Airports will invest €1.15 billion over the next 10 years in this two-pronged project.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In 2019, we: • provided a $43 million green loan to Sunseap Group to fund its installation of solar photovoltaic systems on the rooftops of 210 sites ranging from commercial and industrial to government premises. The 37 megawatt-peak solar power systems can generate enough energy to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 17,000 tonnes per year; and • rolled out U-Solar, Asia’s first solar industry ecosystem that connects businesses and consumers across the solar power value chain.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: This transition does not, however, automatically translate into a financial risk for us. For example, motor insurance is the most important business line of the re/insurance sector globally. According to Swiss Re's sigma database, it currently represents approximately 33% of global non-life gross written premiums and is expected to grow further, albeit at a lower rate.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: However, while any of these factors may lead to commencement of Engagement, we have decided to particularly focus on companies in relation to which we have particular ESG-related concerns, or which do not publish adequate environmental information, or which are ‘laggards’ with regard to a commitment to address climate change issues.
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Input: The current model for financing renewables is an example of inefficient distribution of effort, since, even though the electricity sector accounts for only around 25% of energy consumption, it is the electricity consumers who bear most of these costs (more than 80% in Portugal and Spain). This effect distorts competition among the various energy vectors, limiting electrification and penalizing consumers who are most dependent on this energy vector.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Disappointingly, the vast majority of companies only make generic references to emerging risks when describing their risk management processes. They provide little insight into whether existing risk management processes were sufficient to identify emerging risks or whether they had to flex or amend these processes to do so. They give little information about how emerging risks, once identified, are treated and monitored.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Concerns regarding global climate change may result in more international, regional and/or federal requirements to reduce or mitigate global warming and these regulations could mandate even more restrictive standards than the voluntary commitments that we have made or require such changes on a more accelerated timeframe. There continues to be a lack of consistent climate legislation, which creates economic and regulatory uncertainty. Such regulatory uncertainty extends to future incentives for energy efficient buildings and vehicles and costs of compliance, which may impact the demand for our products, obsolescence of our products and our results of operations.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: No changes have been made to the Bank Windhoek exclusion list, which is used to assess clients against activities that are not permitted due to unacceptable environmental and social impacts. No applications were declined on account of high risk, the exclusion list or any other environmental or social related reasons. No loans were turned down on account of the ESMS and there are no clients at risk of material breaches of environmental laws and regulations or unacceptable social and environmental impacts.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: METRICS AND TARGETS DNB sets targets and uses metrics to help monitor and manage our climate risk. Among our corporate ambitions from 2019, is to contribute with NOK 450 billion to the financing of renewable energy and infrastructure, and NOK 130 billion to the financing of green property in the period leading up to 2025. As of 2020, all new and refinanced shipping loans will include a clause on responsible ship recycling.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: International political, social and economic risks Equinor has international interests located in regions where political, social and economic instability could adversely affect Equinor’s business. Equinor has assets and operations located in diverse regions globally where potentially negative economic, social, and political developments could occur. These political risks and security threats require continuous monitoring. Uncertainty exists around the UK`s exit from the EU and the potential market impact.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: New Chittoor facility During FY20, our eighth manufacturing facility in Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh was commissioned with Phase I installed capacity of 0.4 million units. The total Phase I investment for setting up the manufacturing facility is around ` 622 crore for a projected 1.8 million units annual capacity.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The CFO convened a Scenario Discussion Workshop where members of senior leadership discussed the Company's current state, considered possible future scenarios, identified different risks and opportunities within these scenarios, and discussed the financial implication of these impacts on the Company.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Our Integris Global Equity portfolios exclude companies that have material connections to certain controversial industries, e.g. fossil fuels, tobacco and weapons. We also exclude companies that score the worst overall ESG score (‘CCC’) as calculated by an independent external ESG research company, MSCI ESG Research, and at the end of December 2018, there were 174 companies excluded from the portfolios as a result of this ESG screen.
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Input: In 2018, CN spent approximately $3.5 billion in its capital program, with $1.6 billion invested to maintain the safety and integrity of the network, particularly track infrastructure. CN's capital spending also included $1.0 billion on strategic initiatives to increase capacity, enable growth and improve network resiliency, including line capacity upgrades and information technology initiatives, $0.5 billion on equipment capital expenditures, including the acquisition of 500 new centerbeam cars and 65 new high-horsepower locomotives, and $0.4 billion on implementation of Positive Train Control (PTC), the safety technology mandated by the U.S. Congress.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: - African Americans, Asians, and Hispanics/Latinos combined make up 13.7% of the aircraft pilots and flight engineers in the U.S. - Women make up 3% of aircraft mechanics and service technicians.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: (2018: €4.6bn, 2017: €4.6bn). mBank in Poland also wants to step up its commitment to environmentally friendly product solutions, with an initial investment of around €118m (PLN 500m) in renewable energy projects at the end of 2018. In July 2019, mBank decided to double this financing pool. To date, around three-quarters of the funds for investments have gone to the wind sector, with the rest supporting the development of solar parks.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: BBVA is focusing on increasing its activity in telecommunications infrastructures, given the social importance they have as facilitators of access to new technologies ('narrowing the digital divide'), digitization and contribution to economic development: ADAMO: Acquisition by the Swedish fund EQT of the fastest growing independent fiber supplier in Spain, whose main focus is rural communities.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: MELBOURNE BACKS BTR In June 2019, we entered into an agreement with developer PDG to deliver 490 purpose-built, BTR apartments as part of the $450 million Munro development in Melbourne’s CBD. The Munro development is a key project within the City of Melbourne’s $250 million renewal of the Queen Victoria Market precinct.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Global energy demand has continued to be supported by conventional technologies and fossil resources, with energy intensity unable to be significantly reduced. Air pollution is one of the main issues facing large urban centres, but there are no structural changes allowing a substantial reduction in emissions. Many cities set restrictions on car traffic, not only because of environmental issues but also because of congestion, encouraging the emergence of a number of car-sharing and ride-hailing solutions, which partially replace public transport. Electric vehicles cannot be considered an alternative, because cities lack charging points and the batteries have an insufficient autonomy to handle urban traffic jams.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In 2019, and continuing throughout 2020, we have rolled-out a comprehensive climate change training programme. In 2019 we published an internal briefing paper focused on climate change science facts, its geopolitical and macro- economical implications, as well as commercial impacts on companies. This provided the basis for a training session attended by over 200 staff in Head Quarters. This training has now been converted into an on-line course which has now been shared with local units to incorporate as part of their training programmes. Further training activities are currently being planned including additional awareness raising and specific topics on business opportunities.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: BlackRock’s Sustainable Investing platform consists of more than $50 billion in dedicated ESG strategies. We also manage more than $440 billion in solutions that eliminate exposure to certain sectors or activities. And we offer our strategies in index and alpha-seeking, with varying levels of customization, from iShares Sustainable Core ETFs to bespoke, institutional client solutions.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: We emit greenhouse gases both directly and indirectly. Our direct (Scope 1) emissions come from our industrial businesses, including the use of natural gas and diesel, and fugitive emissions from coal mining. Our main source of indirect (Scope 2) emissions is electricity used by our operations. We also estimate our Scope 3 emissions, which are other indirect emissions that occur as a result of our operations (e.g. employee air travel), but are not controlled by us.
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Input: Reflecting our efforts to help expand re/insurance protection by working with public-sector clients, we made a commitment to the United Nations to advise up to 50 sovereigns and sub-sovereigns on climate risk resilience and to offer them USD 10 billion of insurance cover against this risk by 2020. You can see the progress we have made against this goal in the middle table on page 165. We also made a commitment to the Insurance Development Forum (IDF), in line with the InsuResilience Vision 2025 goals. This includes delivering climate and other natural hazards risk modelling, developing risk transfer solutions as well as offering capacity for climate risk insurance to increase insurance protection for selected climate-exposed countries.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Risk committees Effective risk management requires company-wide risk governance. ING's risk and control structure is based on the 'three lines of defence' governance model, whereby each line has a specific role and defined responsibilities and the execution and control of tasks are separated. At the same time, the three lines have to work closely together to identify, assess and mitigate risks. This governance framework is designed to manage risk in line with ING's overall risk appetite as approved by the Management Board Banking, Executive Board and Supervisory Board.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Dialogues with companies and decision-makers In addition to investing in sustainable strate- gies, AP2 has dialogues with companies and decision-makers to influence the transition to a low-fossil society. AP2 has in recent years, together with other investors, presen- ted a number of shareholder proposals on climate to several fossil energy companies (BP, Shell, Statoil) and the mining sector (Glencore, Rio Tinto, Anglo American). In addition to the shareholder proposals, the Fund also uses its voting rights to support other investors' shareholder proposals on climate. Over the past year, the Fund has noted that many company boards under- take to improve their climate reporting both in terms of emissions and in evaluation of the companies' projects/activities regarding climate scenarios.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: CORPORATE AND HOUSEHOLD DEBT 25 carried out a benchmark study of the banks’ calculated risk weights for exposures to commercial real estate. The results of the two analyses showed that there is a risk that the capital banks have earmarked for lending to commercial real estate will not sufficiently compensate for the credit losses that could arise following a severe financial stress. It is against this background that FI proposes higher capital requirements for lending to commercial real estate (see “Stability in the banking sector”).
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: This figure included €153 million worth of assets in the Artemis office portfolio which comprises 33 assets, covering 360,000 sqm, in five different European countries. Over the rest of the portfolio, a further €255 million of assets are contracted and currently in the process of being onboarded during the first half of this year and will add to AUM during FY18.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In addition, BlackRock's operations are carbon neutral. This achievement includes Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 employee business travel, serviced offices,2 and co-located data center emissions. We have achieved this milestone by employing energy efficiency strategies, achieving our 100% renewable energy goal,3 and offsetting emissions we could not otherwise eliminate.4
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: We have devoted significant resources to develop our risk management capabilities and expect to continue to do so in the future. Nonetheless, our risk management strategies, models and processes, including our use of various risk models for assessing market exposures and hedging strategies, stress testing and other analysis, may not be fully effective in mitigating our risk exposure in all market environments or against all types of risk, including risks that are unidentified or unanticipated.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: However, as a full-service bank, the objective for BNP Paribas is to continue financing all sectors of the economy (aside from certain duly identified sectors for which it has been determined that a transition compatible with the Paris Agreement goals is not possible), while working within each sector to encourage its clients to make a transition compatible with the Paris Agreement.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: We may be impacted by the long term effects of climate change, including: • increased severity or regularity of extreme weather events which may result in business disruptions, changing supply conditions, safety risks for our team members and customers, and damage to our physical assets and transport infrastructure; • changes to global policy and government regulations; and • changes to customer needs, preferences and behaviours.
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Input: At the same time, Equinor aims to continue to improve the efficiency, reliability, carbon emissions, and lifespan of fields already in production. During 2019, Equinor updated the climate ambitions for Norway. Driven by a large remaining resource potential on the NCS, Equinor aims to reduce the absolute greenhouse gas emissions from its operated offshore installations and onshore plants in Norway with 40% by 2030, 70% by 2040, and towards near zero by 2050, compared to 2005. The 2030 ambition alone is expected to require investments of around NOK 20 billion Equinor share, in projects within energy efficiency, electrification, infrastructure consolidation, digitalization, and new value chains, such as CCS and Hydrogen.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Identifying, quantifying and managing risk is complex and challenging. Although it is our policy and practice to identify and, where appropriate and practical, actively manage such risks to support objectives in managing capital and future financial security and flexibility, our policies and procedures may not adequately identify, monitor and quantify all risks.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Managing our emissions We emit greenhouse gases both directly and indirectly. Our direct (scope one) emissions primarily come from our industrial businesses, including the use of natural gas, refrigerants, diesel and fugitive emissions from coal mining. Our main source of indirect (scope two) emissions is electricity used by our operations.
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Input: At the beginning of 2019, VINCI Airports signed a memorandum of understanding with the Portuguese government to extend Lisbon’s airport capacity. It provides for upgrading the existing Humberto Delgado Airport and building a new civil airport on the Montijo Air base opposite the city at the eastern end of the Tagus estuary. VINCI Airports will invest €1.15 billion over the next 10 years in this two-pronged project.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Through these initiatives, Konica Minolta is aiming to achieve the business targets of more than ¥75 billion in operating profit, ¥50 billion in profit attributable to owners of the company, and ROE of 9.5% by fiscal 2019, the final year of the Medium Term Business Plan. Beyond this, we are looking to achieve a medium-term target of more than ¥100 billion in operating profit and more than ¥70 billion in profit attributable to owners of the company by fiscal 2021.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: IFC is helping reverse that decline. In 2018, we launched a Maximizing Finance for Development initiative — working with other members of the World Bank Group — to finance a $12 million solar project in Gaza to ease the energy shortage. The 7-megawatt rooftop solar-power plant will provide critical energy to 32 factories in the Gaza Industrial Estate — much more cheaply than before. The project will create around 800 jobs.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The ability to enable a fast and effective response to, and recovery from, disruptive events. The effectiveness of this element is determined by the thoroughness of efforts to plan, prepare and exercise in advance of events.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In Pakistan, where millions remain cut off from the national grid, we invested $125 million in China Three Gorges South Asia to support a series of privately owned hydro, solar, and wind projects. Once operational, they are expected to provide electricity to more than 11 million people and boost the country’s generation capacity by 15 percent.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Climate change may also lead to temperature increases, droughts, floods, hurricanes, etc., which may shift access to and alter cycles of different kinds of crops, rendering certain crop fields unusable for agriculture. Merchandise transportation may be affected as well if extreme weather conditions interfere with accessibility. Deciding whether to open a new store or not may be hindered if flood risks increase.
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Input: Limited transportation infrastructure risks The profitability of Equinor’s oil and gas production in a remote area may be affected by an infrastructure constraint Equinor's ability to commercially exploit discovered petroleum resources will depend, among other factors, on infrastructure to transport oil and gas to potential buyers at a commercial price. Oil is transported by vessels, rail or pipelines to refineries, and natural gas by pipeline or vessels (for liquefied natural gas) to processing plants and end users. Equinor may be unsuccessful in its efforts to secure transportation and markets for all its potential production.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Concerns regarding global climate change may result in more international, regional and/or federal requirements to reduce or mitigate global warming and these regulations could mandate even more restrictive standards than the voluntary commitments that we have made or require such changes on a more accelerated timeframe. There continues to be a lack of consistent climate legislation, which creates economic and regulatory uncertainty. Such regulatory uncertainty extends to future incentives for energy efficient buildings and vehicles and costs of compliance, which may impact the demand for our products, obsolescence of our products and our results of operations.
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Input: - CaixaBank voluntarily applies this procedure to sy - ndicated operations with a term of 3 years or more and when CaixaBank's individual commitment is between $7 million and $35 million.
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Input: An important consideration in the assessment of each risk was the relevant timeframe where the risk may be realised. In each case, the relevant scenario was documented and the most likely time horizon was identified. The likelihood and consequence was then assigned based on those parameters.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: AGL's Risk Management Policy, which has been approved by AGL's Board, mandates that management utilise risk management principles in decision-making, and requires all AGL people to consider their functions and roles and how to manage risks arising from their business decisions and activities. AGL's Statement of Risk Appetite, reviewed annually by the ARMC, sets out AGL's risk appetite in relation to strategic, financial, market and operational risks, as well as AGL's risk tolerance (which in turn identifies activities for which AGL has no appetite).
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Risk and risk management Operational risk and compliance risk Operational risk is the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems, or from external events including legal risk but excluding strategic and reputation risk. It also includes, among other things, technology risk, model risk and outsourcing risk.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: To advance Science for Community, we unveiled an additional 2025 Sustainability Goal. Through the expansion of 3M Impact, our skills-based employee volunteer program, we committed to 300,000 work hours of service across the globe. We formed a new partnership with the international non-governmental organization Clean Air Asia, which will leverage 3M’s expertise to improve air quality and the lives of people in New Delhi and Metro Manila.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: When these damages are uninsured – and therefore borne by households, businesses or public authorities – this affects financial institutions’ exposure to these parties. The second type of risk, transition risk, is the result of the transition to a carbon-neutral economy. Climate policy, technological developments and changing consumer preferences may cause the value of loans and investments in sectors and companies that emit large quantities of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases to decrease much faster than previously expected. Underestimating this risk could lead to sudden and significant losses in the financial sector. Such a collapse is what is known as a
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: IAG is exposed to multiple risks relating to the conduct of its general insurance business. The risks noted below are not meant to represent an exhaustive list, but outline those risks faced by IAG that have been identified in IAG's RMS: strategic risk – the risk of not achieving corporate or strategic goals due to poor business decisions regarding future business plans and strategies and/or a lack of responsiveness to changes in the business environment;
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Input: CORPORATE AND HOUSEHOLD DEBT 25 carried out a benchmark study of the banks’ calculated risk weights for exposures to commercial real estate. The results of the two analyses showed that there is a risk that the capital banks have earmarked for lending to commercial real estate will not sufficiently compensate for the credit losses that could arise following a severe financial stress. It is against this background that FI proposes higher capital requirements for lending to commercial real estate (see “Stability in the banking sector”).
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: ENBW Amounting to EUR 1.5 billion, this deal was the first sustainable finance transaction closed since the COVID-19 crisis began, where BBVA acts as the sole sustainable coordinator, and in which the economic conditions are linked to the performance of three sustainability indicators for the company (two environmental and one social), in addition to the company's credit rating.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Regulatory risk is the risk of failure to meet new or existing regulatory and / or legislative requirements and deadlines, or a failure to embed compliant procedures into processes. It also includes the risk to the Group's capital, liquidity and profitability from the impact of future legislative and regulatory changes.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: 3.3 Building on Intrinsic Business Model Strengths A pillar of the NorthEdge business is the principle of active partnership and influence to deliver on our core purpose. We enable this through relationship building with our target and existing portfolio company management teams. Then, formally known as 'active ownership', we leverage our nonexecutive Director role on investee company Boards, combined with our informal relationship(s), to steer a focus on value creation.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: This figure included €153 million worth of assets in the Artemis office portfolio which comprises 33 assets, covering 360,000 sqm, in five different European countries. Over the rest of the portfolio, a further €255 million of assets are contracted and currently in the process of being onboarded during the first half of this year and will add to AUM during FY18.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Future Opportunities from Product Development As a leading provider of data & analytics, S&P Global recognizes the role they play in designing products and solutions that will help our clients mitigate the challenges from climate change and drive opportunities as the world transitions to a low carbon economy.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Continued collaboration on flood-risk awareness In 2019, we announced the renewal of our multi-year funding for the Partners for Action (P4A) network at the University of Waterloo, Faculty of Environment. Since 2015, we have committed $1.2 million, in support of P4A’s continued efforts to inform Canadians about the changing nature of flood risk, and provide tools and knowledge to build personal and community flood resilience.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In addition, BlackRock's operations are carbon neutral. This achievement includes Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 employee business travel, serviced offices,2 and co-located data center emissions. We have achieved this milestone by employing energy efficiency strategies, achieving our 100% renewable energy goal,3 and offsetting emissions we could not otherwise eliminate.4
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Scope 2 emissions are the main component of our emissions profile. Our Scope 2 emissions, in turn, result primarily from our purchase of grid electricity. We also report Scope 3 emissions derived from air travel undertaken by our colleagues for business purposes. At present, Scope 1 emissions resulting from the use of vehicular fuels and stationary combustion fuels, which comprise a comparatively insignificant proportion of our overall energy consumption and emissions, are excluded from our reporting.
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Input: Stress testing our portfolio to assess the effect of climate change on the bank's financial position, in 2019 ING carried out an internal climate risk stress test. As there is no standard for climate change stress testing yet, ING has adapted its regular stress testing models while leveraging on insights from supervisory climate stress tests and internal climate (risk) experts.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Environmental and social risk is often associated with credit, operational and reputation risk. Environmental and social risk involves a broad spectrum of topics and issues, such as: pollution and waste; energy, water and other resource usage; climate change; biodiversity; human rights; labour standards; community health, safety and security; land acquisition and involuntary resettlement; Indigenous peoples’ rights and consultation; and cultural heritage.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Should there be any local special conditions that are not sufficiently addressed by the group or parent strategy, the AI should either raise them with the group or parent for a possible solution or address them locally. In this regard, communication channels should be in place to facilitate the process.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: MELBOURNE BACKS BTR In June 2019, we entered into an agreement with developer PDG to deliver 490 purpose-built, BTR apartments as part of the $450 million Munro development in Melbourne’s CBD. The Munro development is a key project within the City of Melbourne’s $250 million renewal of the Queen Victoria Market precinct.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The COVID-19 pandemic rapidly introduced an array of new and elevated risks to the safety of our people, the resilience of our operations, the strength of our balance sheet and the financial security of our customers and the community. Action has been required to address these risks, particularly in the following areas:
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: 4. While Canadian financial regulations are considered to be best in kind, they may pose an obstacle for financial institutions in adapting to the fintech ecosystem. The study found that there is a growing disconnect between regulations and the latest technological advances. Current regulations make it difficult for Financial Firms to undertake the low-level, rapid experimentation required to develop safe, useful fintech products and services.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The new index was built in three stages: - Firstly, Controversial Weapons Manufacturers were excluded from the universe of stocks that make up the FTSE All World Index universe, as the Trustee has a financial preference for avoiding such stocks where possible. - Secondly, a four-factor index was created (Value, Quality, Low Volatility and Low Size) that rebalances regularly through time to create a 'Balanced Factor' index with more attractive risk-return characteristics than the standard market capitalisation index. - Finally, three climate-related tilts were applied to the 'Balanced Factor' index to create a 'Climate Balanced Factor' index. The FTSE All World (ex CW) Climate Balanced Factor Index tilts away from Carbon Reserves and Carbon Emissions, whilst positively tilting towards Green Revenues. The tilts are set such that the inclusion of the climate-related tilts introduces a relatively modest tracking error compared to the Balanced Factor index without climate tilts. This allowed the Trustee to conclude that the new index was consistent with its fiduciary duty and provided an element of Climate Change protection.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Climate change strategy Climate risks the Commissioners face include: • Transition risk – the risk that our asset allocation, asset managers or individual investment assets prove to be poorly positioned for the investment risks and opportunities associated with the transition to a net zero carbon economy. • Physical risk – the risk that our assets are impacted by the physical risks associated with climate change, such as flooding and fire, particularly our property, rural and forest assets.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: 8 Climate change Climate change due to global warming could cause various damages, including flooding, landslide disasters caused by abnormal weather conditions such as concentrated torrential rains. Severe heat, heavy snowfall and drought due to unseasonable weather changes, water resources, and loss of biodiversity could also be expected to arise from climate change.
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Input: Like many of our customers, shareholders, and team members, we are concerned about climate change and other environmental challenges affecting our planet. We’ve launched the “Greener Every Day” campaign to educate and inspire our team members to join our environmental efforts by making simple changes in their behavior each day at home, work, and in the community. Our goal is for team members to make a total of 250,000 commitments to improve sustainability by 2020.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The initiative has four working groups; government bonds, listed equities and corpo- rate bonds real estate and strategic asset alloca- tion. Representatives from AP2 participate in the steering group and in the working groups for government bonds and real estate.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Economic and financial results in the four-year plan: the adjusted operating profit expected at €0.9 billion in 2021; cumulated free cash flow at €2.1 billion in 2018-2021. ● Reducing refining break-even margin at approximately 3 $/barrel by the end of 2018. ● Completion of the Gela conversion in biorefinery and the development of the second phase of the Venice biorefinery. ● Strengthening of marketing activities in countries of presence. ● Focus on digitalization to optimize operations and enhance efficiencies.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Moreover, without expanding their risk profile, it is becoming increasingly difficult for insurers to obtain a return on invested premiums that will cover their future commitments. This pressure on business models has resulted in a swelling wave of mergers and acquisitions, now also involving non-traditional actors such as private equity funds.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The two biggest emissions categories are car use and air travel. Compared to 2016, there was a decrease in the category ‘car’ as a result of the switch to electric lease cars. There were more kilometres of air travel in 2019, which resulted in higher CO 2 emissions in this area.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Prior to submission to the Board of Directors for final approval, investment decisions are reviewed by the EBRD Investment Committee (OpsCom). OpsCom is chaired by the First Vice President and Head of Client Services Group and includes representatives of all relevant functions involved in the business activity, including Banking, Legal, Risk Management, and the Economics, Policy and Governance team looking after the mandated objectives of the EBRD.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Emission sources not reported This section of the report details the emission sources on which we have not reported and provides the reasons behind our decisions. Only a minority of the offices we operate directly make use of gas and we have included this in our emissions from combustion of fuel. We do not have distinct data on heat/steam for our other offices as this is most likely embedded in the office service charges that we pay. As a result, we have not currently reported on purchased heat or steam. In future we will devise a methodology to estimate the emissions associated with heating requirements for which we are responsible.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: RISK TOLERANCE We have a low tolerance for risk, when it comes to protecting the human and environmental resources we all depend on. However, given the long-term nature of some sustainability risks and the level of uncertainty associated with their occurrence and impact, we accept that some risks are inevitable. We therefore focus on helping to minimise global risks while building resilience in our operations and supply chain. EXAMPLES OR RISKS • Resource scarcity, coupled with increasing demand, could affect the production, availability, quality and cost of raw materials. • Increased frequency of extreme weather events, from floods to droughts, could cause disruption in our supply chain and impact our business model by changing the sourcing of raw materials, as well as the production and distribution of finished goods. • Increased regulation and more stringent environmental standards could impact our business by affecting production costs and flexibility of operations. • Our industry is sustained by many agricultural and manufacturing communities around the world. Failure to support them in preserving key skills and building more sustainable livelihoods could cause social, economic and operational challenges, from community tensions and disruption to production to a reduced talent pool.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: EXAMPLES OF RISKS Resource scarcity, coupled with increasing demand, could affect production, availability, quality and cost of raw materials. Increased frequency of extreme weather events, from floods to droughts, could cause disruption in our supply chain and impact the sourcing of raw materials, as well as the production and distribution of finished goods. Increased regulation and more stringent environmental standards could impact our business by affecting production costs and flexibility of operations. Our industry is sustained by many agricultural and manufacturing communities around the world. Failure to support them in preserving key skills and building more sustainable livelihoods could cause social, economic and operational challenges, ranging from community tensions and disruption to production, to a reduced talent pool.
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Input: Mizuho Bank (formerly Mizuho Corporate Bank) became the first Asian financial institution to adopt the Equator Principles in 2003. Since our adoption of the Equator Principles in October 2003, Mizuho Bank has remained actively engaged with the Equator Principles Association as a member of the Steering Committee, which consists of 10 international financial institutions. Mizuho Bank has also played a leadership role, serving as Chair of the Steering Committee, the first Asian bank to do so, from 2014 to 2015 and serving currently as regional representative for Asia & Oceania.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: CLIMATE SOLUTIONS change. “When we think about livelihoods at risk from climate change impacts, we know that people living in developing countries, and especially the least-developed countries and small island states, are often most vulnerable and yet have the fewest financial resources to adapt,” says chief climate change expert Nancy Saich.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Future intent We continually review our metrics and targets, as needed, to ensure that the data we are measuring is meaningful, aligns with our strategy, and is providing the information the business and our stakeholders need to effectively monitor our performance and demonstrate our progress. In 2020/21, we will be laying out our pathway to achieve our net zero by 2050 emission reductions and setting targets to align our ambitions and provide better visibility to our progress.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: An inclusive culture at 3M is built on our Be Respectful Principles - to respect the dignity and worth of individuals; encourage the initiative of each employee; challenge individual capabilities; and provide equal opportunity.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In addition to e-learning modules on sectoral policies, available in eight languages, 12 interactive sessions (including methodology reviews and case studies) were organised to help employees improve their understanding and grasp of existing tools.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Businesses subject to this policy and implementation methods In this document, section 4.3.1.3 (1) Financing and Investment Transactions Prohibited Regardless of Sector lists projects for which we prohibit any financing or investment.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The inte- rest rate on the loan is tied to two key perfor- mance indicators: (i) achieving a net positive impact on biodiversity in UPM's Finnish forests; (ii) reducing Carbon dioxide emissions generated from pur- chased fuel and electricity 65% by 2030 (com- pared to 2015 levels), in accordance with UPM's commitment to aligning its business with the 1.5 C climate scenario.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Impacts of Risks are consequences of risks, both quantitative and qualitative. There may be many consequences of risks manifesting, such as a reduction in earnings and capital, liquidity outflows, and fines or penalties, or qualitative impacts such as reputation damage, loss of clients and customers, and regulatory and enforcement actions.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Global energy demand has continued to be supported by conventional technologies and fossil resources, with energy intensity unable to be significantly reduced. Air pollution is one of the main issues facing large urban centres, but there are no structural changes allowing a substantial reduction in emissions. Many cities set restrictions on car traffic, not only because of environmental issues but also because of congestion, encouraging the emergence of a number of car-sharing and ride-hailing solutions, which partially replace public transport. Electric vehicles cannot be considered an alternative, because cities lack charging points and the batteries have an insufficient autonomy to handle urban traffic jams.
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Input: At the beginning of 2019, VINCI Airports signed a memorandum of understanding with the Portuguese government to extend Lisbon’s airport capacity. It provides for upgrading the existing Humberto Delgado Airport and building a new civil airport on the Montijo Air base opposite the city at the eastern end of the Tagus estuary. VINCI Airports will invest €1.15 billion over the next 10 years in this two-pronged project.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: For separate account clients, we make this data available directly to the client upon request. In addition to supporting our clients in considering climate and other sustainability-related risks to which a given fund may be subject, making this data available to our clients supports our clients' abilities to report Greenhouse gas emissions data for their investments. On pages 39 and 40, we provide an example of the product-level disclosure provided to clients.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In 2019, HSBC participated in the Carbon Disclosure Project (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) working group to develop financial sector disclosure. We also partnered with climate change experts at MIT to produce exploratory transition scenarios. These scenarios were used to raise internal awareness of the different speeds with which transition could occur, the resulting investment requirements, the implications for energy system configuration and the broad macroeconomic costs.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: - - A new loan or a subsequent decision for an existing loan is then approved depending on the extent of the risk ('risk exposure') by the relevant decision-making level (Senior Manager, Vice President, Team Head, Head of Division or Head of Department, Group Credit Risk Committee, entire Executive Board, Board of Supervisory Directors).
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: JPMorgan Chase is committed to reporting on our approach to and performance on a range of environmental and social issues. Our annual Environmental, Social, and Governance Report is one of the principal channels through which we discuss how we are addressing Environmental, Social, and Governance matters that we and our stakeholders view as among the most important to our business. We also strive to support industry-led efforts related to Environmental, Social, and Governance disclosure, such as through our participation on the TCFD. https://am.jpmorgan.com/blob-gim/1383499229069/83456/2018-Global%20Procedures%20and%20Guidelines-FINAL.pdf https://am.jpmorgan.com/blob-gim/1383499229069/83456/2018-Global%20Procedures%20and%20Guidelines-FINAL.pdf
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Input: The potential impact of climate change as an environmental, social and governance challenge for the region is significant. The SADC region is particularly vulnerable to increased frequency of floods, cyclones and droughts which may damage infrastructure, destroy agricultural crops, disrupt livelihoods and cause loss of life. These impacts will increasingly influence investment and insurance decisions.
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Input: Although we have devoted significant resources to develop our risk management policies, procedures and methods, including with respect to market, credit, liquidity, operational as well as reputational and model risk, they may not be fully effective in mitigating our risk exposures in all economic market environments or against all types of risk, including risks that we fail to identify or anticipate.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: R I S K - I N F O R M E D D E C I S I O N M A K I N G To achieve our business objectives and performance goals, we must ensure that our business strategies are aligned with the risks we face.
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Input: Our risk assessment Rising average annual temperatures could lead to higher cooling costs for our business and our customers. More erratic temperature changes could lead to strain or failure of our mechanical heating and cooling systems. Storms could lead to higher maintenance costs. And flooding, both inland and coastal, could lead to direct damage to our properties. All of these hazards can affect our customers’ business continuity.
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Input: Prior to submission to the Board of Directors for final approval, investment decisions are reviewed by the EBRD Investment Committee (OpsCom). OpsCom is chaired by the First Vice President and Head of Client Services Group and includes representatives of all relevant functions involved in the business activity, including Banking, Legal, Risk Management, and the Economics, Policy and Governance team looking after the mandated objectives of the EBRD.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Accordingly, data for FY2019 is not consistent with data for FY2018 or preceding fiscal years. 3.Data for FY2016 regarding CO2 emissions from Showa Shell business sites is not publicly disclosed. 4.In line with a change in the end of fiscal year, Showa Shell’s FY2018 data is based on emissions during the 15-month period from January 1, 2018 to March 31, 2019.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: 64 exclusion lists of companies and countries, drawn up and updated periodically, with the help of an independent expert advisor. These lists include companies involved in controversial weapons and countries with high risk of violating human rights, which are automatically excluded from the list of companies in which BBVA can invest.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Furthermore, similar to upstream PP&E assets discussed above, E&A assets are also potentially exposed to climate change and the global energy transition. A greater number of projects may be expected not to proceed as a consequence of lower forecast future demand, lower appetite by management and the board to allocate capital to certain projects, or increased objections from stakeholders to the development of certain projects. In response, management has updated its internal controls over its IFRS 6 assessment to reflect the potential impact that climate change and the energy transition may have on E&A assets.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Future intent We continually review our metrics and targets, as needed, to ensure that the data we are measuring is meaningful, aligns with our strategy, and is providing the information the business and our stakeholders need to effectively monitor our performance and demonstrate our progress. In 2020/21, we will be laying out our pathway to achieve our net zero by 2050 emission reductions and setting targets to align our ambitions and provide better visibility to our progress.
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Input: In 2019, PME redesigned the passively managed equity portfolio of equities in developed countries. The starting point of the new portfolio is that PME knows what we are investing in and why. The contribution of beneficiaries was important in this matter, as was the reduction of climate risk in the equity portfolio. - Since the beginning of 2018, PME no longer invests in coal producers. PME is convinced that the business operations of mining companies that focus solely on coal are not future-proof and these producers therefore represent a risk to PME's investment portfolio. Investments are also no longer made in producers of tar sand oil. Its production is seen as too harmful to the environment by PME, and the fund cannot identify with this. - Engagement. MN conducts a dialogue on behalf of its clients with companies in the equity portfolios that, in absolute terms, contribute a great deal to the portfolio's carbon footprint. MN does so in collaboration with Climate Action 100+. - Mandatory participation in the GRESB sustainability benchmark for real estate investments.
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Input: The quantitative investment strategies focus mainly on stock picking based on quality and valuation. It is precisely these strategies, which yield long-term value and are suitable for large portfolios, that tend to perform poorly in a context of highly accommodative central bank monetary policies. In 2019, all major quantitative investment styles performed poorly; stock picking based on valuation and quality and stock picking based on recent price trends both yielded negative returns. This combination is seldom seen.
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Input: CORPORATE AND HOUSEHOLD DEBT 25 carried out a benchmark study of the banks’ calculated risk weights for exposures to commercial real estate. The results of the two analyses showed that there is a risk that the capital banks have earmarked for lending to commercial real estate will not sufficiently compensate for the credit losses that could arise following a severe financial stress. It is against this background that FI proposes higher capital requirements for lending to commercial real estate (see “Stability in the banking sector”).
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Risks to the Group’s reputation Risks include acts or omissions by the Group or any of its employees that could damage the Group’s reputation or lead to a loss of trust among its stakeholders. Every risk type has potential consequences for Zurich’s reputation. Effectively managing each type of risk helps reduce such threats.
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Input: These exercises highlight that not enough data are available for a bottom-up approach, assessing the vulnerabilities specific to Group clients and incorporating their response and remediation functions on a forward-looking basis.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Prior to submission to the Board of Directors for final approval, investment decisions are reviewed by the EBRD Investment Committee (OpsCom). OpsCom is chaired by the First Vice President and Head of Client Services Group and includes representatives of all relevant functions involved in the business activity, including Banking, Legal, Risk Management, and the Economics, Policy and Governance team looking after the mandated objectives of the EBRD.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Dialogues with companies and decision-makers In addition to investing in sustainable strate- gies, AP2 has dialogues with companies and decision-makers to influence the transition to a low-fossil society. AP2 has in recent years, together with other investors, presen- ted a number of shareholder proposals on climate to several fossil energy companies (BP, Shell, Statoil) and the mining sector (Glencore, Rio Tinto, Anglo American). In addition to the shareholder proposals, the Fund also uses its voting rights to support other investors' shareholder proposals on climate. Over the past year, the Fund has noted that many company boards under- take to improve their climate reporting both in terms of emissions and in evaluation of the companies' projects/activities regarding climate scenarios.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The physical impacts of climate change can compound existing environmental risks to operations, supply chains and markets, and impact our ability to obtain key inputs or meet our customers needs. This impact may include disruption to upstream suppliers, manufacturing sites, and downstream warehousing and distribution. The transition to a low-carbon future may also impact the cost of inputs used in product manufacturing and customer demand preferences.
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Input: OPG’s total forecast capital expenditures for the 2018 year are approximately $2.1 billion. This includes amounts for the Darlington Refurbishment project, hydroelectric and other development projects including the Ranney Falls GS redevelopment and construction of the Nanticoke solar facility, and sustaining capital investments across the generating fleet. OPG’s major projects are discussed in the section, Project Excellence.
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Input: The COVID-19 pandemic rapidly introduced an array of new and elevated risks to the safety of our people, the resilience of our operations, the strength of our balance sheet and the financial security of our customers and the community. Action has been required to address these risks, particularly in the following areas:
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Input: The Board of Directors has overall responsibility for ensuring that IAG has an appropriate risk management framework, including the determination of the nature and extent of risk it is willing to take to achieve its strategic objectives. The Board has oversight of the Group's operations to ensure that internal controls are in place and operate effectively. Management is responsible for the execution of the agreed plans.
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Input: Scope 2 emissions are the main component of our emissions profile. Our Scope 2 emissions, in turn, result primarily from our purchase of grid electricity. We also report Scope 3 emissions derived from air travel undertaken by our colleagues for business purposes. At present, Scope 1 emissions resulting from the use of vehicular fuels and stationary combustion fuels, which comprise a comparatively insignificant proportion of our overall energy consumption and emissions, are excluded from our reporting.
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Input: Around US$16.5 billion of the insured losses caused by natural disasters related to the Camp Fire forest fire in California. This represents the highest loss to date for the insurance industry caused by a forest fire. In addition to further forest fires, 2018 was also notable for hurricanes, of which hurricane Michael and typhoon Jebi caused the greatest losses. Storms David (Friederike) and Eleanor (Burglind) were responsible for a high level of losses for the insurance industry in Europe as well (around US$3 billion). Germany accounted for around two-thirds of the losses.
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Input: For our stakeholders: for customers, breaches in security may cause personal loss (both financial and emotional). There may also be consequences for relations with suppliers and intermediaries. For investors, any loss of business or reputation could result in lower returns. PSD2 will increase consumers’ control over financial data, but also their responsibility for this data.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: There is an increased focus by foreign, federal, state and local regulatory and legislative bodies regarding environmental policies relating to climate change, regulating greenhouse gas emissions, energy policies and sustainability, including single use plastics. This new or increased focus may result in new or increased laws and regulations that could cause significant increases in our costs of operation and delivery. In particular, increasing regulation of fuel emissions could substantially increase the distribution and supply chain costs associated with our products. Lastly, consumers and customers may put an increased priority on purchasing products that are sustainably grown and made, requiring us to incur increased costs for additional transparency, due diligence and reporting. As a result, climate change could negatively affect our business and operations.
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Input: Back the growth of climate change solutions • Increased lending to climate change solutions, taking total committed exposure to $9.3 billion, progressing towards our 2020 target of $10 billion; • Facilitated $3.6 billion in funding for climate change solutions, exceeding our 2020 target of $3 billion; and • Analysed climate change risks under 1.5, 2 and 4-degree scenarios.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Compliance risk Compliance risk is the risk of failure to comply with applicable rules and regulations, and in so doing, exposing the group to penalties and reputational damage. Penalties received or due for non-compliance are an example of this risk. As a leading financial services group, the group faces complex challenges to ensure that its activities comply with local legislation, regulations and supervisory requirements and the relevant international standards and requirements.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In our outlook for impacts on our clients' business, we employed two scenarios: a static scenario which assumes that no attempt is made to transform the present business structure, and a dynamic scenario under which the business structure is transformed.
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Input: The process is continuous and dynamic and provides for the following sub-processes: (i) risk governance, methods and tools, (ii) risk strategy, (iii) integrated risk management, (iv) risk knowledge, training and communication.
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Input: Uncertainty around the evolution of the wholesale market design, given the current challenges: • Marginal remuneration system not adjusted to the current context of growing penetration of fixed cost technologies (renewables, backup, storage). • Growing penetration of technologies with 0 marginal cost (reducing prices and increasing prices’ volatility). • Uncertainty around the returns of the conventional generation, in particular as backup capacity (relevant in a perspective of ensuring security of supply). • Volatile context, not suitable for long-term investments necessary to the modernization, decarbonization and security of supply.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Bank has a dedicated market intelligence function that provides crucial insights beyond publicly available data, which are essential in helping to identify actual and incipient sources of monetary and financial instability. It also leads work on fair and effective markets, alongside the FCA and HM Treasury. Market intelligence from both these activities allows the Bank to monitor the development of green and sustainable financial markets, and helps inform the Bank's policy response to climate-related risks affecting monetary and financial stability.
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Input: As a leader in the index investing and asset management industry, BlackRock has been the subject of commentary citing concerns about the growth of index investing, as well as perceived competition issues associated with asset managers managing stakes in multiple companies within certain industries, known as “common ownership”. The commentators argue that index funds have the potential to distort investment flows, create stock price bubbles, or conversely, exacerbate a decline in market prices.
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Input: Human rights are being severely affected by climate change. Human rights outcomes related to climate impacts include the loss of land, forced migration, and loss of life and resources due to conflict. People also have their rights to livelihood and work affected. Consequently, human rights impacts are of primary concern in a just transition.
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Input: An additional advantage of these programs is increased pilot diversity, something the industry currently lacks (see 'Case Study: JetBlue Foundation'). Across all of our above mentioned programs, 7% of pilots are women, almost double the national average for airline transport. In Gateway Select, 20% of the pilots in our program are from underrepresented groups, about five times the national average.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In addition, our businesses and the markets in which we operate are continuously evolving. We may fail to fully understand the implications of changes in our businesses or the financial markets or fail to adequately or timely enhance our risk framework to address those changes. If our risk framework is ineffective because it fails to keep pace with changes in the financial markets, regulatory requirements, our businesses, our counterparties, clients or service providers or for other reasons, we could incur losses, suffer reputational damage or find ourselves out of compliance with applicable regulatory or contractual mandates or expectations.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In recent years the impact of climate change is being felt throughout Japan. Its e ects include higher surface temperature, more frequent heavy rainfall events, declining quality of agricultural products, shifting plant and animal species distributions, and a higher risk of heat illness. �ere is a high probability that these e ects will continue and become more severe over an extended period.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In 2020, we invested £880,000 in delivering over 20 energy efficiency projects including a boiler upgrade, building management systems optimisation, improved lighting controls, and the installation of LEDs. These are expected to result in annual energy savings of 2,250,000 kWh. Over the next 12 months, we will pursue ISO 50001 accreditation at our commercial offices.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The Audit Committee Charter states that the committee will 'discuss policies and procedures with respect to risk assessment and risk management, the company's major risk exposures, and the steps management has taken to monitor and mitigate such exposures.' The Vice President and General Auditor, Corporate Auditing, whose appointment and performance is reviewed and evaluated by the Audit Committee, is responsible for leading the formal risk assessment and management process within the company.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Future intent We continually review our metrics and targets, as needed, to ensure that the data we are measuring is meaningful, aligns with our strategy, and is providing the information the business and our stakeholders need to effectively monitor our performance and demonstrate our progress. In 2020/21, we will be laying out our pathway to achieve our net zero by 2050 emission reductions and setting targets to align our ambitions and provide better visibility to our progress.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: BBVA is focusing on increasing its activity in telecommunications infrastructures, given the social importance they have as facilitators of access to new technologies ('narrowing the digital divide'), digitization and contribution to economic development: ADAMO: Acquisition by the Swedish fund EQT of the fastest growing independent fiber supplier in Spain, whose main focus is rural communities.
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Input: The Group faces many other risks which, although important and subject to regular review, have been assessed as less significant and are not listed here. These include, for example, natural catastrophe and business interruption risks and certain financial risks. A summary of financial risks and their management is provided on page 33.
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Input: In Europe, as new legislative initiatives have been brought in, we have sought to maximize the opportunities for digital dissemination. BlackRock produces approximately 50,000 Undertakings for the Collective Investment in Transferable Securities ('UCITS') Key Investor Information Documents a year in multiple languages and we use our website as our primary delivery mechanism. We have also consistently advocated for key information disclosure documents, including UCITS, packaged retail investment, and insurance-based investment products and pan European personal pension products to be designed on a digitally friendly basis rather than on a paper basis.65
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Input: In late 2017, CN committed to purchasing 200 new alternating current traction locomotives over the next three years to accommodate future growth opportunities and drive operational efficiency across the system. CN’s order is the largest among Class I railways since 2014. These high-horsepower engines are equipped with advanced digital technologies to optimize power distribution, train handling, brake control and fuel utilization.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: (11) Climate change The negative effects of climate change are becoming increasingly severe and are thus recognized as social issues that must be addressed globally, as demonstrated by the Paris Agreement and the SDGs. The process of manufacturing chemicals emits large amounts of greenhouse gases (GHG), the primary cause of climate change. The physical risks associated with climate change and risks pertaining to the transition to a low-carbon society have the potential to adversely affect the Group’s business results and financial position. Accordingly, the Mitsui Chemicals Group considers its response to climate change a key issue (materiality).
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: For NN’s residential mortgage portfolio, we analysed physical risks. Physical risks for mortgages in the Netherlands are mainly related to damage caused to properties by flooding events (including surface water flooding caused by heavy rainfall, river flooding, and coastal flooding). These events could either lead to a value decrease of collateral and/or impact on the ability of a houseowner to pay their mortgage.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Water is an essential input for our industrial activities. Concerns regarding the long-term availability and quality of water, and security of access to water, have increased due to changes to demography and climate. Damage caused by storm surges and strong winds can affect the availability of ports and critical infrastructure required to transport our goods. Changes in temperature can lead to heat stress affecting our workforce and equipment.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: By their very nature, these forward-looking statements require assumptions to be made and involve inherent risks and uncertainties, both general and specific. Assumptions about the performance of the Canadian and U.S. economies in 2020, including in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how that affect the Bank's business are among the main factors considered in setting the Bank's strategic priorities and objectives.
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Input: Our new policy measures outlined on page 1 will play a key role in shaping our portfolio over the coming years and help ensure we stay on track to meet our longer term goal.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: As an outcome of the nanced emissions and low-carbon scenario work, the Group has committed to work closely with 100 of its largest greenhouse gas emitting customers to support them in developing or improving their low carbon transition plans by 2023.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: STRATEGY RISK Link to KPI/scorecard – business development and growth Risk of lack of balance between short and long-term investments, insufficient diversification of assets, the inability to manage the portfolio or grow the business during significant changes to market and industry conditions including evolving regulation and taxes related to climate change or caused by shift in oil demand resulting from substitution of hydrocarbons with renewable energy sources.
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Input: 53 respectively, through ASE Cultural and Educational Foundation to fund various environmental projects, and our board of directors have resolved in a resolution in January 2018 to contribute NT$100.0 million (US$3.4 million) through ASE Cultural and Educational Foundation in environmental projects in 2018. Our estimated environmental capital expenditures for 2018 will be approximately US$13.3 million, of which 3.9% will be used in climate change adaptation.
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Input: 3.3 Building on Intrinsic Business Model Strengths A pillar of the NorthEdge business is the principle of active partnership and influence to deliver on our core purpose. We enable this through relationship building with our target and existing portfolio company management teams. Then, formally known as 'active ownership', we leverage our nonexecutive Director role on investee company Boards, combined with our informal relationship(s), to steer a focus on value creation.
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Input: In the US gas distribution businesses, we are focused on decarbonising our gas networks and the heating sector. We are doing this by reducing emissions related to natural gas through energy efficiency and demand response, continued investment in our leaking pipe replacement programmes and advancement of the future of heat. For example, we included a $90 million future of heat proposal in our April 2019 KEDNY/ KEDLI filing which combined expanded energy efficiency and demand response programmes, renewable natural gas interconnection investments, geothermal investments, and a hydrogen blending study. We plan to include future of heat proposals and continued pipe replacement programmes in our next Niagara Mohawk and Massachusetts gas rate filings. This work aligns with the Rhode Island Heating Sector Transformation, launched by the Governor in July 2019 to identify how the heating sector needs to change to meet the state’s climate objectives. This initiative concluded in April 2020 with recommendations provided to the Governor. Those recommendations included increased energy efficiency, electrification through air and ground source heat pumps, and fuel decarbonisation through renewable natural gas and renewable oil.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: METRICS AND TARGETS DNB sets targets and uses metrics to help monitor and manage our climate risk. Among our corporate ambitions from 2019, is to contribute with NOK 450 billion to the financing of renewable energy and infrastructure, and NOK 130 billion to the financing of green property in the period leading up to 2025. As of 2020, all new and refinanced shipping loans will include a clause on responsible ship recycling.
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Input: A material portion of this network is still relatively immature and there are risks that may develop over time. For example, it is possible that branches may not be able to sustain the level of revenue or profitability that they currently achieve (or that it is forecasted that they will achieve).
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: These sector-specific policies are usually developed by the AI taking into account relevant industry certification schemes, international practices, its strategy, level of exposure to the particular sector, and even its engagement with customers, industry experts, shareholders and the community.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Projects with potentially limited adverse social or environmental impacts that are few in number, generally site specific, largely reversible and readily addressed through mitigation measures. Issues relating to these risks may lead to fines, penalties or legal non-compliance and reputational damage. Examples could include increased use of energy or increased atmospheric emissions.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: We recognize that there is potentially a lot of uncertainty regarding how to quantify these impacts and that reasonable people can differ in their assessments. As our collective knowledge and understanding of these mechanisms evolve, it is possible that the quantification of these scenarios may also change.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Energy policy Throughout FY2018, national energy policy remained highly topical within Australia. As policy makers seek to tackle the energy ‘trilemma’ and solve a decade-long failure to effectively integrate energy and climate policy, ongoing uncertainty prevails in the market. This affects investment decisions, prices and energy reliability for Australian consumers and businesses.
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Input: Impacts of Risks are consequences of risks, both quantitative and qualitative. There may be many consequences of risks manifesting, such as a reduction in earnings and capital, liquidity outflows, and fines or penalties, or qualitative impacts such as reputation damage, loss of clients and customers, and regulatory and enforcement actions.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Accordingly, we have defined the associated risks and opportunities from a medium- to long-term perspective looking to 2030 and beyond rather than based on the short-term timeframe of the three-year medium-term management plan.
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Input: To advance Science for Community, we unveiled an additional 2025 Sustainability Goal. Through the expansion of 3M Impact, our skills-based employee volunteer program, we committed to 300,000 work hours of service across the globe. We formed a new partnership with the international non-governmental organization Clean Air Asia, which will leverage 3M’s expertise to improve air quality and the lives of people in New Delhi and Metro Manila.
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Input: This year, we invested $125 million in equity in Hero Future Energies, alongside the IFC Global Infrastructure Fund, which is managed by IFC Asset Management Company. Hero will set up 1 gigawatt of solar and wind plants across India in the next 12 months and aim for 2.7 GW of renewable-energy capacity by 2020.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Mobilizing private and institutional capital: We mobilize capital to support environmental and social issues, including the transition to a low carbon economy. For example: - We offer 100% sustainable cross-asset portfolios for private clients in Wealth Management, currently available in Switzerland and Germany. - Our wealth management business is developing a range of new thematic and pooled impact investments. - We participated in launching Align17 - a WEF Young Global Leaders initiative - an independent platform which stands out in connecting a wider range of public, institutional, and private wealth investors with investment opportunities related to the Sustainable Development Goals. - Our Asset Management business established a comprehensive approach to environmental and social factors, and to corporate governance, across investment disciplines. The 2017 Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) awarded ten of UBS Asset Management's real estate and infrastructure funds 5-star ratings, and seven funds ranked first in their respective peer groups. - Our Investment Bank provides capital-raising and strategic advisory services globally to companies offering products that make a positive contribution to climate change mitigation and adaptation, including those in the solar, wind, hydro, energy efficiency, waste and biofuels, and transport sectors. - We strive to be the preferred strategic financial partner relating to Switzerland's energy strategy 2050. And the UBS Clean Energy Infrastructure Switzerland strategy offers institutional investors unprecedented access to a diversified portfolio of Swiss infrastructure facilities and renewable energy companies. Due to client's demand, a successor strategy was launched in September 2017.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In technology development, we focus on increasing resource efficiency - aiming to reduce energy and water consumption, emissions, effluents and waste. In 2019, 81% of our R&D projects were related to initiatives targeting sustainability improvements. Our efforts to mitigate the environmental impacts of our products and services are presented in Sustainable technologies and innovations.
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Input: Given how essential bonds are to the global economy — as a source of risk management and returns for investors, as a source of capital for companies and governments — the lack of structural innovations to the bond market for many years was surprising. For decades, bond markets largely stayed the same. And in fact, investing in bonds became more difficult following the global financial crisis, as greater regulatory oversight and capital restrictions significantly reduced banks’ balance sheets and as a result, bond inventories.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Risk committees Effective risk management requires company-wide risk governance. ING's risk and control structure is based on the 'three lines of defence' governance model, whereby each line has a specific role and defined responsibilities and the execution and control of tasks are separated. At the same time, the three lines have to work closely together to identify, assess and mitigate risks. This governance framework is designed to manage risk in line with ING's overall risk appetite as approved by the Management Board Banking, Executive Board and Supervisory Board.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The potential impact of climate change as an environmental, social and governance challenge for the region is significant. The SADC region is particularly vulnerable to increased frequency of floods, cyclones and droughts which may damage infrastructure, destroy agricultural crops, disrupt livelihoods and cause loss of life. These impacts will increasingly influence investment and insurance decisions.
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Input: Based on these market developments, we continue to focus on policy and legal risks, as well as technology risks, as we mainly expect changes within these two dimensions to potentially impact asset values. In this way, we aim to capture those industries and groups of companies that are most exposed to these risks and may therefore require adjustments in the near to medium term.
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Input: Economic and financial results in the four-year plan: the adjusted operating profit expected at €0.9 billion in 2021; cumulated free cash flow at €2.1 billion in 2018-2021. ● Reducing refining break-even margin at approximately 3 $/barrel by the end of 2018. ● Completion of the Gela conversion in biorefinery and the development of the second phase of the Venice biorefinery. ● Strengthening of marketing activities in countries of presence. ● Focus on digitalization to optimize operations and enhance efficiencies.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: A top risk is defined as having: (i) the potential to have a material impact, across a business area or geographical area, on the financial results, reputation or sustainability of the Group; (ii) the potential of occurring in the near future.
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Input: 2017 (36.01 tonCO 2 eq/kboe). This reduction already makes it possible to achieve the 2021 target, but Eni is nonetheless set on pursuing an improvement of at least 2% per annum in coming years as well. In addition to the upstream results already mentioned, this reduction was also made possible by a reduction in the emission intensity of refineries even with an increase in the performance index of EniPower. In 2018, Eni invested about €10 million in energy efficiency projects, which, once in full operation, will yield energy savings of 313 ktoe/year, amounting to a reduction in emissions of around 0.8 million tonnes of CO
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Since the Industrial Revolution, an increase in energy consumption has heightened the concentrations of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), in the atmosphere, and global warming is progressing. If warming continues without taking any effective countermeasures, there will be major changes in the earth's climate. This will cause phenomena such as rising sea levels and abnormal weather patterns, and have a great impact on the living environments of people and other organisms. Abnormal weather patterns will also increase the risk of damage to the business activities of the Mitsui Fudosan Group.
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Input: We have already achieved our 2020 operational target set in 2010 by reducing our carbon emissions by 66% and we have a long-term reduction target of 70% by 2030. Now, 67% of electricity used by our global operations is from renewable resources and we are committed to using 100% renewable electricity by 2025 (aligned to the RE100 commitment). Across the UK, more than 400 employees have signed up to our car share programme and there are 180 active car sharing groups. We have also introduced twenty electric vehicle charging points at eight UK office locations and moved 30% of our car fleet to hybrid. More details of this analysis can be found on www.aviva.com/social- purpose.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: We are subject to a wide range of international, national and local environmental laws and regulations, as well as the requirements of our customers and expectations of our broader stakeholders. Costs of continuing compliance, potential restoration and clean-up activities, and increasing costs from the effects of emissions could have an adverse impact on our profitability.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: We aim to promote equal opportunities by inspiring underrepresented groups to take up STEM fields by exposing them to aviation employment options and opportunities. By fueling the pipeline today through our support of educational initiatives and STEM programs, we will help to ensure more diverse perspectives in the hangars and boardrooms of the future.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Compliance risk Compliance risk is the risk of failure to comply with applicable rules and regulations, and in so doing, exposing the group to penalties and reputational damage. Penalties received or due for non-compliance are an example of this risk. As a leading financial services group, the group faces complex challenges to ensure that its activities comply with local legislation, regulations and supervisory requirements and the relevant international standards and requirements.
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Input: Project STOP was formally kicked-off in July 2017 and publicly announced at the Our Oceans Conference 2017 in Malta. Implementation of the first city partnership project started in April 2018 in Muncar, East Java, Indonesia. Muncar is a major fishing port suffering from plastic litter in its harbour, beaches and rivers.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Climate change also threatens our food system which must produce 50% more food to feed over 9 billion people by 2050. However, changing weather patterns and growing seasons threaten suitable cultivation areas around the world. Business can spur positive change and achieving food security could create 80 million jobs and business opportunities worth $2.3 trillion annually by 2030. Linked to climate change is water scarcity, a threat to 3.2 billion people. If current usage continues the world will have only 60% of its required water by 2030. See pages 30 and 33 to 35 for more on climate change risks.
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Input: IFC expands the availability of such technologies by channeling investments toward private companies that build modern communications infrastructure and information-technology businesses. In FY18, we invested $376 million in initiatives related to technology, including funds mobilized from other investors — expanding our portfolio in this sector to more than $2.4 billion.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: More recently, we have seen some shift in rhetoric on environmental and social issues by the mainstream financial community. However, the voting records of many fund managers tell a different story. Nearly across the board, the largest fund managers tend to vote in line with management recommendations and generally support very few shareholder proposals, which typically advocate for sustainable and responsible business practices. For example, a recent study by Ceres found that, particularly around the topics of climate change, some of the largest managers have among the worst voting records in the fund industry.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In January 2020, GSF and Morgan Stanley Research convened our inaugural Cross-Divisional Forum on Climate Change. This collaboration brought together Morgan Stanley's experts on climate-related risks and opportunities across business units, including: - Institutional Securities Group: divisions represented included Investment Banking, Global Capital Markets, Institutional Equities, Fixed Income, Public Finance and Commodities - Wealth Management: joined by Wealth Management Investment Resources and Capital Markets - Investment Management: joined by portfolio managers from Private Credit and Equity, Real Assets and Alternative Investment Partners
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Our offerings are designed to meet the specific needs of IFC clients in different industries — with a special focus on infrastructure, manufacturing, agribusiness, services, and financial markets. In FY18, we made $11.6 billion in long-term investments in 366 projects. In addition, we mobilized nearly $11.7 billion to support the private sector in developing countries.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Compliance Risk Management Compliance risk (a type of operational risk) is the risk resulting from the failure to comply with laws (legislation, regulations and rules) and regulatory guidance, and the failure to appropriately address associated impacts, including to customers. Compliance risk encompasses violations of applicable internal policies, program requirements, procedures, and standards related to ethical principles applicable to the banking industry.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Creating value Measuring our reputation KPI FY19 FY18 FY17 FY16 FY15 AGL‘s Reptrak score declined since FY18. The drop in AGL‘s reputation over the past year has been driven by declining scores on three important dimensions of reputation – leadership, workplace and citizenship. This decline in reputation was consistent with scores across the energy industry as a whole.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Low Carbon Fuel Standards Existing and proposed environmental legislation and regulation developed by certain U.S. states, Canadian provinces, the Canadian federal government and members of the European Union, regulating carbon fuel standards could result in increased costs and reduced revenue. The potential regulation may negatively affect the marketing of Cenovus’s bitumen, crude oil or refined products, and may require us to purchase emissions credits in order to affect sales in such jurisdictions.
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Input: For our stakeholders: for customers, breaches in security may cause personal loss (both financial and emotional). There may also be consequences for relations with suppliers and intermediaries. For investors, any loss of business or reputation could result in lower returns. PSD2 will increase consumers’ control over financial data, but also their responsibility for this data.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The physical risks of climate change are divided into acute and chronic risks. Acute risks include risks related to extreme weather events, such as floods and hurricanes. Chronic risks include, for example, permanently higher temperatures and the ensuing sea level rise. Sectors particularly exposed to physical risks include the forest sector, agriculture and real estate, to name a few.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The inability to reform mortgage markets has dramatically reduced mortgage availability. In fact, our analysis shows that, conservatively, more than $1 trillion in additional mortgage loans might have been made over a five-year period had we reformed our mortgage system. J.P. Morgan analysis indicates that the cost of not reforming the mortgage markets could be as high as 0.2% of GDP a year.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The foregoing list of risk factors is not exhaustive. Additional information about these factors can be found in the Risk Management section of the Bank's 2019 Annual Report. This information may be updated in our quarterly Shareholder Reports. Investors and others who rely on the Bank's forward-looking statements should carefully consider the above factors as well as the uncertainties they represent and the risk they entail.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: This is due to the diversity of our business. The scope and range of our products make it impossible to calculate a single production figure and our financial results are affected by commodity prices and foreign exchange rates, which are outside our control. As a result of the nature of the exploration, development and production cycle, our CO2 emissions do not necessarily correlate to our employee headcount.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Strategy and objectives In relation to the risks and opportunities described above, Eni has defined a path to decarbonization and pursues a clear and well-defined climate strategy, integrated with its business model, which is based on the following drivers: - reduction in direct GHG emissions; from 2014 to 2017 the actions taken have enabled the GHG emission intensity index of the upstream sector to be reduced by 15%; the goal is to reduce this rate by 43% by 2025 compared to 2014 through projects to eliminate process flaring, reduce fugitive emissions of methane (for the upstream segment, by 80% in 2025 compared to 2014) and energy efficiency projects; in total the investments in support of these targets add up to an expenditure of about €0.6 billion in 2018-2021, at 100% and with reference only to upstream operated activities;
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Failure to comply and adapt to climate related matters is also a significant reputation risk which could result in e.g. lack of tenant interest, higher cost of capital in the financial market, and lack of ability to attract or retain talent. Also, not handling the company’s corporate social responsibilities in an informed and good matter is a reputation risk, whereas the opposite is an opportunity.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In developing our scenario analysis, we used internal data sets and assumptions made in our existing business models. We considered the views of departments across the business to better understand risks and time horizons. We also took the time to consider impacts and dependencies. This helped us to report on the risks and opportunities that are most material to our organization.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Public Perception of Alberta Oil Sands Development of the Alberta oil sands has received considerable attention in recent public commentary on the subjects of environmental impact, climate change and GHG emissions. Despite that much of the focus is on bitumen mining operations and not in situ production, public concerns about oil sands generally and GHG emissions, water and land use practices and indigenous engagement in oil sands developments specifically may, directly or indirectly, impair the profitability of our current oil sands projects, and the viability of future oil sands projects, by creating significant regulatory uncertainty leading to uncertainty in economic modeling of current and future projects and delays relating to the sanctioning of future projects.
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Input: Economic and financial results in the four-year plan: the adjusted operating profit expected at €0.9 billion in 2021; cumulated free cash flow at €2.1 billion in 2018-2021. ● Reducing refining break-even margin at approximately 3 $/barrel by the end of 2018. ● Completion of the Gela conversion in biorefinery and the development of the second phase of the Venice biorefinery. ● Strengthening of marketing activities in countries of presence. ● Focus on digitalization to optimize operations and enhance efficiencies.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: 4.3.4 Methods of stakeholder engagement are flexible and can be tailored according to different objectives. They may include surveys, meetings, written communication or any other channels, depending on the types of stakeholders. Given the areas of concerns and expectations may change over time, engagement should be an iterative process.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: OPG’s total forecast capital expenditures for the 2018 year are approximately $2.1 billion. This includes amounts for the Darlington Refurbishment project, hydroelectric and other development projects including the Ranney Falls GS redevelopment and construction of the Nanticoke solar facility, and sustaining capital investments across the generating fleet. OPG’s major projects are discussed in the section, Project Excellence.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: $40 trillion in assets. Signatories to Climate Action 100+ are requesting the boards and senior management of companies to: • Implement a strong governance framework which clearly articulates the board’s accountability and oversight of climate change risks and opportunities • Take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the value chain, consistent with the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global average temperature increase to well below
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: We have been investing in videoconferencing and remote working capabilities as part of our IT Transformation Programme. Videoconferencing is integrated into our online collaboration platforms, enabling colleagues to join virtual meetings anytime, anywhere. Our teams can run webcasts with up to 500 participants.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Environmental risk Environmental risk is the risk of loss to financial, operational or reputational value resulting from the impact of environmental issues. It arises from the business activities and operations of both us and our clients. For example, the environmental issues associated with our clients’ purchase and sale of contaminated property or development of large-scale projects may give rise to credit, regulatory and reputation risk. Operational and legal risks may arise from environmental issues at our branches, offices or data processing centres.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: ■ In addition, failure to adequately prepare for the potential impacts of climate change may have a negative impact on our financial position or our ability to operate. Potential impacts may be direct or indirect and may include business losses or disruption resulting from extreme weather conditions; the impact of changes in legal or regulatory framework made to address climate change; or increased mortality or morbidity resulting from environmental damage or climate change.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Our offerings are designed to meet the specific needs of IFC clients in different industries — with a special focus on infrastructure, manufacturing, agribusiness, services, and financial markets. In FY18, we made $11.6 billion in long-term investments in 366 projects. In addition, we mobilized nearly $11.7 billion to support the private sector in developing countries.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Reputation Risk: This is the risk of loss of credibility due to internal or external factors and is often related to, or results from, other categories of risk. This risk can arise from our internal business practices or those of our business partners or the companies in which we invest. Business partners include third parties hired to perform some of our administrative functions as well as investment organizations with which we have a contractual arrangement. A loss of reputation could impact our position as a partner, investor and employer of choice and impede our ability to execute our strategy.
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Input: In addition to the carbon risk scenario analysis, S&P Global took steps to further explore the risks and opportunities presented above to assess and plan for a range of potential scenarios. The CFO convened a Scenario Discussion Workshop where members of senior leadership discussed the Company's current state, considered possible future scenarios, identified different risks and opportunities within these scenarios, and discussed the financial implication of these impacts on the Company.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Economic and financial results in the four-year plan: the adjusted operating profit expected at €0.9 billion in 2021; cumulated free cash flow at €2.1 billion in 2018-2021. ● Reducing refining break-even margin at approximately 3 $/barrel by the end of 2018. ● Completion of the Gela conversion in biorefinery and the development of the second phase of the Venice biorefinery. ● Strengthening of marketing activities in countries of presence. ● Focus on digitalization to optimize operations and enhance efficiencies.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: An important consideration in the assessment of each risk was the relevant timeframe where the risk may be realised. In each case, the relevant scenario was documented and the most likely time horizon was identified. The likelihood and consequence was then assigned based on those parameters.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In this document, section 4.3.1.3 (1) Financing and Investment Transactions Prohibited Regardless of Sector lists projects for which we prohibit any financing or investment. Sections 4.3.1.3 (2) Financing and Investment Transactions which Require Additional Due Diligence Regardless of Sector and 4.3.1.3 (3) Policies on Specific Industrial Sectors describe our practices for determining whether to engage in transactions with clients/projects in subject sectors, accounting for the degree to which the client has taken steps to avoid or mitigate risk and other due diligence as appropriate, based on the characteristics of the services we are providing.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The foregoing list of risk factors is not exhaustive. Additional information about these factors can be found in the Risk Management section of the Bank's 2019 Annual Report. This information may be updated in our quarterly Shareholder Reports. Investors and others who rely on the Bank's forward-looking statements should carefully consider the above factors as well as the uncertainties they represent and the risk they entail.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Debut EBRD green covered bond investment The EBRD invested the Polish zloty equivalent of €11.7 million in the issuance by Poland’s PKO Bank Hipoteczny of green covered bonds. They will help the mortgage bank to finance residential buildings that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, fund green mortgages and diversify its investor base. The project also promotes capital market development in Poland. A second investment for the same amount was made later in 2019.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: We also support and advise companies in the Latin American and Caribbean agricultural sector to make smart investments that can improve their resilience to climate change. A 7-year financing for up to US$30 million was granted by IDB Invest and Rabobank to support Desdelsur. This project financed the completion of the clients comprehensive livestock project, making its feedlot the largest in Argentina, strengthening its leading position in the export of legumes and oilseeds by telecommunications sector, as well as financing part of the company’s strategic investment plan for the deployment of a 4G network and providing better connectivity across its territory.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Environmental risk Environmental risk is the risk of loss to financial, operational or reputational value resulting from the impact of environmental issues. It arises from the business activities and operations of both us and our clients. For example, the environmental issues associated with our clients’ purchase and sale of contaminated property or development of large-scale projects may give rise to credit, regulatory and reputation risk. Operational and legal risks may arise from environmental issues at our branches, offices or data processing centres.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Climate change also threatens our food system which must produce 50% more food to feed over 9 billion people by 2050. However, changing weather patterns and growing seasons threaten suitable cultivation areas around the world. Business can spur positive change and achieving food security could create 80 million jobs and business opportunities worth $2.3 trillion annually by 2030. Linked to climate change is water scarcity, a threat to 3.2 billion people. If current usage continues the world will have only 60% of its required water by 2030. See pages 30 and 33 to 35 for more on climate change risks.
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Input: Limitations and uncertainties This analysis is based on best available information. However, it is unable to overcome some important limitations and uncertainties. For example, climate change simulations currently have minimal ability to model extreme weather events. Similarly, agricultural impact models need to be further developed to test the bounds at which statistical relationships change.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The Group considers risk management to be the key point in the financing business. We are therefore establishing a specialized risk management system that includes risk assessment standards specific to asset types, portfolio management, and monitoring methods. Under this management system, we will prioritize increasing transaction diversification as a concrete method of increasing operating assets exceeding ¥100 billion over the coming three years.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: 4) After segmentation, a calibration phase is proposed. In this phase, it is necessary to select five clients from each established segment minimally and to estimate the impact on their default probability against the established revenue, cost and investment impacts. There is no single way to apply this step, and it can be constructed either quantitatively or qualitatively.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In recent years the impact of climate change is being felt throughout Japan. Its e ects include higher surface temperature, more frequent heavy rainfall events, declining quality of agricultural products, shifting plant and animal species distributions, and a higher risk of heat illness. �ere is a high probability that these e ects will continue and become more severe over an extended period.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Climate Action 100+ VicSuper is collaborating with more than 280 investors, with a combined total of nearly US$30 trillion in assets under management, to engage the world’s largest greenhouse gas-emitting companies to act on climate change. Through the Climate Action 100+ initiative, VicSuper is engaging with investee companies to reduce emissions in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement, and to strengthen governance practices and financial reporting on climate change.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In addition to participating in international working groups associated with the Principles for Responsible Banking, the Bank participates in the work of the Canadian Bankers Association on the following issues: Scenario analysis Integrating climate-related concepts into risk management Defining a Canadian taxonomy Monitoring key developments and best practices Standardizing of calculation methodologies Peer-to-peer comparison exercises Increasing the Efficiency of Our Operations In addition to its efforts to develop sustainable products and services, the Bank has identified opportunities to be greener in its operations.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In addi- tion, analyses of various trends will be performed periodi- cally in the future in order to revise assessments and disclose information on risks and opportunities related to other areas.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: 4.3.4 Methods of stakeholder engagement are flexible and can be tailored according to different objectives. They may include surveys, meetings, written communication or any other channels, depending on the types of stakeholders. Given the areas of concerns and expectations may change over time, engagement should be an iterative process.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The main impacts of the 4°C scenario were as follows: • Chronic and acute water stress reduces agricultural productivity in some regions, raising prices of raw materials. • Increased frequency of extreme weather (storms and floods) causes increased incidence of disruption to our manufacturing and distribution networks. • Temperature increase and extreme weather events reduce economic activity, GDP growth and hence sales levels fall.
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Input: The British Columbia Carbon Tax Act sets a carbon price of $40 per tonne of CO2e on fuel combustion and is expected to increase by $5 per tonne of CO2e per year, reaching the federal target carbon price of $50 on April 1, 2021. The federal government has stated this program meets the requirements of the federal Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act. The CleanBC Program for Industry directs an amount equal to the incremental carbon tax paid by industry above $30/tonne into incentives to reduce emissions. The Government of British Columbia has also introduced measures to reduce upstream methane emissions by 45 percent and establish separate sector-level benchmarks to reduce carbon tax costs for industrial facilities.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: International political, social and economic risks Equinor has international interests located in regions where political, social and economic instability could adversely affect Equinor’s business. Equinor has assets and operations located in diverse regions globally where potentially negative economic, social, and political developments could occur. These political risks and security threats require continuous monitoring. Uncertainty exists around the UK`s exit from the EU and the potential market impact.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: 64 exclusion lists of companies and countries, drawn up and updated periodically, with the help of an independent expert advisor. These lists include companies involved in controversial weapons and countries with high risk of violating human rights, which are automatically excluded from the list of companies in which BBVA can invest.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The Board of Directors has overall responsibility for ensuring that IAG has an appropriate risk management framework, including the determination of the nature and extent of risk it is willing to take to achieve its strategic objectives. The Board has oversight of the Group's operations to ensure that internal controls are in place and operate effectively. Management is responsible for the execution of the agreed plans.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The EBRD provided a total of €98 million to finance windfarm projects in Poland and invested 14 billion tenge (€63 million equivalent) in a wind farm in Kazakhstan, considered a highly promising country for renewable energy development. The Bank signed wind and solar energy projects in Romania and financed the construction of a new hydropower plant in Georgia that will be one of the country’s few privately owned, greenfield hydropower plants.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: JPMorgan Chase believes that companies must do even more to help solve today’s biggest challenges and create economic opportunity for more people. To do so, they must invest in communities the same way they invest in their own businesses. As announced in early 2018, our firm will deploy $1.75 billion by 2023 to drive inclusive growth in communities around the world. Generating Return on Community is one of our core objectives because we know that the future of our company depends on the well-being of our communities.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Water stress Household water scarcity caused by climate change is another physical risk, which is exacerbated by population growth and urbanisation. During periods of drought consumers may reduce their use of certain products including laundry detergents, shampoos and conditioners, and toilet cleaners as they are unable to access water to use them or experience declining water quality which limits their enjoyment and/or efficacy. While the overall impact of water stress on our sales, from both policy and physical impacts, was not found to be significant in our scenario analysis at a global level within the 2030 time horizon evaluated, the impacts we see in the short term tend to be more local.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Loan Business In line with the Group Credit Policy adopted based on the Board of Directors resolution, 'Our Fundamental Stance of Loan Business' clarifies the Group's intention to maintain a dialogue with customers who have not yet fully committed to addressing social and environmental issues with the purpose of encouraging their involvement. In addition, it explains the Group policy of abstaining from extending new loans to projects deemed to be exerting a major negative impact on the environment. Specifically, the Group will no longer finance projects associated with coal-fired thermal power generation, except when it finds compelling reasons for financing such projects, such as to realize economic restoration following a disaster. The Group is engaged in the screening and selection of candidate projects accordingly.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Broadly, the 2 degrees scenario demonstrated that IAG would incur additional operating costs, mainly as a result of the increased cost of carbon or other policy interventions. The 4 degrees scenario also demonstrated that IAG would incur additional operating costs, but in this case, these would more likely arise from increased cost of operational disruption due to increased frequency of extreme weather events.
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Input: In May 2020, BBVA was the first private financial institution in Europe to issue a COVID-19-related social bond and, two months later, the Bank was the first financial institution to issue contingent convertible perpetual bonds (CoCos) classified as green bonds, for EUR 1 billion. The funds will be used to finance eligible green assets in BBVA's portfolio. The portfolio is diversified into assets from different green sectors: energy efficiency, renewable energy, sustainable transportation, waste management and water management.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The Alberta Climate Leadership Plan, sets forth several commitments relevant to the oil and gas sector: (1) the implementation of an economy-wide carbon levy; (2) limiting of oil sands emissions to a province-wide total of 100 megatonnes per year (compared to current industry emissions levels of approximately 70 megatonnes per year), with certain exceptions for cogeneration power sources and new upgrading capacity; and (3) a goal to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas activities by 45 percent by 2025. The economy-wide carbon levy is based on a rate of $30 per tonne for 2018 and exempts activities integral to oil and gas production processes until 2023.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: During the year the Board received an update relating to the Group’s climate change strategy and approved a range of actions to support ongoing delivery, including strengthening the link between emissions performance and executive remuneration, establishing a new medium-term, science-based target for scope one and two emissions in line with the Paris Agreement, and the framework for a Climate Investment Program, which includes an amount of US$400 million as set out by the CEO in July 2019.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: IAG is exposed to multiple risks relating to its general insurance business. The risks noted below are not meant to represent an exhaustive list, but outline the material risks faced by the Group as identified in the RMS: strategic risk – the risk that internal or external factors compromise our ability to execute our strategic objectives or our strategy;
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In April 2018, the Group successfully completed a refinancing to convert floating to fixed debt and to extend the debt maturity out to November 2025. The Group issued a US$300 million bond with a fixed interest rate of 6.625%, which was swapped back to sterling upon issuance at an effective interest rate of 5%. The proceeds of the new issue were used to repay in full the £200 million floating rate bond issued in 2017 which had a maturity of 2022.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: $500 million 30-year bonds were priced with a coupon interest rate of 4.25 percent. The net proceeds from the issuance were used to finance or re-finance eligible projects as defined under OPG’s Green Bond Framework, namely, the November 2018 acquisition of Eagle Creek. OPG’s Green Bond Framework encompasses projects that offer tangible environmental benefits.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: R I S K - I N F O R M E D D E C I S I O N M A K I N G To achieve our business objectives and performance goals, we must ensure that our business strategies are aligned with the risks we face.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: JetBlue's workforce is broadly diversified among several job classifications, with Airport Operations crewmembers as the largest group at 31.3%. Nearly all (99.2%) of JetBlue's workforce is based in the United States. For more information on our workforce and crewmembers, see page 39. (TR0201-05)
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Climate change potentially has multiple effects that could harm the Group’s operations. The increasing scarcity of water resources may negatively affect the Group’s operations in some regions of the world, high sea levels may harm certain coastal activities, and the multiplication of extreme weather events may damage offshore and onshore facilities. These climate risk factors are continually assessed in the risk management and prevention plans.
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Input: Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions Scope 3 emissions are indirect greenhouse gas emissions as a consequence of the operations of the Company, but are not owned or controlled by the Company, such as emissions from third-party logistics providers, waste management suppliers, travel suppliers, employee commuting, and combustion of sold gas by customers.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: This is due to the diversity of our business. The scope and range of our products make it impossible to calculate a single production figure and our financial results are affected by commodity prices and foreign exchange rates, which are outside our control. As a result of the nature of the exploration, development and production cycle, our CO2 emissions do not necessarily correlate to our employee headcount.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: If Philips is unable to ensure effective supply chain management, e.g. facing an interruption of its supply chain, including the inability of third parties to deliver parts, components and services on time, and if it is subject to rising raw material prices, it may be unable to sustain its competitiveness in its markets.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Operational risks Operational risks relate to the losses resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems, or due to external events. These risks normally fall within our low-risk appetite level as there is no strategic benefit from accepting the risk and accepting that it is not in line with our vision and values.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The Group and its customers are exposed to climate related events, including climate change. These events include severe storms, drought, fires, cyclones, hurricanes, floods and rising sea levels. The Group and its customers may also be exposed to other events such as geological events (including volcanic seismic activity or tsunamis), plant and animal diseases or a pandemic.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Thus, the Board of Directors, upon recommendation of its Compensation & Governance Committee, and following a comparative review of national, European and industry practices, decided to maintain unchanged, for 2018, the Chief Executive Off icer’s target annual variable compensation, at €1.45 million, i.e. 100% of the amount of his annual fixed compensation.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: It is essential that risk assessment and risk-informed decision-making is integrated across all levels of our organization - from the board of directors through oversight of the risk management policy and program to executive leadership through the Risk Management Committee and to business operations.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: While we support well-designed carbon pricing, we’re prepared to oppose poorly designed proposals. For example, we opposed the ballot initiative to introduce a carbon fee in Washington State, US in November 2018. We believed that the policy was badly designed and would have harmed Washington’s economy without significantly reducing carbon emissions. The ballot was not passed.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: This structured approach applies to all of the Group’s operated businesses exposed to these risks. In addition to its drilling and pipeline transport operations, the Group has at the end of 2018 195 sites and operating zones exposed to major technological risks, which could cause harm or damage to people, property and the environment, corresponding to:
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Input: 4.3.4 Methods of stakeholder engagement are flexible and can be tailored according to different objectives. They may include surveys, meetings, written communication or any other channels, depending on the types of stakeholders. Given the areas of concerns and expectations may change over time, engagement should be an iterative process.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Last year the Aviva Foundation in the UK invested unclaimed assets of shareholders through grants and social enterprise investments. In 2019 the Foundation has now committed to giving £3.7 million to nine non-profit organisations and social enterprises that, working with our business, can support our communities and vulnerable customers. This has included funding counselling for vulnerable home insurance customers who experience trauma following serious events such as flooding.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: − Scope 3: Optional scope that includes indirect emissions associated with the goods and services supply chain produced outside the organization. Included are emissions from the transport of products from our logistics centres to stores (downstream) performed by external logistics operators (air, land and sea transport) as well as the emissions associated with electricity consumption in franchise stores.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: To bring focus to operational performance, we undertook a pilot certification of seven assets under BREEAM In Use. We will certify a further 30 assets over the next 24 months and have underpinned this goal with the announcement in March of a £450m ESG linked Revolving Credit Facility that requires a continual increase in green building certifications.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: For asset management companies belonging to a Group (most of the tested sample), inadequate internal supervision of the services (relating to IT, cybersecurity and business continuity) performed by the parent company was identified. But the technical execution of these services by the Group cannot exempt asset management companies from their responsibilities regarding the definition (in priority) of the main risk areas and management of the relevant controls.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: MELBOURNE BACKS BTR In June 2019, we entered into an agreement with developer PDG to deliver 490 purpose-built, BTR apartments as part of the $450 million Munro development in Melbourne’s CBD. The Munro development is a key project within the City of Melbourne’s $250 million renewal of the Queen Victoria Market precinct.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: There is also increased public focus, including by governmental and non-governmental organizations, on these and other environmental sustainability matters, including deforestation and land use. Our reputation could be damaged if we or others in our industry do not act, or are perceived not to act, responsibly with respect to our impact on the environment.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Although we have devoted significant resources to develop our risk management policies, procedures and methods, including with respect to market, credit, liquidity, operational as well as reputational and model risk, they may not be fully effective in mitigating our risk exposures in all economic market environments or against all types of risk, including risks that we fail to identify or anticipate.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Emission sources not reported This section of the report details the emission sources on which we have not reported and provides the reasons behind our decisions. Only a minority of the offices we operate directly make use of gas and we have included this in our emissions from combustion of fuel. We do not have distinct data on heat/steam for our other offices as this is most likely embedded in the office service charges that we pay. As a result, we have not currently reported on purchased heat or steam. In future we will devise a methodology to estimate the emissions associated with heating requirements for which we are responsible.
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Input: Our success in business depends on our ability to meet a range of environmental and social challenges. We must show we can operate safely and manage the effect our activities can have on neighbouring communities and society as a whole. If we fail to do this, we may incur liabilities or sanctions, lose business opportunities, harm our reputation, or our licence to operate may be impacted (see “Risk factors” on page 10).
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Built in 1924 on the Inn River channel, the run-of-river power plant with output of around 85 MW will be expanded and modernised. Following an investment period lasting around four years and with projected total capital expenditure of approximately €250m, about 32 MW of additional capacity will be available from 2023 onwards. The Gries hydropower plant was also inaugurated in 2019. This facility, which entailed an aggregate investment of around €50m, will supply around 10,000 households with green electricity from hydropower. Over the next three years, we are planning to invest a total of around €650m in the further expansion and maintenance of our hydropower facilities, thereby making a large contribution to mitigating climate change.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The Bank also signed a €19 million deal in 2019 in Poland with BNP Paribas Bank Polska to improve energy efficiency in existing homes. The Polish bank will use the money to give loans to farmers and homeowners to install solar panels. The money also will help housing associations improve energy efficiency.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: 64 exclusion lists of companies and countries, drawn up and updated periodically, with the help of an independent expert advisor. These lists include companies involved in controversial weapons and countries with high risk of violating human rights, which are automatically excluded from the list of companies in which BBVA can invest.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Identifying, quantifying and managing risk is complex and challenging. Although it is our policy and practice to identify and, where appropriate and practical, actively manage such risks to support objectives in managing capital and future financial security and flexibility, our policies and procedures may not adequately identify, monitor and quantify all risks.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: We embrace our responsibility to understand and manage our own carbon footprint. Our approach is to limit and minimise our direct carbon impact and create awareness to encourage positive sustainable behaviour. We have achieved net-zero carbon emissions status in February 2020 within our global operations and committed to ongoing carbon neutrality in all our direct global operations. Over the short-term we are looking into sourcing our energy from renewable sources.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: 4.3.4 Methods of stakeholder engagement are flexible and can be tailored according to different objectives. They may include surveys, meetings, written communication or any other channels, depending on the types of stakeholders. Given the areas of concerns and expectations may change over time, engagement should be an iterative process.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The Group considers risk management to be the key point in the financing business. We are therefore establishing a specialized risk management system that includes risk assessment standards specific to asset types, portfolio management, and monitoring methods. Under this management system, we will prioritize increasing transaction diversification as a concrete method of increasing operating assets exceeding ¥100 billion over the coming three years.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: EMISSIONS AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES The Panel recognizes that CEMEX has exposure to the risk of increased costs linked to carbon regulations, based on its focus on cement production, which is clearly highly carbon-intensive. Adding to this risk, the Panel asserts that ca. 80% of the company’s assets are located in locations with existing or impending carbon regulations. This reality elevates CEMEX’s overall level of risk in this area relative to peers.
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Input: Suzano also is involved and spearheads external activities - such as working groups and research partnerships - working with industry associations (e.g., Iba, CEBDS, Brazilian Coalition on Climate, Forests and Agriculture, etc.
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Input: The Group Compliance SU (CPLE) is responsible for the definition and consistency of the compliance risk prevention and control framework, and for coordinating the framework aimed at preventing, identifying, assessing and controlling reputational risk across the entire Group.
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Input: We manage these risks in each stage of the building cycle: We conduct deep due diligence during the acquisition phase which includes building resiliency, energy and water consumption, building safety and materials, social impacts on the local community, certifications, environmental regulations and risk of disasters such as earthquakes and flooding.
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Input: In the case of substantial risks at sector level in the field of corporate and project financing, the reporting chain is as follows: Similar mechanisms exist for banking risks, country risks, market price risks and operational risks.
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Input: In 2019, CAPCO issued a HK$170 million, 25-year New Energy Bond to fund the construction of the West New Territories Landfill energy-from-waste project, which was an inaugural green bond for Scheme of Control-regulated business. This waste-to-energy project allows CAPCO to use landfill gas as energy source, offsetting emissions from some of its coal-fired power generation units and achieving significant environmental benefits.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: A top risk is defined as having: (i) the potential to have a material impact, across a business area or geographical area, on the financial results, reputation or sustainability of the Group; (ii) the potential of occurring in the near future.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: CN invested $1.6 billion in basic track infrastructure in 2017 to improve the safety and fluidity of our network. The work included the replacement of more than 2.2 million cross ties and the installation of over 600 miles of new rail, as well as bridge repairs, branch line upgrades and other general track maintenance. In 2018, CN is targeting a record $3.2 billion in total capital investment, up
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Input: For many investors, climate change poses significant financial challenges and opportunities. The expected transition to a lower carbon economy is estimated to require around £2.7 trillion, on average, in energy sector investments a year for the foreseeable future, generating new investment opportunities. At the same time, the risk return profile of companies exposed to climate-related risks may change significantly because of physical impacts of climate change, climate policy or new technologies.
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Input: The inability to reform mortgage markets has dramatically reduced mortgage availability. In fact, our analysis shows that, conservatively, more than $1 trillion in additional mortgage loans might have been made over a five-year period had we reformed our mortgage system. J.P. Morgan analysis indicates that the cost of not reforming the mortgage markets could be as high as 0.2% of GDP a year.
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Input: The new index was built in three stages: - Firstly, Controversial Weapons Manufacturers were excluded from the universe of stocks that make up the FTSE All World Index universe, as the Trustee has a financial preference for avoiding such stocks where possible. - Secondly, a four-factor index was created (Value, Quality, Low Volatility and Low Size) that rebalances regularly through time to create a 'Balanced Factor' index with more attractive risk-return characteristics than the standard market capitalisation index. - Finally, three climate-related tilts were applied to the 'Balanced Factor' index to create a 'Climate Balanced Factor' index. The FTSE All World (ex CW) Climate Balanced Factor Index tilts away from Carbon Reserves and Carbon Emissions, whilst positively tilting towards Green Revenues. The tilts are set such that the inclusion of the climate-related tilts introduces a relatively modest tracking error compared to the Balanced Factor index without climate tilts. This allowed the Trustee to conclude that the new index was consistent with its fiduciary duty and provided an element of Climate Change protection.
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Input: The Group considers risk management to be the key point in the financing business. We are therefore establishing a specialized risk management system that includes risk assessment standards specific to asset types, portfolio management, and monitoring methods. Under this management system, we will prioritize increasing transaction diversification as a concrete method of increasing operating assets exceeding ¥100 billion over the coming three years.
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Input: First microfinance deal in Bulgaria We carried out our first commitment to microfinance in Bulgaria, by guaranteeing up to EUR 700,000 of a EUR 5.1m microcredit portfolio for the JOBS Microfinance Institution. The estimated 320 loans will have a particular emphasis on enterprises created by young entrepreneurs, women, artisans and small-scale farmers.
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Input: Our Integris Global Equity portfolios exclude companies that have material connections to certain controversial industries, e.g. fossil fuels, tobacco and weapons. We also exclude companies that score the worst overall ESG score (‘CCC’) as calculated by an independent external ESG research company, MSCI ESG Research, and at the end of December 2018, there were 174 companies excluded from the portfolios as a result of this ESG screen.
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Input: We anticipate that the potential effects of climate change may impact the decisions and analysis the employees in our Real Estate businesses make with respect to the properties they evaluate or manage on behalf of clients since climate change considerations may impact the relative desirability of locations and the cost of operating and insuring the properties. Future legislation that requires specific performance levels for building operations could make non-compliant buildings more expensive, which could materially affect investments in properties we have made on behalf of clients.
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Input: Santander has set a number of targets on climate change. In relation to commercial activity we have set a green finance target to raise and facilitate 120Bn euros between 2019 and 2025 and 220Bn euros between 2019 and 2030. This includes Santander overall contribution to green finance: project finance, syndicated loans, green bonds, capital finance, export finance, advisory and other products to help our clients in the transition to a low carbon economy.
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Input: We define short term as up to a year aligned with budget; medium term as 3-4 years aligned with budget planning; long term as 5-7 years aligned with strategic planning; and, for ad hoc analysis, we define longer term as beyond 7 years.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The quantitative investment strategies focus mainly on stock picking based on quality and valuation. It is precisely these strategies, which yield long-term value and are suitable for large portfolios, that tend to perform poorly in a context of highly accommodative central bank monetary policies. In 2019, all major quantitative investment styles performed poorly; stock picking based on valuation and quality and stock picking based on recent price trends both yielded negative returns. This combination is seldom seen.
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Input: The types of events that give rise to reputation risk are broad and could be introduced in various ways, including by the Firm’s employees and the clients, customers and counterparties with which the Firm does business. These events could result in financial losses, litigation and regulatory fines, as well as other damages to the Firm. As reputation risk is inherently difficult to identify, manage, and quantify, an independent reputation risk management governance function is critical.
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Input: JPMorgan Chase believes that companies must do even more to help solve today’s biggest challenges and create economic opportunity for more people. To do so, they must invest in communities the same way they invest in their own businesses. As announced in early 2018, our firm will deploy $1.75 billion by 2023 to drive inclusive growth in communities around the world. Generating Return on Community is one of our core objectives because we know that the future of our company depends on the well-being of our communities.
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Input: Four years ago, we began to significantly increase our exposure to the credit asset class which now stands at $18.3 billion at the end of 2019. We believe that rotating capital away from low-yielding, long-dated government bonds into higher-yielding credit investments provides for a better return on risk in the current low interest rate environment.
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Input: HayWired Resilient Business Challenge In 2018, JPMorgan Chase participated in the San Francisco HayWired Resilient Business Challenge, which is designed to help businesses increase their own preparedness and mitigate the impact an earthquake or other natural disaster could have on their ability to resume business activities.
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Input: In this document, section 4.3.1.3 (1) Financing and Investment Transactions Prohibited Regardless of Sector lists projects for which we prohibit any financing or investment. Sections 4.3.1.3 (2) Financing and Investment Transactions which Require Additional Due Diligence Regardless of Sector and 4.3.1.3 (3) Policies on Specific Industrial Sectors describe our practices for determining whether to engage in transactions with clients/projects in subject sectors, accounting for the degree to which the client has taken steps to avoid or mitigate risk and other due diligence as appropriate, based on the characteristics of the services we are providing.
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Input: This new focus is laid out in Eiffage’s 2020 business plan, with the decision to entrust the coordination of transversal innovation to the Sustainable Development department and make internal financial resources available to support the roll-out of the Group’s low-carbon offering. Created in 2016 and allocated an annual budget of €2 million, the E-Face fund supports the operational development of low-carbon offerings by funding the cost differential between a traditional solution and an alternative, low-emission solution for all eligible commercial projects undertaken by the Group. Apart from providing important leverage by co-financing the reduced carbon footprint of a project, the fund also helps identify low-carbon materials, products and processes that can easily be substituted for their high-carbon equivalents while introducing traceability of the carbon content of purchases for accounting purposes.
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Input: It is also used to identify what are known as emerging risks, in other words risks which could potentially have an adverse impact on the Group’s future performance, although their result and horizontal time frame are uncertain and difficult to predict (for further details see section ‘Emerging risks’ from chapter C. Background and upcoming challenges).
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Input: Growing concerns over air quality, road safety, sustainability and urban congestion, among consumers and society at large, are driving the regulations and policies for motor vehicles and urban development. These will impact choice of fuel, ownership patterns and will have a signicant impact on the future of the automotive industry.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Climate change means climate risk, not only physical risk but also transition risk – the risk associated with economic impacts of the transition to a low carbon economy. Future social developments, climate policy developments and technology developments are subject to high uncertainty, and these factors have a major impact on greenhouse gas emissions. There is also significant uncertainty with regard to how sensitive the climate system is to changes in greenhouse gas emissions, and uncertainty with regard to the effects of a given level of warming.
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Input: Company may not be able to offset such impact, including, for example, through higher freight rates. Climate change legislation and regulation could also affect CN's customers; make it difficult for CN's customers to produce products in a cost-competitive manner due to increased energy costs; and increase legal costs related to defending and resolving legal claims and other litigation related to climate change.
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Input: It is essential that risk assessment and risk-informed decision-making is integrated across all levels of our organization - from the board of directors through oversight of the risk management policy and program to executive leadership through the Risk Management Committee and to business operations.
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Input: The strategy involves not only a reduction of the Carbon dioxide footprint of the portfolio but also an innovative approach to aligning the portfolio with the two degree carbon reduction scenario in the future.
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Input: Our first £250-million, eight-year bond will mature in August 2025 with a return to investors of 1.625 per cent. Since the successful launch of that debt transaction, we have raised a further £627 million of Green Bonds to investors in the UK and the United States in accordance with the ICMA Green Bond Principles.
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Input: We ensure that all airport operations, flight, and inflight crewmembers are equipped with the knowledge to identify and respond to potential cases of human trafficking through their initial training and subsequent annual recurrent training. In addition, all crewmembers can take an online human trafficking course. Crewmembers are taught what human trafficking is, who the victims typically are, what signs to look for, and how to report information of suspected human trafficking.
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Input: This USD 310 million green bond carries a coupon rate of 4.75% and a 5-year maturity due 2023. The proceeds from the green bond are used to finance the following two green projects in the Greater Bay Area, both due for completion by the end of 2021. The “New World China
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Input: Impacts of Risks are consequences of risks, both quantitative and qualitative. There may be many consequences of risks manifesting, such as a reduction in earnings and capital, liquidity outflows, and fines or penalties, or qualitative impacts such as reputation damage, loss of clients and customers, and regulatory and enforcement actions.
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Input: - African Americans, Asians, and Hispanics/Latinos combined make up 13.7% of the aircraft pilots and flight engineers in the U.S. - Women make up 3% of aircraft mechanics and service technicians.
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Input: 8.2.12. As part of its approach to Responsible Investment, the Trustee considers a range of ESG risks, including corporate governance, human rights, bribery and corruption as well as labour and environmental standards. Of the environmental and social issues that we consider, we believe that climate change presents a material financial risk to the assets held in our portfolios. signed the Global Investor Statements to Governments on Climate Change.
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Input: In addition, we recognize the scientific consensus that climate change is a reality of increasing concern, indicated by higher concentrations of greenhouse gases, a warming atmosphere and ocean, diminished snow and ice, and sea level rise. We understand that climate change potentially poses a serious financial threat to society as a whole, with implications for the insurance industry in areas such as catastrophe risk perception, pricing and modeling assumptions, particularly if the frequency and severity of natural catastrophic events continue to increase. Because there is significant variability associated with the impacts of climate change, we cannot predict how physical, legal, regulatory and social responses may impact our business.
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Input: Prior to submission to the Board of Directors for final approval, investment decisions are reviewed by the EBRD Investment Committee (OpsCom). OpsCom is chaired by the First Vice President and Head of Client Services Group and includes representatives of all relevant functions involved in the business activity, including Banking, Legal, Risk Management, and the Economics, Policy and Governance team looking after the mandated objectives of the EBRD.
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Input: - CaixaBank voluntarily applies this procedure to sy - ndicated operations with a term of 3 years or more and when CaixaBank's individual commitment is between $7 million and $35 million.
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Input: Operational risks are inherent in the Barclays Bank Group’s business activities and it is not cost effective or possible to attempt to eliminate all operational risks. The Operational Risk Framework is therefore focused on identifying operational risks, assessing them and managing them within the Barclays Bank Group’s approved risk appetite.
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Input: 25II. STRATEGY: ACTUAL AND POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF CLIMATE-RELATED RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES ON BNP PARIBAS' BUSINESSES, STRATEGY AND FINANCIAL PLANNING nus. A total of 1,057 Auto Ecologiques loan were issued in 2019 amounting to $27 million. - BDDF also launched EnergiBio, a lower-rate consumer loan used to fund energy renovation projects. - In Belgium, BNP Paribas Fortis offers green mortgage loans to make homes more energy ef- ficient (construction of new homes or renovations of existing homes), which amounted to $3.6 billion at end-2019. - In the United States, Bank of the West offers lower rates on certain home loans to promote en- ergy efficiency renovations.
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Input: e/million tonne The Employee Performance Scorecards (EPS) of the CFO and VicePresident Financial Planning include improvements in CN's fuel efficiency, in line with the Canadian rail industry medium-term emission intensity reduction target and the company's long-term science-based target.
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Input: We aim to promote equal opportunities by inspiring underrepresented groups to take up STEM fields by exposing them to aviation employment options and opportunities. By fueling the pipeline today through our support of educational initiatives and STEM programs, we will help to ensure more diverse perspectives in the hangars and boardrooms of the future.
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Input: Over the last two years, the CGEN has encouraged the Group to make strong com- mitments when it comes to managing climate-re- lated risks and opportunities, in various ways: re- ducing support for the coal sector, strengthening the Group's climate goals, etc.
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Input: We also invested €4.3 million in energy efficiency projects which reduced energy consumption by 300 million MJ. Projects that contributed to this achievement include cooling improvements in eight countries, improvements in lighting efficiency in 12 countries, electrical power optimisation in three countries and heat recovery from ground water in Hungary. Air and steam leakage prevention programmes were also implemented at all 66 of our production sites during the year.
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Input: The second half of 2017 had unprecedented weather events, particularly in Florida and the Caribbean. Hurricanes Irma and Maria resulted in over 2,500 canceled flights or 3% of departures. Following large weather events, it is common to see lingering demand impact similar to what we experienced in New York, following superstorm Sandy in 2012.
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Input: 14 those related to our products and services, demand and distribution, financial performance, credit rating and debt obligations. Given that developments concerning the COVID-19 pandemic have been constantly evolving, additional impacts and risks may arise that we are not aware of or able to appropriately respond to at this time.
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Input: We meet the financing needs of our customers with a broad and modern product range. The focus of the portfolio is on traditional owner-occupied home financing and the financing of real estate capital investments (residential mortgage loans and investment properties with a total EaD of €61bn). We provide our business customers with credit in the form of individual loans with a volume of €14bn. In addition, we meet our customers’ day-to-day demand for credit with consumer loans (consumer and instalment loans, credit cards to a total of €10bn).
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Input: Energy efficient by design We focus on achieving high sustainability standards on our developments, optimising energy efficiency and generating renewable energy on site, rather than buying offsets for carbon neutrality. Our approach delivers cost savings for occupiers, well managed buildings for the people who work, shop and live in them and better assets for investors. We have delivered energy savings for occupiers of £13 million over six years, at the same time as optimising lighting, temperatures and air quality for wellbeing and efficiency. We are also improving energy modelling and piloting Soft Landings to close the gap between efficient design and performance.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Reputation: In managing our reputation we seek to avoid the loss of credibility due to internal or external factors. Many types of risk have the potential to negatively impact our corporate reputation. Internal business practices, or those of our business partners or the companies in which we invest, may generate reputation harm. Consequences include diminished brand efficacy in commercial markets, impeding our ability to execute our strategy and our status as investor, partner and employer of choice.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Water stress Household water scarcity caused by climate change is another physical risk, which is exacerbated by population growth and urbanisation. During periods of drought consumers may reduce their use of certain products including laundry detergents, shampoos and conditioners, and toilet cleaners as they are unable to access water to use them or experience declining water quality which limits their enjoyment and/or efficacy. While the overall impact of water stress on our sales, from both policy and physical impacts, was not found to be significant in our scenario analysis at a global level within the 2030 time horizon evaluated, the impacts we see in the short term tend to be more local.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In addition, we recognize the scientific consensus that climate change is a reality of increasing concern, indicated by higher concentrations of greenhouse gases, a warming atmosphere and ocean, diminished snow and ice, and sea level rise. We understand that climate change potentially poses a serious financial threat to society as a whole, with implications for the insurance industry in areas such as catastrophe risk perception, pricing and modeling assumptions, particularly if the frequency and severity of natural catastrophic events continue to increase. Because there is significant variability associated with the impacts of climate change, we cannot predict how physical, legal, regulatory and social responses may impact our business.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The Group considers risk management to be the key point in the financing business. We are therefore establishing a specialized risk management system that includes risk assessment standards specific to asset types, portfolio management, and monitoring methods. Under this management system, we will prioritize increasing transaction diversification as a concrete method of increasing operating assets exceeding ¥100 billion over the coming three years.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: AXA and the IFC, a member of the World Bank Group focused on the private sector, launched a US$500 million partnership in 2017, supporting an infrastructure fund that will notably finance green infrastructures in emerging countries, including renewable energy, water, green transport and telecoms. At the end of 2019, mandatory loans amount to US$390 million, of which US$120 million has already been financed. Coal and oil- sands related projects are explicitly excluded.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: For our stakeholders: for customers, breaches in security may cause personal loss (both financial and emotional). There may also be consequences for relations with suppliers and intermediaries. For investors, any loss of business or reputation could result in lower returns. PSD2 will increase consumers’ control over financial data, but also their responsibility for this data.
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Input: The impact of climate change may over time affect the operations of the Group and the markets in which the Group operates. This could include physical risks such as acute and chronic changes in weather and/or transitional risks such as technological development, policy and regulatory change, and market and economic responses. Efforts to address climate change through laws and regulations, for example by requiring reductions in emissions of GHGs such as CO2, can create economic risks and uncertainties for the Group’s businesses. Such risks could include the cost of purchasing allowances or credits to meet GHG emissions caps, the cost of installing equipment to reduce emissions to comply with GHG limits or required technological standards, decreased profits or losses arising from decreased demand for the Group’s goods and higher production costs resulting directly or indirectly from the imposition of legislative or regulatory controls. Manifestation of these increased costs may increase the underlying cost of production of the Group’s products which may adversely impact the financial performance of the Group.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: By their very nature, these forward-looking statements require assumptions to be made and involve inherent risks and uncertainties, both general and specific. Assumptions about the performance of the Canadian and U.S. economies in 2020, including in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how that affect the Bank's business are among the main factors considered in setting the Bank's strategic priorities and objectives.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Loan Business In line with the Group Credit Policy adopted based on the Board of Directors resolution, 'Our Fundamental Stance of Loan Business' clarifies the Group's intention to maintain a dialogue with customers who have not yet fully committed to addressing social and environmental issues with the purpose of encouraging their involvement. In addition, it explains the Group policy of abstaining from extending new loans to projects deemed to be exerting a major negative impact on the environment. Specifically, the Group will no longer finance projects associated with coal-fired thermal power generation, except when it finds compelling reasons for financing such projects, such as to realize economic restoration following a disaster. The Group is engaged in the screening and selection of candidate projects accordingly.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The ability to enable a fast and effective response to, and recovery from, disruptive events. The effectiveness of this element is determined by the thoroughness of efforts to plan, prepare and exercise in advance of events.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In July 2019, NGO Friends of the Earth Netherlands and its Indonesia and Liberia affiliates notified the Dutch NCP that ING may be in breach of the OECD Guidelines by financing palm oil-related activities. In its initial assessment published January 2020, the NCP did not express an opinion on either the accuracy of the allegations made by the NGOs or the response provided by ING.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Since 2016 we have also been working with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), using their mapping to identify parts of Australia with low rainfall and those areas more likely to experience rainfall variation. (Fig 1 - Rainfall Annual 30-year average (1986-2015)). When customers purchase properties in these areas, we test their financial resilience to climatic events like rainfall variation and drought. Customers with lower resilience may be subject to enhanced underwriting standards, for example, loan approval may be dependent on a lower loan to valuation ratio, higher repayments, or evidence of savings or equity. Our bankers also need to document the customer's knowledge of recent rainfall and climate trends where their farm is located and, if relevant, how they manage water budgets for irrigation.
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Input: 4) After segmentation, a calibration phase is proposed. In this phase, it is necessary to select five clients from each established segment minimally and to estimate the impact on their default probability against the established revenue, cost and investment impacts. There is no single way to apply this step, and it can be constructed either quantitatively or qualitatively.
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Input: For our stakeholders: for customers, breaches in security may cause personal loss (both financial and emotional). There may also be consequences for relations with suppliers and intermediaries. For investors, any loss of business or reputation could result in lower returns. PSD2 will increase consumers’ control over financial data, but also their responsibility for this data.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Climate change is a long-term risk associated with high uncertainty regarding timing, scope and severity of potential impacts. The risks for insurers can be grouped into physical risks and transition risks. Physical risks relate to losses from climate trends (i.e. changing weather patterns and sea level rise) and climate events (i.e. extreme weather and natural disasters). These physical risks impact property & casualty (P&C) insurance, but also life insurance, for instance through higher than expected mortality rates. Losses can also follow from credit risk and collateral linked to the mortgage portfolio. Aegon is exposed to mortality risk and mortgage underwriting risks and has limited exposure to P&C risk, including catastrophic risk. Beyond insured losses from physical climate damages, climate change can increase uninsured damages and losses and may have disrupting and cascading effects on the wider economy and across the financial system. The second category of risks is associated with the transition to a low-carbon economy. These transition risks can affect the value of assets and impact the investments portfolios of insurers. Furthermore, it cannot be ruled out that Aegon itself is unable to adjust to environmental and sustainability goals. The transition risks are determined by largely uncertain factors such as policy and regulatory changes, political, social and market dynamics and technological innovations. Linked to both the physical and the transition risks, there could be litigation and reputational risks following from not fully considering or responding to the impacts of climate change, or not providing appropriate disclosure of current and future risks. The risks can relate both to Aegon and the companies in which it invests.
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Input: - Other subjects: The Group is also participating in a study by the French Association of Private Companies (AFEP) on the comparison of 2 C scenarios and in a different study by Entreprises pour l'Environnement (EpE) ZEN 2050 on the decarbonisation of the French economy by 2050.
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Input: - The investments in our own investment portfolio ($4.4bn; including cash) are mainly concentrated in government bonds and fixed income instruments issued by European financial institutions; see our annual report 2019, pp.
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Input: ■ In addition, failure to adequately prepare for the potential impacts of climate change may have a negative impact on our financial position or our ability to operate. Potential impacts may be direct or indirect and may include business losses or disruption resulting from extreme weather conditions; the impact of changes in legal or regulatory framework made to address climate change; or increased mortality or morbidity resulting from environmental damage or climate change.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: AGL's Risk Management Policy, which has been approved by AGL's Board, mandates that management utilise risk management principles in decision-making, and requires all AGL people to consider their functions and roles and how to manage risks arising from their business decisions and activities. AGL's Statement of Risk Appetite, reviewed annually by the ARMC, sets out AGL's risk appetite in relation to strategic, financial, market and operational risks, as well as AGL's risk tolerance (which in turn identifies activities for which AGL has no appetite).
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Input: These sector-specific policies are usually developed by the AI taking into account relevant industry certification schemes, international practices, its strategy, level of exposure to the particular sector, and even its engagement with customers, industry experts, shareholders and the community.
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Input: This long-term perspective is reflected in the choice of strategic portfolio, which includes both the long-term distribution of capital over various broad asset classes as well as strategies that determine the distribution within each asset class of individual securities.
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Input: A key part of our progress to meet our target, was the allocation of £250 million to real assets covering real estate, infrastructure, forestry and agricultural land to Townsend Group. The mandate places a high priority on long term responsible investments that meet our financial targets, with a preference to invest positively in sustainable real assets such as energy efficient buildings, renewable energy projects, public transport, water treatment facilities, eco-friendly farming, and sustainable forestry. A case study on our investment in the Threadneedle Low Carbon Workplace Fund is illustrated below.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: We fail to respond to the emerging threats from climate change for our investment portfolios and wider businesses As a significant investor in financial markets, commercial real estate and housing, we are exposed to climate related transition risks, particularly should abrupt shifts in the political and technological landscape impact the value of those investment assets associated with higher levels of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Input: Limited transportation infrastructure risks The profitability of Equinor’s oil and gas production in a remote area may be affected by an infrastructure constraint Equinor's ability to commercially exploit discovered petroleum resources will depend, among other factors, on infrastructure to transport oil and gas to potential buyers at a commercial price. Oil is transported by vessels, rail or pipelines to refineries, and natural gas by pipeline or vessels (for liquefied natural gas) to processing plants and end users. Equinor may be unsuccessful in its efforts to secure transportation and markets for all its potential production.
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Input: Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of natural disasters. According to a report by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), there were 7,255 natural disasters worldwide within the 20 years from 1998 to 2017, and 91% of them were climate-related. Moreover, among disasters associated with climate change, such as floods, storms, drought and heat waves, damage from floods and storms is particularly heavy, and the number of such disasters increased 2.2 times compared with the previous 20 years.
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Input: Risk committees Effective risk management requires company-wide risk governance. ING's risk and control structure is based on the 'three lines of defence' governance model, whereby each line has a specific role and defined responsibilities and the execution and control of tasks are separated. At the same time, the three lines have to work closely together to identify, assess and mitigate risks. This governance framework is designed to manage risk in line with ING's overall risk appetite as approved by the Management Board Banking, Executive Board and Supervisory Board.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In late 2017, CN committed to purchasing 200 new alternating current traction locomotives over the next three years to accommodate future growth opportunities and drive operational efficiency across the system. CN’s order is the largest among Class I railways since 2014. These high-horsepower engines are equipped with advanced digital technologies to optimize power distribution, train handling, brake control and fuel utilization.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Climate change also threatens our food system which must produce 50% more food to feed over 9 billion people by 2050. However, changing weather patterns and growing seasons threaten suitable cultivation areas around the world. Business can spur positive change and achieving food security could create 80 million jobs and business opportunities worth $2.3 trillion annually by 2030. Linked to climate change is water scarcity, a threat to 3.2 billion people. If current usage continues the world will have only 60% of its required water by 2030. See pages 30 and 33 to 35 for more on climate change risks.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: We recognize that there is potentially a lot of uncertainty regarding how to quantify these impacts and that reasonable people can differ in their assessments. As our collective knowledge and understanding of these mechanisms evolve, it is possible that the quantification of these scenarios may also change.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Cities account for 75 per cent of worldwide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. EBRD Green Cities, a programme that supports sustainable urban planning and investment, is central to Bank efforts to curb climate change. Under the initiative in 2018, the EBRD invested €265 million in 10 projects which together are expected to reduce GHG emissions by 319,000 tonnes annually. Donors help to fund the action plans that are the centrepiece of EBRD Green Cities and other aspects of the programme.
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Input: DRAFT 1 d4a Changing regulatory requirements AnnualReport- We take our regulatory obligations seriously and manage non-compliance with regulatory requirements as a risk, with supporting risk appetite statements set by the Board.
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Input: Energy reductions from LEED certification retrofits are expected to be between 18-39%iii since the energy consumption starting point varies for every building. As energy is typically 25% of a residential building's total operating expenses, energy savings from LEED certification are expected to be between 4.5-10% of the total operating expenses.
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Input: International political, social and economic risks Equinor has international interests located in regions where political, social and economic instability could adversely affect Equinor’s business. Equinor has assets and operations located in diverse regions globally where potentially negative economic, social, and political developments could occur. These political risks and security threats require continuous monitoring. Uncertainty exists around the UK`s exit from the EU and the potential market impact.
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Input: In the case of substantial risks at sector level in the field of corporate and project financing, the reporting chain is as follows: Similar mechanisms exist for banking risks, country risks, market price risks and operational risks.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Climate change may also lead to temperature increases, droughts, floods, hurricanes, etc., which may shift access to and alter cycles of different kinds of crops, rendering certain crop fields unusable for agriculture. Merchandise transportation may be affected as well if extreme weather conditions interfere with accessibility. Deciding whether to open a new store or not may be hindered if flood risks increase.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In late 2017, CN committed to purchasing 200 new alternating current traction locomotives over the next three years to accommodate future growth opportunities and drive operational efficiency across the system. CN’s order is the largest among Class I railways since 2014. These high-horsepower engines are equipped with advanced digital technologies to optimize power distribution, train handling, brake control and fuel utilization.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: We have longstanding expertise in planning for seismic events by incorporating seismic gas shutoff valves, increased sprinkler seismic bracing and locking sprinkler valves in the open position for relevant projects. We are currently exploring a range of mitigation strategies to cope with potential sea level rise. This includes putting important equipment on risers or relocating it from basements entirely.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: ■ While our facilities and operations are distributed across the globe, we can experience extreme weather, natural disasters, civil unrest, human-made disasters, power outages, pandemic, and other events which can prevent access to, and operations within, the facilities for our employees, partners, and other parties that support our business operations.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: A top risk is defined as having: (i) the potential to have a material impact, across a business area or geographical area, on the financial results, reputation or sustainability of the Group; (ii) the potential of occurring in the near future.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Public Perception of Alberta Oil Sands Development of the Alberta oil sands has received considerable attention in recent public commentary on the subjects of environmental impact, climate change and GHG emissions. Despite that much of the focus is on bitumen mining operations and not in situ production, public concerns about oil sands generally and GHG emissions, water and land use practices and indigenous engagement in oil sands developments specifically may, directly or indirectly, impair the profitability of our current oil sands projects, and the viability of future oil sands projects, by creating significant regulatory uncertainty leading to uncertainty in economic modeling of current and future projects and delays relating to the sanctioning of future projects.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Ultimately, sustainable growth is also about culture and tone from the top. Leaders across the bank promote our efforts, articulate its importance and champion the work needed to deliver sustainable growth well into the future.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Project STOP was formally kicked-off in July 2017 and publicly announced at the Our Oceans Conference 2017 in Malta. Implementation of the first city partnership project started in April 2018 in Muncar, East Java, Indonesia. Muncar is a major fishing port suffering from plastic litter in its harbour, beaches and rivers.
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Input: We are committed to net zero. At the same time, we cannot see a viable path to a 100 percent reduction in our greenhouse gas emissions based on our current or potential asset mix and technologies. Committing to 100 percent carbon- and methane-free operations, without adequate technology and forceful policy and regulatory prescriptions, would jeopardize our mandate to provide safe, reliable, and affordable energy to our customers.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Of this, ¥8 trillion will be used for environmental finance aimed at helping counter climate change and otherwise addressing environmental concerns. Specifically, we will help popularize renewable energy via project finance while issuing Green Bonds whose net proceeds are allocated to Eligible Green Projects. We will also deliver other products and services designed to help reduce the environmental burden, with the aim of supporting the transition to a decarbonized society. (Please also refer to page 58 for details.)
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: � We have committed to have an additional 3,000 megawatts of new solar and wind — enough to power 750,000 homes — under development or in operation by the beginning of 2022. This is incremental to the nearly 1,800 megawatts of company-owned or -partnered solar generating capacity that had entered service by the end of 2018.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: As our activities advance, the metrics and targets we use to monitor our success will likely evolve as well. Through our participation in industry groups, we intend to continue developing appropriate metrics that can be adopted consistently by financial institutions to provide comparable, decision-useful information to investors.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The sensitivity analysis does not show a comprehensive picture of all potential scenarios. Further, variables do not tend to move in isolation, nor in a uniform or consistent manner, and the analysis does not show the potentially infinite number of permutations, and resultant impacts, that might arise in reality as a consequence.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The physical risks of climate change are divided into acute and chronic risks. Acute risks include risks related to extreme weather events, such as floods and hurricanes. Chronic risks include, for example, permanently higher temperatures and the ensuing sea level rise. Sectors particularly exposed to physical risks include the forest sector, agriculture and real estate, to name a few.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Application - Projects with high and irreversible risks and po - tential impact, where it is not deemed possible to establish a viable action plan, or projects that con - travene the Bank's corporate values, are rejected.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: CORPORATE AND HOUSEHOLD DEBT 25 carried out a benchmark study of the banks’ calculated risk weights for exposures to commercial real estate. The results of the two analyses showed that there is a risk that the capital banks have earmarked for lending to commercial real estate will not sufficiently compensate for the credit losses that could arise following a severe financial stress. It is against this background that FI proposes higher capital requirements for lending to commercial real estate (see “Stability in the banking sector”).
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The scientific community has concluded that increasing global average temperatures produces significant physical effects, such as the increased frequency and severity of hurricanes, storms, droughts, floods or other extreme climatic events that could interfere with Eni’s operations and damage Eni’s facilities. Extreme and unpredictable weather phenomena can result in material disruption to Eni’s operations, and consequent loss of or damage to properties and facilities, as well as a loss of output, loss of revenues, increasing maintenance and repair expenses and cash flow shortfall.
Symbol:
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Input: RISK TOLERANCE We have a low tolerance for risk, when it comes to protecting the human and environmental resources we all depend on. However, given the long-term nature of some sustainability risks and the level of uncertainty associated with their occurrence and impact, we accept that some risks are inevitable. We therefore focus on helping to minimise global risks while building resilience in our operations and supply chain. EXAMPLES OR RISKS • Resource scarcity, coupled with increasing demand, could affect the production, availability, quality and cost of raw materials. • Increased frequency of extreme weather events, from floods to droughts, could cause disruption in our supply chain and impact our business model by changing the sourcing of raw materials, as well as the production and distribution of finished goods. • Increased regulation and more stringent environmental standards could impact our business by affecting production costs and flexibility of operations. • Our industry is sustained by many agricultural and manufacturing communities around the world. Failure to support them in preserving key skills and building more sustainable livelihoods could cause social, economic and operational challenges, from community tensions and disruption to production to a reduced talent pool.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Reputational risk In 2019 and in recent years, there has continued to be a range of material risk events such as service outages and data compromises in the market. These impact the reputation of the financial services industry as a whole and potentially threaten consumer confidence in both the reliability of services and the safety of their data and savings.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: If the Barclays Bank Group does not adequately embed risks associated with climate change into its risk framework to appropriately measure, manage and disclose the various financial and operational risks it faces as a result of climate change, or fails to adapt its strategy and business model to the changing regulatory requirements and market expectations on a timely basis, it may have a material and adverse impact on the Barclays Bank Group’s level of business growth, competitiveness, profitability, capital requirements, cost of funding, and financial condition.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: No changes have been made to the Bank Windhoek exclusion list, which is used to assess clients against activities that are not permitted due to unacceptable environmental and social impacts. No applications were declined on account of high risk, the exclusion list or any other environmental or social related reasons. No loans were turned down on account of the ESMS and there are no clients at risk of material breaches of environmental laws and regulations or unacceptable social and environmental impacts.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Suzano also is involved and spearheads external activities - such as working groups and research partnerships - working with industry associations (e.g., Iba, CEBDS, Brazilian Coalition on Climate, Forests and Agriculture, etc.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Risk committees Effective risk management requires company-wide risk governance. ING's risk and control structure is based on the 'three lines of defence' governance model, whereby each line has a specific role and defined responsibilities and the execution and control of tasks are separated. At the same time, the three lines have to work closely together to identify, assess and mitigate risks. This governance framework is designed to manage risk in line with ING's overall risk appetite as approved by the Management Board Banking, Executive Board and Supervisory Board.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: 5.2.11 Conflict minerals: issues further down the chain In line with Philips’ commitment to supply-chain sustainability, we are concerned about the situation in eastern DRC (the Democratic Republic of the Congo), where proceeds from the mining sector are used to finance rebel conflicts in the region. Philips does not directly source minerals from the DRC and the mines are typically seven or more tiers away from our direct suppliers. Philips nevertheless feels obliged to address this issue through the means and influencing mechanisms available to us.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: This transition does not, however, automatically translate into a financial risk for us. For example, motor insurance is the most important business line of the re/insurance sector globally. According to Swiss Re's sigma database, it currently represents approximately 33% of global non-life gross written premiums and is expected to grow further, albeit at a lower rate.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Advisory Services continue to be an important part of our business. We anticipate 528 new assignments in 2019, about the same level as 2018, to support €45 billion in investments. We are committed to dedicating at least 25% of own-lending capacity to climate projects annually, and to increasing from 25% to 35% the share of financing for developing countries dedicated to climate action. We have committed to financing a total of $100 billion in climate action investments globally from 2016 to 2020. The Bank will also continue to focus on infrastructure projects, particularly those that reduce waste and preserve resources.
Symbol:
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Input: Should oil and gas prices remain at current levels or continue to decline we expect, in addition to the direct impact on the value of our oil and gas assets, there may be negative impacts on our other investments (including our debt and real estate portfolio) which are difficult to estimate.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: This is due to the diversity of our business. The scope and range of our products make it impossible to calculate a single production figure and our financial results are affected by commodity prices and foreign exchange rates, which are outside our control. As a result of the nature of the exploration, development and production cycle, our CO2 emissions do not necessarily correlate to our employee headcount.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: We also assess risks on the basis of their potential impact on the value of our franchise, which is supported by our reputation, brand and good customer relationships. Conduct and operational risks, such as cyber security breaches, data loss and IT systems failure, in particular have the potential to significantly impact our franchise value.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Over the last two years, the CGEN has encouraged the Group to make strong com- mitments when it comes to managing climate-re- lated risks and opportunities, in various ways: re- ducing support for the coal sector, strengthening the Group's climate goals, etc.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Additionally, IEA scenarios provide a 2050 timeframe but considering the average transaction profile timeline, a shorter timeframe had to be considered when defining operational targets for the Bank. This timeframe should be short enough to allow the monitoring of the Bank portfolio and long enough to absorb short term evolutions. This timeframe should also allow readapting the Bank's targets to updated or new IEA scenarios to come.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: 51 In February 2020, BlackRock made a charitable contribution of its 20% stake in PennyMac Financial Services, Inc. to the BlackRock Foundation, a newly established corporate foundation, and the BlackRock Charitable Fund, a donor- advised fund, which was established in 2013.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Reputation Risk: This is the risk of loss of credibility due to internal or external factors and is often related to, or results from, other categories of risk. This risk can arise from our internal business practices or those of our business partners or the companies in which we invest. Business partners include third parties hired to perform some of our administrative functions as well as investment organizations with which we have a contractual arrangement. A loss of reputation could impact our position as a partner, investor and employer of choice and impede our ability to execute our strategy.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Given the significant impact of this period of uncertainty on both Canadian businesses and companies and governments around the world, and the resulting volatility in financial markets, we expect to see significant effects on several of our financial statement line items and on our financial results in 2020. The timing and size of those impacts is not possible to forecast at this time.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In April 2018, the Group successfully completed a refinancing to convert floating to fixed debt and to extend the debt maturity out to November 2025. The Group issued a US$300 million bond with a fixed interest rate of 6.625%, which was swapped back to sterling upon issuance at an effective interest rate of 5%. The proceeds of the new issue were used to repay in full the £200 million floating rate bond issued in 2017 which had a maturity of 2022.
Symbol:
| Climate Event |
Input: We may be subject to unionization, work stoppages, slowdowns or increased labor costs and the unionization of the Company’s pilots and inflight crewmembers could result in increased labor costs. Our business is labor intensive and the unionization of any of our crewmembers could result in demands that may increase our operating expenses and adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations. Any of the different crafts or classes of our crewmembers could unionize at any time, which would require us to negotiate in good faith with the crewmember group’s certified representative concerning a collective bargaining agreement. In addition, we may be subject to disruptions by unions protesting the non-union status of our other crewmembers. Any of these events would be disruptive to our operations and could harm our business.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Dominion East Ohio Pipeline Infrastructure Replacement Program In 2008, our local natural gas distribution company serving 1.2 million customer accounts in Ohio began replacing bare steel, cast iron, wrought iron and copper pipe. Over the next 20 years, we plan to spend at least $160 million annually—also recovered in customer rates—to both replace aging pipes and reduce methane emissions into the air.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: These exercises highlight that not enough data are available for a bottom-up approach, assessing the vulnerabilities specific to Group clients and incorporating their response and remediation functions on a forward-looking basis.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Reputation: In managing our reputation we seek to avoid the loss of credibility due to internal or external factors. Many types of risk have the potential to negatively impact our corporate reputation. Internal business practices, or those of our business partners or the companies in which we invest, may generate reputation harm. Consequences include diminished brand efficacy in commercial markets, impeding our ability to execute our strategy and our status as investor, partner and employer of choice.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In anticipation of regulatory policies we are seeking to take advantage of the opportunity to deliver sustainable solutions for our clients. One example is our Mission 2030 statement, in which we state that we want to raise the average energy performance of all buildings financed by ABN AMRO to energy label 'A' by 2030. By starting this process, we mitigate the transition risk of these upcoming regulatory policies that may materialise soon. Our progress on this target is shown in the 2019 Non-Financial Data & Engagement report.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Exposure to Extractives Industries It is important to identify exposure to business activities in extractives industries in order to assess the potential risk of ‘stranded assets’. ‘Stranded assets’ are assets that may suffer from premature write-downs and may even become obsolete due to changes in policy or consumer behaviour. This is a real potential risk for assets in extractives industries as we transition to a lower carbon future.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: However, in France, employees are involved in the Bank's long-term development through profit-sharing and/or incentive schemes. They are linked to the Company's overall performance (financial and non-financial) and regulated by Societe Generale agreements signed with the trade unions every three years. For Societe Generale SA in France, out of the total amount of profit-sharing and incentives paid in 2018 for the financial year 2017, 4% was relating to
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Now, these older coal and gas plants are being shuttered in the UK and being replaced by intermittent renewable energy sources, principally wind. This reduces carbon emissions but makes the provision of these system support services more challenging. Wind, by its nature, is intermittent and, for the most part, unable to provide system support services.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Cities account for 75 per cent of worldwide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. EBRD Green Cities, a programme that supports sustainable urban planning and investment, is central to Bank efforts to curb climate change. Under the initiative in 2018, the EBRD invested €265 million in 10 projects which together are expected to reduce GHG emissions by 319,000 tonnes annually. Donors help to fund the action plans that are the centrepiece of EBRD Green Cities and other aspects of the programme.
Symbol:
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Input: – Omissions Emissions associated with joint ventures and investments are not included in the emissions disclosure as they fall outside the scope of our operational boundary. We do not have any emissions associated with heat, steam or cooling. We are not aware of any other material sources of omissions from our emissions reporting.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: At the beginning of 2019, VINCI Airports signed a memorandum of understanding with the Portuguese government to extend Lisbon’s airport capacity. It provides for upgrading the existing Humberto Delgado Airport and building a new civil airport on the Montijo Air base opposite the city at the eastern end of the Tagus estuary. VINCI Airports will invest €1.15 billion over the next 10 years in this two-pronged project.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In terms of piloting, we are analysing CIB listed companies sub-portfolio data (about 30 percent of the total in terms of EAD of given portfolio) while for remaining companies we are applying proxies based on sector and size of the company.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The investment horizon is between 3 and 15 years, because shorter investment horizons than this risk creating restrictions in the management, which can lead to poorer earnings, in part due to lower liquidity. Evaluation is over a rolling five-year period and the outcome of individual years should be interpreted with caution since strategic positions are taken in the medium term.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: There is also increased focus, including by governmental and non-governmental organizations, investors, customers and consumers on these and other environmental sustainability matters, including deforestation, land use, climate impact and recyclability or recoverability of packaging, including plastic. Our reputation can be damaged if we or others in our industry do not act, or are perceived not to act, responsibly with respect to our impact on the environment.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In regard to public policy risks, S&P Global monitors and engages on relevant developments globally through its Government Affairs function. The Company has established internal governance and reporting frameworks to identify, analyze, elevate, and engage on public policy risks and opportunities, including those associated with climate and environmental policy, sustainable finance, and related legislative initiatives.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The Bank will also use the scenarios and results from the 2021 BES to assess any vulnerabilities it may face on its own balance sheet. This will build on the work done to analyse the exposure of the Bank's investment portfolios to the risks from climate change, which are set out in Chapter 4.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The Audit Committee Charter states that the committee will 'discuss policies and procedures with respect to risk assessment and risk management, the company's major risk exposures, and the steps management has taken to monitor and mitigate such exposures.' The Vice President and General Auditor, Corporate Auditing, whose appointment and performance is reviewed and evaluated by the Audit Committee, is responsible for leading the formal risk assessment and management process within the company.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The EBRD committed US$ 68.5 million (€60 million equivalent) to Amundi Planet – Emerging Green One, a green bond fund dedicated to emerging markets. The International Finance Corporation and the European Investment Bank also participated in the fund, which will invest in bonds issued by financial institutions and support climate and environmental projects.
Symbol:
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Input: The initiative has four working groups; government bonds, listed equities and corpo- rate bonds real estate and strategic asset alloca- tion. Representatives from AP2 participate in the steering group and in the working groups for government bonds and real estate.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The Audit Committee Charter states that the committee will 'discuss policies and procedures with respect to risk assessment and risk management, the company's major risk exposures, and the steps management has taken to monitor and mitigate such exposures.' The Vice President and General Auditor, Corporate Auditing, whose appointment and performance is reviewed and evaluated by the Audit Committee, is responsible for leading the formal risk assessment and management process within the company.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Project using non-mechanized mining technology More than 2 new coal mine projects with underground mining face Project using backward production process equipment for coal mining While restricting the underwriting and investment in the coal industry, Ping An continuously optimizes financial resources to support the development of renewable energy.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Through these initiatives, Konica Minolta is aiming to achieve the business targets of more than ¥75 billion in operating profit, ¥50 billion in profit attributable to owners of the company, and ROE of 9.5% by fiscal 2019, the final year of the Medium Term Business Plan. Beyond this, we are looking to achieve a medium-term target of more than ¥100 billion in operating profit and more than ¥70 billion in profit attributable to owners of the company by fiscal 2021.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: (€165 million equivalent) loan to finance the construction of a high-efficiency combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant near the city of Kirikkale in Turkey. The loan is part of a US$ 1 billion (€823 million equivalent) package arranged by the EBRD that brings together international financial institutions and commercial banks.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Agreement while supporting security of energy supply in Australia and New Zealand and working with customers, related suppliers and their employees in which they operate. This includes increasing our environmental finance commitment from $55 billion to $70 billion by 2025. In 2019, we reached a total $33.6 billion towards this goal.1 We also increased our Australian renewable energy objective from 50% to 100% by 2025. • Worked with the Energy Transitions Hub at the University of Melbourne to develop a process to geocode lending portfolio data to overlay it with transition and physical climate risk information for scenario analysis. We used this to examine the potential impact of climate scenarios related to cyclones on our Australian retail mortgage portfolio. • Performed further transition risk scenario analysis on the coal sector. • Increased disclosure of climate-related credit risk policy settings – refer to page 44 of our 2019 Sustainability Report for further detail. Our climate change disclosures align with the TCFD’s recommendations and are provided throughout our annual reporting suite. Refer to our 2019 Annual Financial Report pages 35-39 and our 2019 Sustainability Report pages 21-29.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The sensitivity analysis does not show a comprehensive picture of all potential scenarios. Further, variables do not tend to move in isolation, nor in a uniform or consistent manner, and the analysis does not show the potentially infinite number of permutations, and resultant impacts, that might arise in reality as a consequence.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Physical risk Physical risks can be acute or chronic. Acute physical risk is caused by extreme weather events such as cyclones and wildfires. Chronic physical risk arises from longer-term shifts in climate patterns such as rising sea levels with time horizon typically spanning decades. Physical risk can result in financial losses due to direct damage to assets and indirect impact from supply chain disruption.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The international community pledged €17 million in additional funds to help finance work aimed at reducing the risk of radiation from disused uranium-mining sites in the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The funding was pledged at an event hosted by the EBRD, which manages the Environmental Remediation Account for Central Asia. Work at four sites will start in 2019.
Symbol:
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Input: Investors are seeking a better understanding of how climate change may impact the company’s business over the short, medium and long term. They also want to know about the company’s planned response, including how it may need to change its strategy. However, according to EY’s July 2020 report ‘How will ESG performance shape your future?’, based on a global institutional investor survey, companies are failing to meet investors’ expectations on environmental, social and governance factors when compared with 2018.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Environmental, Social, and Governance Evaluation In April 2019, Ratings launched a comprehensive Environmental, Social, and Governance Evaluation that enables companies to measure their long term preparedness to manage Environmental, Social, and Governance exposure and opportunities. The Environmental, Social, and Governance Evaluation combines quantitative and qualitative analysis and considers both near-term and longer-term Environmental, Social, and Governance risks and risk mitigants for the subject company/entity. Our criteria for evaluating Environmental, Social, and Governance risks will vary by issuer type depending on the issuer's sensitivities; corporate analysis considers risks in the context of the company's business risk profile, financial risk profile, and management and governance assessment; sovereign analysis considers an assessment of institutional quality and governance effectiveness, while U.S. public finance analysis will typically consider Environmental, Social, and Governance factors in the context of management effectiveness and planning. In addition, Ratings has also added Environmental, Social, and Governance sections to its credit ratings reports on corporate entities, increasing transparency into how it incorporates Environmental, Social, and Governance factors.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: At this stage the assessment is still considered qualitative, as further studies and research are yet to be completed, however it does indicate which risks may potentially have a material impact on Transurban's business. Each of these risks will be assessed further to confirm the scope and relative impact of the different consequences to better inform the management approach and reporting for future years.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: For investment real estate in Switzerland, we apply the following sustainability criteria: analysis of energy sources as a percentage of market value and MINERGIE certifications. MINERGIE is a Swiss sustainability label for new and refurbished buildings. By the end of 2019, the combined value of our MINERGIE-certified buildings reached USD 0.4 billion, or 23% of our Swiss portfolio of direct real estate
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: 1.4.2 Health, safety and security of employees and subcontractors Health and safety Employees of VINCI companies and subcontracting companies are required to work on the increasingly complex projects and operations that the Group carries out. This can threaten their health, safety, hygiene and the quality of their life at work. The health and safety coordinators of the Group’s business lines have identified several types of risk considered as major (see the column “Identifying risks” in the table below).
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: We have a climate change policy and implemented strategies aligned with the TCFD recommendations which describe our commitment with doing our part to limit global temperatures below two degrees, among these strategies are the following: • Financial products within our sustainable business strategy, where we offer products that seek to avoid GHG emissions with projects implemented by our clients. (Energy Efficiency, Cleaner Production, Sustainable Building and Electric Mobility) • Reducing our GHG emissions, where we have established a 2030 target in line with the Science Based Targets iniciative. Said target is aligned with all of our Eco-Efficiency reduction targets associated with energy, water, paper and business travel. • Issue of Green Bonds (Focused on sustainable building, and renewable energy projects for 350.000 million Colombian pesos) where we seek to engage with investors to incorporate climate change in their strategies.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The Audit Committee Charter states that the committee will 'discuss policies and procedures with respect to risk assessment and risk management, the company's major risk exposures, and the steps management has taken to monitor and mitigate such exposures.' The Vice President and General Auditor, Corporate Auditing, whose appointment and performance is reviewed and evaluated by the Audit Committee, is responsible for leading the formal risk assessment and management process within the company.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In Europe, as new legislative initiatives have been brought in, we have sought to maximize the opportunities for digital dissemination. BlackRock produces approximately 50,000 Undertakings for the Collective Investment in Transferable Securities ('UCITS') Key Investor Information Documents a year in multiple languages and we use our website as our primary delivery mechanism. We have also consistently advocated for key information disclosure documents, including UCITS, packaged retail investment, and insurance-based investment products and pan European personal pension products to be designed on a digitally friendly basis rather than on a paper basis.65
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: At Karnataka, we produced and sold 2.2 million tonnes during FY2018, in line with the allocated environmental clearance (EC) limits. The Honourable Supreme Court has increased the cap on production of iron ore for the state from 30 to 35 million tonnes, and accordingly increase in our allocation for Karnataka from 2.3 to 4.5 million tonnes in May 2018.
Symbol:
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Input: As our activities advance, the metrics and targets we use to monitor our success will likely evolve as well. Through our participation in industry groups, we intend to continue developing appropriate metrics that can be adopted consistently by financial institutions to provide comparable, decision-useful information to investors.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: To help increase access to affordable and sustainable homeownership, in April 2019, we announced the $5 billion Bank of America Community Homeownership Commitment™ to benefit LMI homebuyers over the next five years. The initiative will help more than 20,000 individuals and families achieve homeownership through grants that directly assist homebuyers with their down payments and closing costs. At the end of 2019, the program helped over 9,000 new homeowners with $2.3 billion in mortgage lending.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Prior to submission to the Board of Directors for final approval, investment decisions are reviewed by the EBRD Investment Committee (OpsCom). OpsCom is chaired by the First Vice President and Head of Client Services Group and includes representatives of all relevant functions involved in the business activity, including Banking, Legal, Risk Management, and the Economics, Policy and Governance team looking after the mandated objectives of the EBRD.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Suzano also is involved and spearheads external activities - such as working groups and research partnerships - working with industry associations (e.g., Iba, CEBDS, Brazilian Coalition on Climate, Forests and Agriculture, etc.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: (€165 million equivalent) loan to finance the construction of a high-efficiency combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant near the city of Kirikkale in Turkey. The loan is part of a US$ 1 billion (€823 million equivalent) package arranged by the EBRD that brings together international financial institutions and commercial banks.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Our new policy measures outlined on page 1 will play a key role in shaping our portfolio over the coming years and help ensure we stay on track to meet our longer term goal.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The European Investment Bank, the EU climate bank, signed a loan of up to €57.5 million to the Greek state in July 2020 to finance the construction and equipment of the Geophysical Observatory in Antikythera and the new oceanographic vessel. These projects have an implementation horizon of five to six years.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Climate action lines: In 2018, CaixaBank signed an agreement with the European Investment Bank (EIB) consisting of a line of credit amounting to EUR 30 million to fund investments in SMEs, individuals, and the public sector to combat climate change (e.g., electric cars, modifications to facilities, and home improvements). In addition, CaixaBank acts as a broker for EIB funds related to renewable energy projects. Specifically, in 2018, EUR 35 million have been allocated to finance a wind farm project.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: � We have committed to have an additional 3,000 megawatts of new solar and wind — enough to power 750,000 homes — under development or in operation by the beginning of 2022. This is incremental to the nearly 1,800 megawatts of company-owned or -partnered solar generating capacity that had entered service by the end of 2018.
Symbol:
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Input: AGL's Risk Management Policy, which has been approved by AGL's Board, mandates that management utilise risk management principles in decision-making, and requires all AGL people to consider their functions and roles and how to manage risks arising from their business decisions and activities. AGL's Statement of Risk Appetite, reviewed annually by the ARMC, sets out AGL's risk appetite in relation to strategic, financial, market and operational risks, as well as AGL's risk tolerance (which in turn identifies activities for which AGL has no appetite).
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Any misalignments will be represented at sector, technologies and counterpart level and road-testing banks will be able to leverage the methodology for reporting and steering potential capital misallocation, in order to be aligned with the 2 C goal of the Paris Agreement. The underlying matching software and calibration for matching instruments will be made publicly available at the end of the project.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: We meet the financing needs of our customers with a broad and modern product range. The focus of the portfolio is on traditional owner-occupied home financing and the financing of real estate capital investments (residential mortgage loans and investment properties with a total EaD of €61bn). We provide our business customers with credit in the form of individual loans with a volume of €14bn. In addition, we meet our customers’ day-to-day demand for credit with consumer loans (consumer and instalment loans, credit cards to a total of €10bn).
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Examples of parameters that could impact Equinor’s operations include increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events, rising sea level, changes in sea currents and restrained water availability. There is also uncertainty regarding the magnitude and time horizon for the occurrence of physical impacts of climate change, which increases uncertainty regarding their potential impact on Equinor.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The Group considers risk management to be the key point in the financing business. We are therefore establishing a specialized risk management system that includes risk assessment standards specific to asset types, portfolio management, and monitoring methods. Under this management system, we will prioritize increasing transaction diversification as a concrete method of increasing operating assets exceeding ¥100 billion over the coming three years.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The Group is a major provider of non-retail loans. A key step in credit risk due diligence for non-retail lending is the assessment of potential transactions for environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks, including climate risk, through our ESG Risk Assessment Tool. All Institutional Bank loans, as well as large loans in other business units, are evaluated through the Group’s compulsory ESG risk assessment process. The risk of climate change is assessed at origination and during the annual review process for Institutional Bank loans. Exposures with medium or high risk profile are subject to additional due diligence and heightened consideration and assessment in the credit process. During the year ended 30 June 2020, the Group recognised provisions for impairment of $90 million reflecting the impact of extreme weather events on the credit quality of the Group’s loan portfolio.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: It is essential that risk assessment and risk-informed decision-making is integrated across all levels of our organization - from the board of directors through oversight of the risk management policy and program to executive leadership through the Risk Management Committee and to business operations.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Our Integris Global Equity portfolios exclude companies that have material connections to certain controversial industries, e.g. fossil fuels, tobacco and weapons. We also exclude companies that score the worst overall ESG score (‘CCC’) as calculated by an independent external ESG research company, MSCI ESG Research, and at the end of December 2018, there were 174 companies excluded from the portfolios as a result of this ESG screen.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: We plan on aiding economic development efforts in the Carolinas by keeping electric and gas bills affordable and by working with current and prospective employers to show them how we can provide them with on-demand energy. And through philanthropic giving, which will increase SCANA’s community giving by $1 million per year over the next five years, we expect to focus on education, environmental stewardship and community needs.
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Input: Creating value Measuring our reputation KPI FY19 FY18 FY17 FY16 FY15 AGL‘s Reptrak score declined since FY18. The drop in AGL‘s reputation over the past year has been driven by declining scores on three important dimensions of reputation – leadership, workplace and citizenship. This decline in reputation was consistent with scores across the energy industry as a whole.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In anticipation of regulatory policies we are seeking to take advantage of the opportunity to deliver sustainable solutions for our clients. One example is our Mission 2030 statement, in which we state that we want to raise the average energy performance of all buildings financed by ABN AMRO to energy label 'A' by 2030. By starting this process, we mitigate the transition risk of these upcoming regulatory policies that may materialise soon. Our progress on this target is shown in the 2019 Non-Financial Data & Engagement report.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: We ensure that all airport operations, flight, and inflight crewmembers are equipped with the knowledge to identify and respond to potential cases of human trafficking through their initial training and subsequent annual recurrent training. In addition, all crewmembers can take an online human trafficking course. Crewmembers are taught what human trafficking is, who the victims typically are, what signs to look for, and how to report information of suspected human trafficking.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Physical risk Physical risks can be acute or chronic. Acute physical risk is caused by extreme weather events such as cyclones and wildfires. Chronic physical risk arises from longer-term shifts in climate patterns such as rising sea levels with time horizon typically spanning decades. Physical risk can result in financial losses due to direct damage to assets and indirect impact from supply chain disruption.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: As a leader in the index investing and asset management industry, BlackRock has been the subject of commentary citing concerns about the growth of index investing, as well as perceived competition issues associated with asset managers managing stakes in multiple companies within certain industries, known as “common ownership”. The commentators argue that index funds have the potential to distort investment flows, create stock price bubbles, or conversely, exacerbate a decline in market prices.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The future is not a faraway place. It’s as near as tomorrow and it will affect us all. As energy consumption soars, how will we meet the demand? Fossil fuels are a finite resource that will gradually disappear. The natural replacement is sweeping freely around the earth – the wind.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Four years ago, we began to significantly increase our exposure to the credit asset class which now stands at $18.3 billion at the end of 2019. We believe that rotating capital away from low-yielding, long-dated government bonds into higher-yielding credit investments provides for a better return on risk in the current low interest rate environment.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: A reduction in GHG emissions relies on the commercial viability and scalability of emission reduction strategies and related technology and products. In the event that we are unable to implement these strategies and technologies as planned without negatively impacting our expected operations or cost structure, or such strategies or technologies do not perform as expected, we may be unable to meet our GHG 2030 targets or 2050 ambition on the current timelines, or at all.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: $200 billion in financing to sustainable businesses and projects by 2030, with more than 50 percent focused on clean technology and renewable energy transactions to help accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy. This commitment demonstrates how our products and services, operations and culture, and philanthropy can be harnessed toward a single goal. As an example,
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Input: The Advisory Scientific Committee (ASC) of the ESRB carried out an analysis of systemic risks that can arise from the transition to a low-carbon economy. Three channels that could affect the financial sector were identified: • sudden changes in energy use, characterized by price shocks that could have a significant macroeconomic impact; • the revaluation of carbon-intensive assets: companies in the oil and gas sectors, which are financed in large part by debt, could sustain considerable decreases in value; • an increase in the physical risks associated with climate change: a rise in the incidence of natural disasters could have a significant impact on the insurance sector.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In addi- tion, analyses of various trends will be performed periodi- cally in the future in order to revise assessments and disclose information on risks and opportunities related to other areas.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: We are Australia's largest corporate purchaser of electricity from renewable projects connected to the grid under project specific agreements. While the output from these projects goes into the total grid pool, rather than directly into our facilities, these agreements play a role in providing the investment certainty to enable these projects to proceed. As the grid itself increases its proportion of renewable energy due to agreements with us and others, the power that flows into our facilities from the grid also becomes greener. The projects we have agreements with, including the Murra Warra Wind Farm and the Emerald Solar Park, generate renewable energy equivalent to the energy consumption of 255,000 households. We will continue to build on this work and invest in renewable energy generation.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Our ESO RIIO-2 plan proposes new activities that will generate net benefits of around £2 billion for consumers over the five-year RIIO-2 period and spend over its two-year price control (2021–2023) of £514 million. The ambitious ESO plan focuses on how the ESO must evolve to meet the challenges of the changing energy landscape. Supported by a new, bespoke regulatory model designed to drive the right behaviours and outcomes, the ESO will facilitate the transition to a zero-carbon power system. Under RIIO-2, the ESO will lower average annual consumer bills by around £3.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Risks to the Group’s reputation Risks include acts or omissions by the Group or any of its employees that could damage the Group’s reputation or lead to a loss of trust among its stakeholders. Every risk type has potential consequences for Zurich’s reputation. Effectively managing each type of risk helps reduce such threats.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: We may be subject to unionization, work stoppages, slowdowns or increased labor costs and the unionization of the Company’s pilots and inflight crewmembers could result in increased labor costs. Our business is labor intensive and the unionization of any of our crewmembers could result in demands that may increase our operating expenses and adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations. Any of the different crafts or classes of our crewmembers could unionize at any time, which would require us to negotiate in good faith with the crewmember group’s certified representative concerning a collective bargaining agreement. In addition, we may be subject to disruptions by unions protesting the non-union status of our other crewmembers. Any of these events would be disruptive to our operations and could harm our business.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The physical risks of climate change are divided into acute and chronic risks. Acute risks include risks related to extreme weather events, such as floods and hurricanes. Chronic risks include, for example, permanently higher temperatures and the ensuing sea level rise. Sectors particularly exposed to physical risks include the forest sector, agriculture and real estate, to name a few.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In 2018, CN spent approximately $3.5 billion in its capital program, with $1.6 billion invested to maintain the safety and integrity of the network, particularly track infrastructure. CN's capital spending also included $1.0 billion on strategic initiatives to increase capacity, enable growth and improve network resiliency, including line capacity upgrades and information technology initiatives, $0.5 billion on equipment capital expenditures, including the acquisition of 500 new centerbeam cars and 65 new high-horsepower locomotives, and $0.4 billion on implementation of Positive Train Control (PTC), the safety technology mandated by the U.S. Congress.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: To speed up implementation of these solutions, even ahead of calls for tenders, we have established special financing mechanisms. Every year we allocate €2 million to E-Face, a fund that covers the cost differential between conventional solutions and more environmentally friendly alternatives. Similarly, the Seed’Innov fund aims to support all the Group’s low-carbon innovations, from the initial R&D stage and trials through to their introduction on the market.
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Input: Metrics and Targets Scotiabank sets, monitors and reports on climate change related performance and targets annually in Scotiabank's Sustainable Business Report. The Bank also reports to Carbon Disclosure Project (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project). As part of Scotiabank's Climate Commitments, the Bank is tracking the initiatives that underlie its commitment as part of the metrics and targets it has adopted pursuant to these Commitments.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Additional Details on Electric Vehicles In addition to being preferred by crewmembers, eGSE also: - Reduces energy costs - Reduces emissions and noise - Increases safety due to less aircraft damage and reduces fire risk from fuel Going forward, our strategy is to expedite conversion to electric vehicle alternatives in locations where governmental funding is available and where we expect regulation.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Laws, regulations, policies, obligations, social attitudes and customer preferences relating to climate change and the transition to a lower carbon economy could have an adverse impact on our business (including increased costs from compliance, litigation, and regulatory or litigation outcomes), and could lead to constraints on production and supply and access to new reserves and a decline in demand for certain products.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Impacts of Risks are consequences of risks, both quantitative and qualitative. There may be many consequences of risks manifesting, such as a reduction in earnings and capital, liquidity outflows, and fines or penalties, or qualitative impacts such as reputation damage, loss of clients and customers, and regulatory and enforcement actions.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Risk committees Effective risk management requires company-wide risk governance. ING's risk and control structure is based on the 'three lines of defence' governance model, whereby each line has a specific role and defined responsibilities and the execution and control of tasks are separated. At the same time, the three lines have to work closely together to identify, assess and mitigate risks. This governance framework is designed to manage risk in line with ING's overall risk appetite as approved by the Management Board Banking, Executive Board and Supervisory Board.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: IFC partners with more than 30 governments, 20 foundations and corporations, and a variety of multilateral and institutional entities. In FY20, our development partners committed $288 million for IFC’s Upstream and advisory services and $22 million for blended finance initiatives to support private sector investments in countries most affected by fragility and conflict, as well as projects related to gender, climate, financial inclusion, sustainable infrastructure, agribusiness, and manufacturing.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Validation We established a common understanding between Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and all regions at the global meetings also based on the analyses conducted by overseas affiliates. We also engaged in dialogue with international organizations to validate the issues identified from perspectives outside of the company. The matrix was confirmed by relevant executives.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Reputation Risk: This is the risk of loss of credibility due to internal or external factors and is often related to, or results from, other categories of risk. This risk can arise from our internal business practices or those of our business partners or the companies in which we invest. Business partners include third parties hired to perform some of our administrative functions as well as investment organizations with which we have a contractual arrangement. A loss of reputation could impact our position as a partner, investor and employer of choice and impede our ability to execute our strategy.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: This new focus is laid out in Eiffage’s 2020 business plan, with the decision to entrust the coordination of transversal innovation to the Sustainable Development department and make internal financial resources available to support the roll-out of the Group’s low-carbon offering. Created in 2016 and allocated an annual budget of €2 million, the E-Face fund supports the operational development of low-carbon offerings by funding the cost differential between a traditional solution and an alternative, low-emission solution for all eligible commercial projects undertaken by the Group. Apart from providing important leverage by co-financing the reduced carbon footprint of a project, the fund also helps identify low-carbon materials, products and processes that can easily be substituted for their high-carbon equivalents while introducing traceability of the carbon content of purchases for accounting purposes.
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Input: The potential impact of climate change as an environmental, social and governance challenge for the region is significant. The SADC region is particularly vulnerable to increased frequency of floods, cyclones and droughts which may damage infrastructure, destroy agricultural crops, disrupt livelihoods and cause loss of life. These impacts will increasingly influence investment and insurance decisions.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Given how essential bonds are to the global economy — as a source of risk management and returns for investors, as a source of capital for companies and governments — the lack of structural innovations to the bond market for many years was surprising. For decades, bond markets largely stayed the same. And in fact, investing in bonds became more difficult following the global financial crisis, as greater regulatory oversight and capital restrictions significantly reduced banks’ balance sheets and as a result, bond inventories.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The Group is exposed to multiple risks relating to the conduct of its general insurance business. The following risks noted below are not meant to represent an exhaustive list, but the risks faced by the Group that have been identified by the RMS process: strategic risk: the risk of not achieving corporate or strategic goals;
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: This includes storms, flooding, wildfires and water and heat stress which can damage our buildings, jeopardise the safety of our people and significantly disrupt our operations. At present 9% of our headcount are located in countries at “extreme” risk from the physical impacts of climate change in the next 30 years.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: A top risk is defined as having: (i) the potential to have a material impact, across a business area or geographical area, on the financial results, reputation or sustainability of the Group; (ii) the potential of occurring in the near future.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: From a business continuity standpoint, MGC has identified production downtime due to drought or flooding of production facilities as a water-related risk, formulated the business continuity plan (BCP) that addresses this risk and implemented measures to mitigate it. None of the areas in which MGC’s plants are located has experienced either adverse impacts on production activities due to water stress or conflicts with stakeholders regarding use of water resources.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: IFC expands the availability of such technologies by channeling investments toward private companies that build modern communications infrastructure and information-technology businesses. In FY18, we invested $376 million in initiatives related to technology, including funds mobilized from other investors — expanding our portfolio in this sector to more than $2.4 billion.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In technology development, we focus on increasing resource efficiency - aiming to reduce energy and water consumption, emissions, effluents and waste. In 2019, 81% of our R&D projects were related to initiatives targeting sustainability improvements. Our efforts to mitigate the environmental impacts of our products and services are presented in Sustainable technologies and innovations.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The two companies and the relevant local authorities had already created 1,088 car-pooling spaces between 2014 and 2018. They will step up their efforts in this area with a motorway investment plan that was approved by the French government in early November 2018. APRR has undertaken to create 1,700 car-pooling spaces at 27 sites by 2021, investing a total of €10.6 million, while AREA will invest €1.7 million to create 250 spaces at five sites in the same timeframe.
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Input: An inability to successfully manage and leverage our strategic third-party relationships, or a critical failure of a key supplier or service provider, may expose Coles to risks related to compromised safety and quality, misalignment with ethical and sustainability objectives, disruptions to supply or operations, unrealised benefits, and legal and regulatory exposure.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The Group is also committed to promoting research and education to better understand and protect against climate risk: the AXA Research Fund will dedicate €35 million to climate risk research by 2018. In addition, AXA works on climate issues through its partnership with the humanitarian organization CARE; this partnership is focused in part on disaster risk reduction efforts among vulnerable populations in both Africa and Asia.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In developing our scenario analysis, we used internal data sets and assumptions made in our existing business models. We considered the views of departments across the business to better understand risks and time horizons. We also took the time to consider impacts and dependencies. This helped us to report on the risks and opportunities that are most material to our organization.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Application - Projects with high and irreversible risks and po - tential impact, where it is not deemed possible to establish a viable action plan, or projects that con - travene the Bank's corporate values, are rejected.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Our risk assessment Rising average annual temperatures could lead to higher cooling costs for our business and our customers. More erratic temperature changes could lead to strain or failure of our mechanical heating and cooling systems. Storms could lead to higher maintenance costs. And flooding, both inland and coastal, could lead to direct damage to our properties. All of these hazards can affect our customers’ business continuity.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: R I S K - I N F O R M E D D E C I S I O N M A K I N G To achieve our business objectives and performance goals, we must ensure that our business strategies are aligned with the risks we face.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: As part of this strategy, over the past few years Bankinter has taken part in pilot projects to develop guidelines and methodologies to analyse the indirect impacts of the financial sector.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: IFC Catalyst Fund: The $418 million IFC Catalyst Fund was launched in 2012 and invests in funds that provide growth capital to companies developing innovative ways to address climate change in emerging markets. It also may invest directly in those companies. As of June 30, 2019, the fund had made 22 commitments totaling $365 million.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: IFC expands the availability of such technologies by channeling investments toward private companies that build modern communications infrastructure and information-technology businesses. In FY18, we invested $376 million in initiatives related to technology, including funds mobilized from other investors — expanding our portfolio in this sector to more than $2.4 billion.
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Input: Finally, prolonged and multiple periods of heatwaves or other consequences of rising temperatures may result in increased mortality and morbidity, thereby impacting our life and income insurance liabilities. Long-term threats are difficult to predict, but at this time, we expect this to have less impact on our life and income insurance liabilities than other risks, such as changes in demographics or pandemics. It should be noted though that whilst pandemic outbreaks can be attributed to a number of interrelated factors, climate change is likely to increase the risks by spreading of disease vectors into areas that formerly did not experience these.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The Group faces many other risks which, although important and subject to regular review, have been assessed as less significant and are not listed here. These include, for example, natural catastrophe and business interruption risks and certain financial risks. A summary of financial risks and their management is provided on page 25.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: 42_ Scope 1 concerns direct emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels, such as gas, oil, coal, etc. Scope 2 covers indirect emissions related to the consumption of electricity, heat or steam required to manufacture a product. Scope 3 concerns other indirect emissions, such as the extraction of materials purchased by the company to manufacture a product or the transport-related emissions of employees and of customers who buy the product. This is the largest share of a company’s emissions.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Indirect emissions, known as scope 2 and 3 emissions, result from operational activities we do not own or control. These include emissions produced as a consequence of electricity we purchase to power our treatment plants (scope 2) and other indirect emissions such as travel on company business (scope 3). Emissions from electricity we use are calculated by converting each kilowatt hour purchased into its carbon dioxide equivalent.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: We also assess risks on the basis of their potential impact on the value of our franchise, which is supported by our reputation, brand and good customer relationships. Conduct and operational risks, such as cyber security breaches, data loss and IT systems failure, in particular have the potential to significantly impact our franchise value.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: International political, social and economic risks Equinor has international interests located in regions where political, social and economic instability could adversely affect Equinor’s business. Equinor has assets and operations located in diverse regions globally where potentially negative economic, social, and political developments could occur. These political risks and security threats require continuous monitoring. Uncertainty exists around the UK`s exit from the EU and the potential market impact.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: For asset management companies belonging to a Group (most of the tested sample), inadequate internal supervision of the services (relating to IT, cybersecurity and business continuity) performed by the parent company was identified. But the technical execution of these services by the Group cannot exempt asset management companies from their responsibilities regarding the definition (in priority) of the main risk areas and management of the relevant controls.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: - CaixaBank voluntarily applies this procedure to sy - ndicated operations with a term of 3 years or more and when CaixaBank's individual commitment is between $7 million and $35 million.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: IFC is helping reverse that decline. In 2018, we launched a Maximizing Finance for Development initiative — working with other members of the World Bank Group — to finance a $12 million solar project in Gaza to ease the energy shortage. The 7-megawatt rooftop solar-power plant will provide critical energy to 32 factories in the Gaza Industrial Estate — much more cheaply than before. The project will create around 800 jobs.
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Input: New Chittoor facility During FY20, our eighth manufacturing facility in Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh was commissioned with Phase I installed capacity of 0.4 million units. The total Phase I investment for setting up the manufacturing facility is around ` 622 crore for a projected 1.8 million units annual capacity.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Cities account for 75 per cent of worldwide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. EBRD Green Cities, a programme that supports sustainable urban planning and investment, is central to Bank efforts to curb climate change. Under the initiative in 2018, the EBRD invested €265 million in 10 projects which together are expected to reduce GHG emissions by 319,000 tonnes annually. Donors help to fund the action plans that are the centrepiece of EBRD Green Cities and other aspects of the programme.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The types of events that give rise to reputation risk are broad and could be introduced in various ways, including by the Firm’s employees and the clients, customers and counterparties with which the Firm does business. These events could result in financial losses, litigation and regulatory fines, as well as other damages to the Firm. As reputation risk is inherently difficult to identify, manage, and quantify, an independent reputation risk management governance function is critical.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Business interruption An external hazardous event (floods, riots, fires etc.) or internal disruption (e.g. availability of critical spare parts, global supply chain complexity etc.) may result in a significant period of plant shutdown or disruption and hence in delayed/non-delivery of our products to internal and/or external customers, ultimately leading to adverse financial and reputational consequences.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: It is also used to identify what are known as emerging risks, in other words risks which could potentially have an adverse impact on the Group’s future performance, although their result and horizontal time frame are uncertain and difficult to predict (for further details see section ‘Emerging risks’ from chapter C. Background and upcoming challenges).
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The COVID-19 pandemic rapidly introduced an array of new and elevated risks to the safety of our people, the resilience of our operations, the strength of our balance sheet and the financial security of our customers and the community. Action has been required to address these risks, particularly in the following areas:
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The new index was built in three stages: - Firstly, Controversial Weapons Manufacturers were excluded from the universe of stocks that make up the FTSE All World Index universe, as the Trustee has a financial preference for avoiding such stocks where possible. - Secondly, a four factor index was created (Value, Quality, Low Volatility and Low Size) that rebalances regularly through time to create a 'Balanced Factor' index with more attractive risk-return characteristics than the standard market capitalisation index. - Finally, three climate-related tilts were applied to the 'Balanced Factor' index to create a 'Climate Balanced Factor' index. The FTSE All World (ex controversial weapons) Climate Balanced Factor Index tilts away from Carbon Reserves and Carbon Emissions, whilst positively tilting towards Green Revenues. The tilts are set such that the inclusion of the climate-related tilts, introduces a relatively modest tracking error compared to the Balanced Factor index without climate tilts. This allowed the Trustee to conclude that the new index was consistent with its fiduciary duty and provided an element of climate change protection.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: That’s why making these assets as strong as they can be will always be the bedrock of growth – as reflected in the investment we have committed to upgrading the Bayswater and Loy Yang A power stations (without increasing carbon emissions) and the $420 million we have invested in the past three years in customer experience and other digital transformation programs.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Our offerings are designed to meet the specific needs of IFC clients in different industries — with a special focus on infrastructure, manufacturing, agribusiness, services, and financial markets. In FY18, we made $11.6 billion in long-term investments in 366 projects. In addition, we mobilized nearly $11.7 billion to support the private sector in developing countries.
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Input: - CaixaBank voluntarily applies this procedure to sy - ndicated operations with a term of 3 years or more and when CaixaBank's individual commitment is between $7 million and $35 million.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The foregoing list of risk factors is not exhaustive. Additional information about these factors can be found in the Risk Management section of the Bank's 2019 Annual Report. This information may be updated in our quarterly Shareholder Reports. Investors and others who rely on the Bank's forward-looking statements should carefully consider the above factors as well as the uncertainties they represent and the risk they entail.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Ultimately, sustainable growth is also about culture and tone from the top. Leaders across the bank promote our efforts, articulate its importance and champion the work needed to deliver sustainable growth well into the future.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of 13.A developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Advisory Services continue to be an important part of our business. We anticipate 528 new assignments in 2019, about the same level as 2018, to support €45 billion in investments. We are committed to dedicating at least 25% of own-lending capacity to climate projects annually, and to increasing from 25% to 35% the share of financing for developing countries dedicated to climate action. We have committed to financing a total of $100 billion in climate action investments globally from 2016 to 2020. The Bank will also continue to focus on infrastructure projects, particularly those that reduce waste and preserve resources.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Supporting the Low-Carbon Transition Our business units are on pace to meet our commitment to mobilize $250 billion to support low-carbon solutions by 2030. They are building expertise, supported by GSF and the Institute for Sustainable Investing, to serve our clients' growing interest in Environmental, Social, and Governance issues and in climate change specifically. Survey data from the Institute suggests rapidly accelerating interest in climate-focused solutions among asset managers, asset owners and individual investors. In response, we are developing accessible new products, such as Morgan Stanley Impact Quotient (see page 15). Our early work in 2013 in scaling green- bond financing has catalyzed new opportunities and continues to drive sector innovation in green and sustainable bonds.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Since the Industrial Revolution, an increase in energy consumption has heightened the concentrations of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), in the atmosphere, and global warming is progressing. If warming continues without taking any effective countermeasures, there will be major changes in the earth's climate. This will cause phenomena such as rising sea levels and abnormal weather patterns, and have a great impact on the living environments of people and other organisms. Abnormal weather patterns will also increase the risk of damage to the business activities of the Mitsui Fudosan Group.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: It is essential that risk assessment and risk-informed decision-making is integrated across all levels of our organization - from the board of directors through oversight of the risk management policy and program to executive leadership through the Risk Management Committee and to business operations.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Deployed our investment strategy to address climate change through concrete actions with conclusive results • A $10-billion increase in low-carbon assets, exceeding the initial target of $8 billion, with a new target set at $32 billion by 2020. • A 10% reduction in our portfolio’s carbon intensity, with a target of a 25% reduction by 2025. • High-quality transactions in renewable electricity in the United States, Europe, India and Latin America. • Consolidating expertise within a team dedicated to stewardship investing and initiatives.
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Input: Of this, ¥8 trillion will be used for environmental finance aimed at helping counter climate change and otherwise addressing environmental concerns. Specifically, we will help popularize renewable energy via project finance while issuing Green Bonds whose net proceeds are allocated to Eligible Green Projects. We will also deliver other products and services designed to help reduce the environmental burden, with the aim of supporting the transition to a decarbonized society. (Please also refer to page 58 for details.)
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The main credit risk the group faces is in relation to its Energy Efficiency Loan Scheme. This risk is actively managed with formal credit checking procedures at customer acquisition, and allowances for impairment are made where appropriate. Our bad debt provisioning policy is restricted to provide for loans in administration and where, in the opinion of management, recovery is not possible.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: At the beginning of 2019, VINCI Airports signed a memorandum of understanding with the Portuguese government to extend Lisbon’s airport capacity. It provides for upgrading the existing Humberto Delgado Airport and building a new civil airport on the Montijo Air base opposite the city at the eastern end of the Tagus estuary. VINCI Airports will invest €1.15 billion over the next 10 years in this two-pronged project.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: S&P Global has developed a suite of products across its underlying business units that help clients in this transition and will continue to invest in innovative solutions that power sustainable markets of the future.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In our outlook for impacts on our clients' business, we employed two scenarios: a static scenario which assumes that no attempt is made to transform the present business structure, and a dynamic scenario under which the business structure is transformed.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Business travel accounted for 88% of the operations’ total carbon emissions, with air travel accounting for 63% of this figure. One of the reasons for the increase in carbon emissions from travel was the outsourcing of IT services to companies abroad, compared with former Swedish companies, resulting in longer travel required in the business operations.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In 2020, the EBRD signed a US$ 100 million project to finance Louis Dreyfus Company's (LDC) subsidiaries operating in Bulgaria, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Poland, Romania, Tajikistan, Turkey and Ukraine. The transaction will finance working capital needs for the trading activities of LDC's subsidiaries in these countries.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Until the end of March 2021, a total of 29 institutions, including domestic and foreign automobile manufacturers, automotive component manufacturers, and universities, will participate in these field operation tests to acquire test data, conduct analysis, and report test results. In addition, they are planning to carry out activities such as holding test drives and demonstration events and disseminating information to develop public acceptance of automated driving.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: BlackRock’s Sustainable Investing platform consists of more than $50 billion in dedicated ESG strategies. We also manage more than $440 billion in solutions that eliminate exposure to certain sectors or activities. And we offer our strategies in index and alpha-seeking, with varying levels of customization, from iShares Sustainable Core ETFs to bespoke, institutional client solutions.
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Input: Except as required by law, the Bank does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements, whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time, by it or on its behalf.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The Audit Committee Charter states that the committee will 'discuss policies and procedures with respect to risk assessment and risk management, the company's major risk exposures, and the steps management has taken to monitor and mitigate such exposures.' The Vice President and General Auditor, Corporate Auditing, whose appointment and performance is reviewed and evaluated by the Audit Committee, is responsible for leading the formal risk assessment and management process within the company.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Risks to the Group’s reputation Risks include acts or omissions by the Group or any of its employees that could damage the Group’s reputation or lead to a loss of trust among its stakeholders. Every risk type has potential consequences for Zurich’s reputation. Effectively managing each type of risk helps reduce such threats.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In 2020, we invested £880,000 in delivering over 20 energy efficiency projects including a boiler upgrade, building management systems optimisation, improved lighting controls, and the installation of LEDs. These are expected to result in annual energy savings of 2,250,000 kWh. Over the next 12 months, we will pursue ISO 50001 accreditation at our commercial offices.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Businesses subject to this policy and implementation methods In this document, section 4.3.1.3 (1) Financing and Investment Transactions Prohibited Regardless of Sector lists projects for which we prohibit any financing or investment.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In our Electricity Transmission business, we propose £1.35 billion of expenditure to connect new generation and transport electricity across the country to where it is consumed, connect us to neighbouring electricity markets and support the Electricity System Operator in being able to operate a zero-carbon electricity system by 2025. Whilst consistent with Ofgem’s business plan criteria, we recognise that these investments alone are insufficient to deliver net zero targets and have therefore proposed whole system options to accelerate progress towards net zero, for example through ultra-rapid vehicle charging at motorway service areas. As the optimal path to achieving net zero is unclear, we developed a series of uncertainty mechanisms that allow our plans to flex to deliver against the range of low-carbon system developments our customers could bring forward.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Considering the expectations and perspectives of our stakeholders, for the purpose of strengthening our environmental and societal considerations in making investment and financing decisions, we previously established a policy on initiatives involving sectors which have a high possibility of contributing to adverse environmental and social impacts. In April 2020, to more thoroughly reflect the tenets of our Human Rights Policy and Environmental Policy, we revised the policy to be comprehensive in prohibiting investment and financing in such initiatives regardless of sector, as well as points of caution ('Environmental and Social Management Policy for Financing and Investment Activity'). (Figures 13 and 14)
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Primarily concerning the below 2 C scenario, analysis was implemented on the impacts on credit rating in each scenario, and the financial impact on the overall credit portfolio in the targetted sectors.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: During FY2019, APA expects to commission the 110 MW Darling Downs Solar Farm, the 130 MW Badgingarra Wind Farm and the 17.5 MW Badgingarra Solar Farm. APA continues to evaluate further renewable energy opportunities together with stand-alone and integrated low emission gas generation. This combination of intermittent renewable generation with reliable, low emissions gas-fuelled generation is well positioned to help deliver energy to people, businesses and communities that use it, affordably, efficiently and reliably.
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Input: Given the significant impact of this period of uncertainty on both Canadian businesses and companies and governments around the world, and the resulting volatility in financial markets, we expect to see significant effects on several of our financial statement line items and on our financial results in 2020. The timing and size of those impacts is not possible to forecast at this time.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: DRAFT 1 d4a Changing regulatory requirements AnnualReport- We take our regulatory obligations seriously and manage non-compliance with regulatory requirements as a risk, with supporting risk appetite statements set by the Board.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The Group faces many other risks which, although important and subject to regular review, have been assessed as less significant and are not listed here. These include, for example, natural catastrophe and business interruption risks and certain financial risks. A summary of financial risks and their management is provided on page 29.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The sectors most negatively impacted by 2050 as a result of carbon pricing and related policies include fossil fuel intensive industries such as coal mining, carbon intensive power generation, and oil and gas exploration and production. The utilities sector experiences a high variation in impact, with the least carbon intensive companies experiencing positive growth. Within the transport sectors, air transportation is more affected than shipping, with road and rail transportation least affected due to the relative availability of electrification.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The foregoing list of risk factors is not exhaustive. Additional information about these factors can be found in the Risk Management section of the Bank's 2019 Annual Report. This information may be updated in our quarterly Shareholder Reports. Investors and others who rely on the Bank's forward-looking statements should carefully consider the above factors as well as the uncertainties they represent and the risk they entail.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Citi is focused on enabling progress in the communities in which we work and live. Together with companies, governments and institutions of all shapes, sizes, scale and scope, we lend, facilitate and invest in products and services that power the global economy. We also recognize that we can play an important role in working with others to address key social and economic challenges facing clients and communities. goal to lend, facilitate and invest $100 billion toward activities that reduce the impacts of climate change and create environmental solutions that benefit people and communities.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: No changes have been made to the Bank Windhoek exclusion list, which is used to assess clients against activities that are not permitted due to unacceptable environmental and social impacts. No applications were declined on account of high risk, the exclusion list or any other environmental or social related reasons. No loans were turned down on account of the ESMS and there are no clients at risk of material breaches of environmental laws and regulations or unacceptable social and environmental impacts.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: CORPORATE AND HOUSEHOLD DEBT 25 carried out a benchmark study of the banks’ calculated risk weights for exposures to commercial real estate. The results of the two analyses showed that there is a risk that the capital banks have earmarked for lending to commercial real estate will not sufficiently compensate for the credit losses that could arise following a severe financial stress. It is against this background that FI proposes higher capital requirements for lending to commercial real estate (see “Stability in the banking sector”).
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The British Columbia Carbon Tax Act sets a carbon price of $30 per tonne of CO2e on fuel combustion. Beginning April 1, 2018, the provincial carbon tax is expected to increase by $5 per tonne of CO2e per year, reaching the federal target carbon price of $50 on April 1, 2021. The tax may also be expanded to fugitive and vented emissions from the oil and gas sector. The Government of British Columbia has also introduced measures to reduce upstream
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Input: We have been investing in videoconferencing and remote working capabilities as part of our IT Transformation Programme. Videoconferencing is integrated into our online collaboration platforms, enabling colleagues to join virtual meetings anytime, anywhere. Our teams can run webcasts with up to 500 participants.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Bank has a dedicated market intelligence function that provides crucial insights beyond publicly available data, which are essential in helping to identify actual and incipient sources of monetary and financial instability. It also leads work on fair and effective markets, alongside the FCA and HM Treasury. Market intelligence from both these activities allows the Bank to monitor the development of green and sustainable financial markets, and helps inform the Bank's policy response to climate-related risks affecting monetary and financial stability.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Our Commitment to Transparency in Stewardship Given the growing interest in our stewardship efforts from clients and broader society, we have significantly increased investment stewardship disclosure in 2020, including: - BlackRock Investment Stewardship 2021 Global Principles and market- level voting guidelines: Sets out our stewardship philosophy and our views on corporate governance and sustainable business practices that support long-term value creation by companies. Our market level voting guidelines provide detail on how we implement the principles, taking into consideration local market standards and norms. Together they form the basis for our stewardship activities, including thought leadership, company engagement, and holding companies accountable by voting on management and shareholder proposals. - Our approach to sustainability: Special report on our approach to voting on climate risk and other sustainability topics. - Global quarterly stewardship reports: Case studies on individual engagements and data on the number of companies BIS engaged with during each quarter globally across a range of E, S, and G topics, including COVID-19 related issues. - Global vote disclosures: BIS' vote instructions for individual meetings globally. This record reflects votes at meetings held from July 1st through June 30th of the following year. It is updated quarterly until June 30th each year, when it is superseded by BlackRock's annual Form N-PX filing. - Vote bulletins: Vote bulletins describe our votes and rationales for key complex or high-profile votes. This has included bulletins on votes for more than 50 companies during the 2020 calendar year.31 - Enhanced client reporting: We implemented a new capability through Aladdin to deliver portfolio-specific company engagement reports for our clients.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The initiative has four working groups; government bonds, listed equities and corpo- rate bonds real estate and strategic asset alloca- tion. Representatives from AP2 participate in the steering group and in the working groups for government bonds and real estate.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Ultimately, sustainable growth is also about culture and tone from the top. Leaders across the bank promote our efforts, articulate its importance and champion the work needed to deliver sustainable growth well into the future.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Anticipated major impacts on the Group There are risks that the Group becomes unable to continue its business operations due to a disaster that strikes our head office or branch offices and a risk of the increase in costs due to countermeasures and recoveries.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In relation to our commercial activity we have set a green finance target to raise and facilitate 120Bn euros between 2019 and 2025 and 220Bn euros between 2019 and 2030. This includes Santander's overall contribution to green finance: project finance, syndicated loans, green bonds, capital finance, and export finance, advisory and other products to help our clients in the transition to a low carbon economy.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: For asset management companies belonging to a Group (most of the tested sample), inadequate internal supervision of the services (relating to IT, cybersecurity and business continuity) performed by the parent company was identified. But the technical execution of these services by the Group cannot exempt asset management companies from their responsibilities regarding the definition (in priority) of the main risk areas and management of the relevant controls.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Climate action lines: In 2018, CaixaBank signed an agreement with the European Investment Bank (EIB) consisting of a line of credit amounting to EUR 30 million to fund investments in SMEs, individuals, and the public sector to combat climate change (e.g., electric cars, modifications to facilities, and home improvements). In addition, CaixaBank acts as a broker for EIB funds related to renewable energy projects. Specifically, in 2018, EUR 35 million have been allocated to finance a wind farm project.
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Input: The Group is not aware of any noise pollution that could negatively impact the environment, nor is it aware of any impact on biodiversity. With regards to land use, the Group is only a commercial user, and the Group is not aware of any local constraints with regards to water supply. The Group does not believe that it is at risk with regards to climate change in the near-or mid-term.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: During FY2019, APA expects to commission the 110 MW Darling Downs Solar Farm, the 130 MW Badgingarra Wind Farm and the 17.5 MW Badgingarra Solar Farm. APA continues to evaluate further renewable energy opportunities together with stand-alone and integrated low emission gas generation. This combination of intermittent renewable generation with reliable, low emissions gas-fuelled generation is well positioned to help deliver energy to people, businesses and communities that use it, affordably, efficiently and reliably.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: - - A new loan or a subsequent decision for an existing loan is then approved depending on the extent of the risk ('risk exposure') by the relevant decision-making level (Senior Manager, Vice President, Team Head, Head of Division or Head of Department, Group Credit Risk Committee, entire Executive Board, Board of Supervisory Directors).
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: 14 those related to our products and services, demand and distribution, financial performance, credit rating and debt obligations. Given that developments concerning the COVID-19 pandemic have been constantly evolving, additional impacts and risks may arise that we are not aware of or able to appropriately respond to at this time.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The CFO convened a Scenario Discussion Workshop where members of senior leadership discussed the Company's current state, considered possible future scenarios, identified different risks and opportunities within these scenarios, and discussed the financial implication of these impacts on the Company.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In the US, the SEC has taken positive steps to facilitate e- delivery of mutual fund shareholder reports through the adoption of Rule 30e-3, which allows Registered Investment Companies to transmit shareholder reports electronically (subject to certain requirements). The ICI estimated that the adoption of Rule 30e-3 would save 1.87 million trees annually.63 Rule 30e-3 is effective beginning January 2021. We have long advocated for e-delivery given its benefits to investors and the environment, and we have encouraged the SEC to allow e-delivery as the default transmission mechanism beyond what they accomplished with 30e-3. In November 2020, the SEC Asset Management Advisory Committee recommended that the SEC further expand e- delivery. 64
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Company may not be able to offset such impact, including, for example, through higher freight rates. Climate change legislation and regulation could also affect CN's customers; make it difficult for CN's customers to produce products in a cost-competitive manner due to increased energy costs; and increase legal costs related to defending and resolving legal claims and other litigation related to climate change.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The quantitative investment strategies focus mainly on stock picking based on quality and valuation. It is precisely these strategies, which yield long-term value and are suitable for large portfolios, that tend to perform poorly in a context of highly accommodative central bank monetary policies. In 2019, all major quantitative investment styles performed poorly; stock picking based on valuation and quality and stock picking based on recent price trends both yielded negative returns. This combination is seldom seen.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: JPMorgan Chase believes that companies must do even more to help solve today’s biggest challenges and create economic opportunity for more people. To do so, they must invest in communities the same way they invest in their own businesses. As announced in early 2018, our firm will deploy $1.75 billion by 2023 to drive inclusive growth in communities around the world. Generating Return on Community is one of our core objectives because we know that the future of our company depends on the well-being of our communities.
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Input: Physical risks have a higher probability to impact coffee, with higher temperatures and water shortages compromising quality and reducing availability. This may lead to an increase in raw material costs for the industry, and have economic and social impacts on coffee-growing communities. For wheat and dairy, there is a potential increase in the volatility of regional sourcing due to greater local climate variability but overall we foresee limited impact on global macro yields.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: This broad, detailed study found BNP Pari- bas' business model to be resilient to these risks, with respect to: o its businesses, and the sector and geographic classifications of its portfolios; o the measures taken to mitigate these risks.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Philips’ supply chain is exposed to fluctuations in energy and raw material prices. Commodities such as oil are subject to volatile markets and significant price increases from time to time. If Philips is not able to compensate for, or pass on, its increased costs to customers, such price increases could have an adverse impact on its financial condition and operating results.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The new index was built in three stages: - Firstly, Controversial Weapons Manufacturers were excluded from the universe of stocks that make up the FTSE All World Index universe, as the Trustee has a financial preference for avoiding such stocks where possible. - Secondly, a four factor index was created (Value, Quality, Low Volatility and Low Size) that rebalances regularly through time to create a 'Balanced Factor' index with more attractive risk-return characteristics than the standard market capitalisation index. - Finally, three climate-related tilts were applied to the 'Balanced Factor' index to create a 'Climate Balanced Factor' index. The FTSE All World (ex controversial weapons) Climate Balanced Factor Index tilts away from Carbon Reserves and Carbon Emissions, whilst positively tilting towards Green Revenues. The tilts are set such that the inclusion of the climate-related tilts, introduces a relatively modest tracking error compared to the Balanced Factor index without climate tilts. This allowed the Trustee to conclude that the new index was consistent with its fiduciary duty and provided an element of climate change protection.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: 4) After segmentation, a calibration phase is proposed. In this phase, it is necessary to select five clients from each established segment minimally and to estimate the impact on their default probability against the established revenue, cost and investment impacts. There is no single way to apply this step, and it can be constructed either quantitatively or qualitatively.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Application - Projects with high and irreversible risks and po - tential impact, where it is not deemed possible to establish a viable action plan, or projects that con - travene the Bank's corporate values, are rejected.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: CORPORATE AND HOUSEHOLD DEBT 25 carried out a benchmark study of the banks’ calculated risk weights for exposures to commercial real estate. The results of the two analyses showed that there is a risk that the capital banks have earmarked for lending to commercial real estate will not sufficiently compensate for the credit losses that could arise following a severe financial stress. It is against this background that FI proposes higher capital requirements for lending to commercial real estate (see “Stability in the banking sector”).
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: An inability to successfully manage and leverage our strategic third-party relationships, or a critical failure of a key supplier or service provider, may expose Coles to risks related to compromised safety and quality, misalignment with ethical and sustainability objectives, disruptions to supply or operations, unrealised benefits, and legal and regulatory exposure.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In 2018, CN spent approximately $3.5 billion in its capital program, with $1.6 billion invested to maintain the safety and integrity of the network, particularly track infrastructure. CN's capital spending also included $1.0 billion on strategic initiatives to increase capacity, enable growth and improve network resiliency, including line capacity upgrades and information technology initiatives, $0.5 billion on equipment capital expenditures, including the acquisition of 500 new centerbeam cars and 65 new high-horsepower locomotives, and $0.4 billion on implementation of Positive Train Control (PTC), the safety technology mandated by the U.S. Congress.
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Input: Reputation: In managing our reputation we seek to avoid the loss of credibility due to internal or external factors. Many types of risk have the potential to negatively impact our corporate reputation. Internal business practices, or those of our business partners or the companies in which we invest, may generate reputation harm. Consequences include diminished brand efficacy in commercial markets, impeding our ability to execute our strategy and our status as investor, partner and employer of choice.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: While we support well-designed carbon pricing, we’re prepared to oppose poorly designed proposals. For example, we opposed the ballot initiative to introduce a carbon fee in Washington State, US in November 2018. We believed that the policy was badly designed and would have harmed Washington’s economy without significantly reducing carbon emissions. The ballot was not passed.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The Group is connected to all parts of the economy through its lending and other banking activities and considers it has an important role to play in financing the low-carbon transition. Therefore, in the 2020 financial year, the Group sought to calculate the Scope 3 emissions associated with key segments of its lending portfolio - residential mortgages, commercial real estate (office and retail), agriculture, power generation and resources (including coal, oil and gas). The objective was to better understand what might be required to align the Group's lending portfolio to the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement and a net zero emissions economy by 2050.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Dominion Energy is investing in strategic partnerships valued at $700 million to capture methane from hog-farming and dairy operations in seven states. With our partners — Smithfield Foods and Vanguard Renewables, and an alliance with the Dairy Farmers of America — we will process the methane from animal waste, and put it into the pipeline systems serving those states. This process captures methane emissions from waste ponds and reuses that methane in home heating, manufacturing, and more. Renewable natural gas is carbon-beneficial because it captures more emissions from the farms than are released when customers use the gas.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In terms of piloting, we are analysing CIB listed companies sub-portfolio data (about 30 percent of the total in terms of EAD of given portfolio) while for remaining companies we are applying proxies based on sector and size of the company.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Through these initiatives, Konica Minolta is aiming to achieve the business targets of more than ¥75 billion in operating profit, ¥50 billion in profit attributable to owners of the company, and ROE of 9.5% by fiscal 2019, the final year of the Medium Term Business Plan. Beyond this, we are looking to achieve a medium-term target of more than ¥100 billion in operating profit and more than ¥70 billion in profit attributable to owners of the company by fiscal 2021.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: We ensure that all airport operations, flight, and inflight crewmembers are equipped with the knowledge to identify and respond to potential cases of human trafficking through their initial training and subsequent annual recurrent training. In addition, all crewmembers can take an online human trafficking course. Crewmembers are taught what human trafficking is, who the victims typically are, what signs to look for, and how to report information of suspected human trafficking.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: We also invested in solar power generation with a £57 million long-term debt financing agreement to support Hermes Infrastructure, which provides solar photovoltaic systems for over 9,000 residential homes across the UK. This is a great example of how, across the group, we are seeking opportunities to address climate change and required energy transition.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: At Vancity, we are committed to helping our business members improve their environmental performance. One of the ways we do this is through our relationship with Climate Smart. Climate Smart provides training, coaching, and software for businesses to measure their carbon footprint, identify opportunities for cost, energy, and carbon savings, and communicate their efforts. Vancity offers members a $1,000 scholarship for Climate Smart training and 160 members have taken part in the program.
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Input: Cities account for 75 per cent of worldwide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. EBRD Green Cities, a programme that supports sustainable urban planning and investment, is central to Bank efforts to curb climate change. Under the initiative in 2018, the EBRD invested €265 million in 10 projects which together are expected to reduce GHG emissions by 319,000 tonnes annually. Donors help to fund the action plans that are the centrepiece of EBRD Green Cities and other aspects of the programme.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: At this stage the assessment is still considered qualitative, as further studies and research are yet to be completed, however it does indicate which risks may potentially have a material impact on Transurban's business. Each of these risks will be assessed further to confirm the scope and relative impact of the different consequences to better inform the management approach and reporting for future years.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Ultimately, sustainable growth is also about culture and tone from the top. Leaders across the bank promote our efforts, articulate its importance and champion the work needed to deliver sustainable growth well into the future.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: ■ While our facilities and operations are distributed across the globe, we can experience extreme weather, natural disasters, civil unrest, human-made disasters, power outages, pandemic, and other events which can prevent access to, and operations within, the facilities for our employees, partners, and other parties that support our business operations.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The Audit Committee Charter states that the committee will 'discuss policies and procedures with respect to risk assessment and risk management, the company's major risk exposures, and the steps management has taken to monitor and mitigate such exposures.' The Vice President and General Auditor, Corporate Auditing, whose appointment and performance is reviewed and evaluated by the Audit Committee, is responsible for leading the formal risk assessment and management process within the company.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In addi- tion, analyses of various trends will be performed periodi- cally in the future in order to revise assessments and disclose information on risks and opportunities related to other areas.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: As a founding member of the Australian Business Roundtable for Disaster Resilience & Safer Communities, IAG works collaboratively with governments to effect change in public policy, increase investment aimed at building safer and more resilient communities and working to improve the capacity of people and businesses to better withstand future natural disasters. IAG has also been invited by the Governments in Australia and New Zealand to play a role in climate change management, including active engagement and contribution to the National Resilience Taskforce in Australia. In New Zealand IAG is working through the Climate Leaders Coalition to ensure businesses are actively adapting and building resilience to climate impacts. As a key member of the Insurance Council of Australia, the representative body of the general insurance industry in Australia, IAG plays an active role in the Council's Climate Change Action Committee and Data and Knowledge Sub-Committee.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In addition, the impacts of physical and transition climate risks can lead to second order connected risks, which have the potential to affect the Barclays Bank Group’s retail and wholesale portfolios. The impacts of climate change may increase losses for those sectors sensitive to the effects of physical and transition risks. Any subsequent increase in defaults and rising unemployment could create recessionary pressures, which may lead to wider deterioration in the creditworthiness of the Barclays Bank Group’s clients, higher ECLs, and increased charge-offs and defaults among retail customers.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: A growing percentage of customers want to reduce their carbon footprint not only in their homes or businesses, but in the vehicles they drive as well. Electric vehicles are a growing consumer choice, and we are taking a three-pronged approach to help our customers seamlessly make the transition. We have several pilots underway in Minnesota to provide home charging options and public charging infrastructure, and to partner with communities and business customers to convert their fleets from traditional to electric vehicles. We recently announced a $25 million investment in electric vehicle infrastructure and believe these pilots will help our customers reduce energy and meet their sustainability needs. We expect to expand our electric vehicle efforts to other states in 2019 and beyond (read more on pages 10-11).
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Input: Based on these market developments, we continue to focus on policy and legal risks, as well as technology risks, as we mainly expect changes within these two dimensions to potentially impact asset values. In this way, we aim to capture those industries and groups of companies that are most exposed to these risks and may therefore require adjustments in the near to medium term.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Since 2016 we have also been working with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), using their mapping to identify parts of Australia with low rainfall and those areas more likely to experience rainfall variation. (Fig 1 - Rainfall Annual 30-year average (1986-2015)). When customers purchase properties in these areas, we test their financial resilience to climatic events like rainfall variation and drought. Customers with lower resilience may be subject to enhanced underwriting standards, for example, loan approval may be dependent on a lower loan to valuation ratio, higher repayments, or evidence of savings or equity. Our bankers also need to document the customer's knowledge of recent rainfall and climate trends where their farm is located and, if relevant, how they manage water budgets for irrigation.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: - green business development through: (i) a growing commitment to renewable energy (approximately 1,000 MW installed power in 2021); (ii) development of the second phase of the Venice biorefinery and the completion, by the end of 2018, of the Gela biorefinery; (iii) strengthening of green chemistry, with production of bio-intermediates from vegetable oil at Porto Torres, studies and partnerships with other operators. Eni's capex for the 2018-2021 four-year period amount to more than €1.8 billion, including R&D costs to support path to decarbonization.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Funds, launched a Climate Risk Monitoring Service and we also launched our £2.1bn All World Equity Climate Multi Factor Fund. RI will remain a high priority for all stakeholders in the Central Pool in the years ahead and we will continue to develop and enhance our corporate capabilities in this area.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: By their very nature, these forward-looking statements require assumptions to be made and involve inherent risks and uncertainties, both general and specific. Assumptions about the performance of the Canadian and U.S. economies in 2020, including in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how that affect the Bank's business are among the main factors considered in setting the Bank's strategic priorities and objectives.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: JPMorgan Chase believes that companies must do even more to help solve today’s biggest challenges and create economic opportunity for more people. To do so, they must invest in communities the same way they invest in their own businesses. As announced in early 2018, our firm will deploy $1.75 billion by 2023 to drive inclusive growth in communities around the world. Generating Return on Community is one of our core objectives because we know that the future of our company depends on the well-being of our communities.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In 2018, CN spent approximately $3.5 billion in its capital program, with $1.6 billion invested to maintain the safety and integrity of the network, particularly track infrastructure. CN's capital spending also included $1.0 billion on strategic initiatives to increase capacity, enable growth and improve network resiliency, including line capacity upgrades and information technology initiatives, $0.5 billion on equipment capital expenditures, including the acquisition of 500 new centerbeam cars and 65 new high-horsepower locomotives, and $0.4 billion on implementation of Positive Train Control (PTC), the safety technology mandated by the U.S. Congress.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The Group is not aware of any noise pollution that could negatively impact the environment, nor is it aware of any impact on biodiversity. With regards to land use, the Group is only a commercial user, and the Group is not aware of any local constraints with regards to water supply. The Group does not believe that it is at risk with regards to climate change in the near-or mid-term.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: For many investors, climate change poses significant financial challenges and opportunities. The expected transition to a lower carbon economy is estimated to require around £2.7 trillion, on average, in energy sector investments a year for the foreseeable future, generating new investment opportunities. At the same time, the risk return profile of companies exposed to climate-related risks may change significantly because of physical impacts of climate change, climate policy or new technologies.
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Input: Philips’ supply chain is exposed to fluctuations in energy and raw material prices. Commodities such as oil are subject to volatile markets and significant price increases from time to time. If Philips is not able to compensate for, or pass on, its increased costs to customers, such price increases could have an adverse impact on its financial condition and operating results.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Prior to submission to the Board of Directors for final approval, investment decisions are reviewed by the EBRD Investment Committee (OpsCom). OpsCom is chaired by the First Vice President and Head of Client Services Group and includes representatives of all relevant functions involved in the business activity, including Banking, Legal, Risk Management, and the Economics, Policy and Governance team looking after the mandated objectives of the EBRD.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The main impacts of the 4ºC scenario were: • Physical ramifications of climate change: in this scenario we expect extreme weather events of escalating severity and frequency, which could increase disruption to our assets and our customers. This would require investment to ‘harden’ assets and would heighten the safety risk to our field employees. Our approach to physical climate risk is discussed in more detail below. • Lower system visibility: as this scenario sees less coordinated policy and regulation in pursuit of decarbonisation, we would anticipate a greater variety of solutions being deployed across our networks. This could increase overall system costs and reduce visibility over the network, potentially slowing our responsiveness to disruptive events. We do note, however, that a greater number of distributed assets would increase the potential for local balancing, which could mitigate this. • Inequality of access: without carefully designed policy, we believe decarbonisation activities have the potential to leave some sectors of society behind: for example, heat pumps and the energy efficiency upgrades they typically require are currently cost-prohibitive for many. As well as the ethical implications of this, there is a risk to the Group, especially for our US businesses, that a proportion of our customers would struggle to pay their bills.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Climate change is a challenge faced by the entire P&C insurance industry. In particular, our home insurance business has been affected due to changing climate patterns and an increase in the number and cost of claims associated with severe storms. Water damages now make up more than half of our home insurance claims.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: We also assess risks on the basis of their potential impact on the value of our franchise, which is supported by our reputation, brand and good customer relationships. Conduct and operational risks, such as cyber security breaches, data loss and IT systems failure, in particular have the potential to significantly impact our franchise value.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The quantitative investment strategies focus mainly on stock picking based on quality and valuation. It is precisely these strategies, which yield long-term value and are suitable for large portfolios, that tend to perform poorly in a context of highly accommodative central bank monetary policies. In 2019, all major quantitative investment styles performed poorly; stock picking based on valuation and quality and stock picking based on recent price trends both yielded negative returns. This combination is seldom seen.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: MELBOURNE BACKS BTR In June 2019, we entered into an agreement with developer PDG to deliver 490 purpose-built, BTR apartments as part of the $450 million Munro development in Melbourne’s CBD. The Munro development is a key project within the City of Melbourne’s $250 million renewal of the Queen Victoria Market precinct.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Changes in precipitation patterns and extreme weather conditions such as floods, storms, droughts and fires may impact our plantations and the forests we source wood from and could result in fibre supply chain interruptions and higher fibre costs. Higher temperatures may also increase the vulnerability of forests to pests and disease. Increased severity of extreme weather events may also interrupt our operations. In water-scarce countries, we may see an impact on our production process as a result of limited water availability.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Climate Action 100+ VicSuper is collaborating with more than 280 investors, with a combined total of nearly US$30 trillion in assets under management, to engage the world’s largest greenhouse gas-emitting companies to act on climate change. Through the Climate Action 100+ initiative, VicSuper is engaging with investee companies to reduce emissions in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement, and to strengthen governance practices and financial reporting on climate change.
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Input: In terms of piloting, we are analysing CIB listed companies sub-portfolio data (about 30 percent of the total in terms of EAD of given portfolio) while for remaining companies we are applying proxies based on sector and size of the company.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: BBVA is focusing on increasing its activity in telecommunications infrastructures, given the social importance they have as facilitators of access to new technologies ('narrowing the digital divide'), digitization and contribution to economic development: ADAMO: Acquisition by the Swedish fund EQT of the fastest growing independent fiber supplier in Spain, whose main focus is rural communities.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: UPM will invest EUR 550 million in an industrial scale biorefinery to convert solid wood into next-generation biochemicals: bio-monoethylene glycol (BioMEG) and lignin-based renewable functional fillers. In addition, the biorefinery will produce bio-monopropyleneglycol (BioMPG) and industrial sugars. The total annual capacity of the biorefinery will be 220,000 tonnes. The facility is scheduled to start up by the end of 2022.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In addition to its efforts to develop sustainable products and services, the Bank has identified opportunities to be greener in its operations. The actions we have taken to improve the energy efficiency of our buildings have enabled us to currently exceed regulatory requirements and meet the expectations of our stakeholders. Over the past 20 years, the Bank has voluntarily adopted various measures to considerably improve the energy efficiency of its buildings. As a member of the Energy Savers Circle of Hydro-Quebec (a public utility that manages the transmission and distribution of electricity in Quebec), the Bank has set up an innovative web-based interface to remotely manage energy use at over 100 of its branches. This system allows the Bank to oversee its facilities and make sure they meet energy efficiency goals, year after year. The Bank also implements the criteria for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification in its buildings and aims for LEED v4 Gold certification for its new head office to be completed in 2023. Among other things, this allows the Bank to reduce its Greenhouse gas emissions despite an increase in activities. Our Greenhouse gas emissions for 2019 have been calculated at 9,732 tonnes of CO2-down 16% compared to 2017. The Bank has renewed its commitment to carbon neutrality by buying carbon credits to offset emissions that can't be eliminated. This year, the Bank has set a target to reduce its Greenhouse gas emissions by 25% by 2025. This science-based target aims to help limit global warming to 1.5 C, the most ambitious goal of the Paris Agreement.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: At the start of 2018, we announced a plan to increase our investment in electrification—expected to be over $11 billion by 2022—to substantially increase the number of battery electric vehicles we offer around the world. And we will have more to announce in 2018 as we remain focused on designing smart vehicles for a smart world that help people move more safely, confidently, and freely.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In addition, we have been gradually introducing RPA, which uses robots to automate a series of tasks previously performed by employees, resulting in a reduction in work hours of approximately 300,000 hours in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2020. Going forward, we will continue to promote automation and labor savings in data input operations to improve administrative efficiency.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Water is an essential input for our industrial activities. Concerns regarding the long-term availability and quality of water, and security of access to water, have increased due to changes to demography and climate. Damage caused by storm surges and strong winds can affect the availability of ports and critical infrastructure required to transport our goods. Changes in temperature can lead to heat stress affecting our workforce and equipment.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: However, in France, employees are involved in the Bank's long-term development through profit-sharing and/or incentive schemes. They are linked to the Company's overall performance (financial and non-financial) and regulated by Societe Generale agreements signed with the trade unions every three years. For Societe Generale SA in France, out of the total amount of profit-sharing and incentives paid in 2018 for the financial year 2017, 4% was relating to
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Through these initiatives, Konica Minolta is aiming to achieve the business targets of more than ¥75 billion in operating profit, ¥50 billion in profit attributable to owners of the company, and ROE of 9.5% by fiscal 2019, the final year of the Medium Term Business Plan. Beyond this, we are looking to achieve a medium-term target of more than ¥100 billion in operating profit and more than ¥70 billion in profit attributable to owners of the company by fiscal 2021.
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Input: Offsetting our emissions Australian Ethical offsets emissions by purchasing carbon credits in worthwhile projects. Emissions of 149.5 tCO2-e will be offset during FY15. Total emissions calculated include greenhouse gases emissions from energy and from travel. Projects that our carbon offset credits will assist are ‘Cookstove’ projects in Mali and Cambodia. The projects replace high polluting traditional cookstoves with fuel efficient stoves. Large volumes of wood and charcoal are required for the traditional cookstoves, which contribute to CO2 emissions from burning these fuels, but also increased desertification. The traditional stoves also contribute to indoor air pollution, which is linked to respiratory and eye diseases.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: The initiative has four working groups; government bonds, listed equities and corpo- rate bonds real estate and strategic asset alloca- tion. Representatives from AP2 participate in the steering group and in the working groups for government bonds and real estate.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: As for climate-related risks, we have followed TCFD classification in considering (1) risks related to the transition to a low-carbon economy in the 2°C scenario and (2) risks related to the physical impacts of climate change in the 4°C scenario, which assumes that efforts to reduce global CO2 emissions have failed. Risks are categorized into short term (over the next three years from fiscal 2019 to 2021), medium term (through fiscal 2030), and long term (through fiscal
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: - We are taking into account both transition risks and physical risks. - Our transition risks include credit risk related to financing and investment clients who are impacted by more stringent carbon taxes, fuel efficiency regulations, or other policies or by delays in shifting to low- carbon and other environmental technologies. Our transition risks also include operational risk related to reputational damage from financing fossil fuel projects.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: As our activities advance, the metrics and targets we use to monitor our success will likely evolve as well. Through our participation in industry groups, we intend to continue developing appropriate metrics that can be adopted consistently by financial institutions to provide comparable, decision-useful information to investors.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: At this stage the assessment is still considered qualitative, as further studies and research are yet to be completed, however it does indicate which risks may potentially have a material impact on Transurban's business. Each of these risks will be assessed further to confirm the scope and relative impact of the different consequences to better inform the management approach and reporting for future years.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Thus, the Board of Directors, upon recommendation of its Compensation & Governance Committee, and following a comparative review of national, European and industry practices, decided to maintain unchanged, for 2018, the Chief Executive Off icer’s target annual variable compensation, at €1.45 million, i.e. 100% of the amount of his annual fixed compensation.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: JPMorgan Chase is committed to reporting on our approach to and performance on a range of environmental and social issues. Our annual Environmental, Social, and Governance Report is one of the principal channels through which we discuss how we are addressing Environmental, Social, and Governance matters that we and our stakeholders view as among the most important to our business. We also strive to support industry-led efforts related to Environmental, Social, and Governance disclosure, such as through our participation on the TCFD. https://am.jpmorgan.com/blob-gim/1383499229069/83456/2018-Global%20Procedures%20and%20Guidelines-FINAL.pdf https://am.jpmorgan.com/blob-gim/1383499229069/83456/2018-Global%20Procedures%20and%20Guidelines-FINAL.pdf
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: 2 . As a further decarbonization driver, Eni intends to develop circular economy initiatives aimed at enhancing waste and biomass to extract new energy, new products or materials and to give new life to decommissioned or reclaimed assets. Overall spending in the four-year period 2019-22 for decarbonization, the circular economy and renewables is approximately €3.6 billion including scientific and technological research activities designed to support these issues.
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Input: Project using non-mechanized mining technology More than 2 new coal mine projects with underground mining face Project using backward production process equipment for coal mining While restricting the underwriting and investment in the coal industry, Ping An continuously optimizes financial resources to support the development of renewable energy.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Compliance risk Compliance risk is the risk of failure to comply with applicable rules and regulations, and in so doing, exposing the group to penalties and reputational damage. Penalties received or due for non-compliance are an example of this risk. As a leading financial services group, the group faces complex challenges to ensure that its activities comply with local legislation, regulations and supervisory requirements and the relevant international standards and requirements.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Indirect emissions, known as scope 2 and 3 emissions, result from operational activities we do not own or control. These include emissions produced as a consequence of electricity we purchase to power our treatment plants (scope 2) and other indirect emissions such as travel on company business (scope 3). Emissions from electricity we use are calculated by converting each kilowatt hour purchased into its carbon dioxide equivalent.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In our Electricity Transmission business, we propose £1.35 billion of expenditure to connect new generation and transport electricity across the country to where it is consumed, connect us to neighbouring electricity markets and support the Electricity System Operator in being able to operate a zero-carbon electricity system by 2025. Whilst consistent with Ofgem’s business plan criteria, we recognise that these investments alone are insufficient to deliver net zero targets and have therefore proposed whole system options to accelerate progress towards net zero, for example through ultra-rapid vehicle charging at motorway service areas. As the optimal path to achieving net zero is unclear, we developed a series of uncertainty mechanisms that allow our plans to flex to deliver against the range of low-carbon system developments our customers could bring forward.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Climate change exposes us to physical risks which may challenge our ability to effectively underwrite, model and price catastrophe risk particularly if the frequency and severity of catastrophic events such as pandemics, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires and windstorms and other natural disasters continue to increase. For example, losses resulting from actual policy experience may be adverse as compared to the assumptions made in product pricing and our ability to mitigate our exposure may be reduced.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In April 2018, the Group successfully completed a refinancing to convert floating to fixed debt and to extend the debt maturity out to November 2025. The Group issued a US$300 million bond with a fixed interest rate of 6.625%, which was swapped back to sterling upon issuance at an effective interest rate of 5%. The proceeds of the new issue were used to repay in full the £200 million floating rate bond issued in 2017 which had a maturity of 2022.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: JetBlue's workforce is broadly diversified among several job classifications, with Airport Operations crewmembers as the largest group at 31.3%. Nearly all (99.2%) of JetBlue's workforce is based in the United States. For more information on our workforce and crewmembers, see page 39. (TR0201-05)
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Compliance Risk Management Compliance risk (a type of operational risk) is the risk resulting from the failure to comply with laws (legislation, regulations and rules) and regulatory guidance, and the failure to appropriately address associated impacts, including to customers. Compliance risk encompasses violations of applicable internal policies, program requirements, procedures, and standards related to ethical principles applicable to the banking industry.
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Input: 2017 (36.01 tonCO 2 eq/kboe). This reduction already makes it possible to achieve the 2021 target, but Eni is nonetheless set on pursuing an improvement of at least 2% per annum in coming years as well. In addition to the upstream results already mentioned, this reduction was also made possible by a reduction in the emission intensity of refineries even with an increase in the performance index of EniPower. In 2018, Eni invested about €10 million in energy efficiency projects, which, once in full operation, will yield energy savings of 313 ktoe/year, amounting to a reduction in emissions of around 0.8 million tonnes of CO
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Input: Operational risk involves the risk of a positive, negative or potential loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, human behaviour and systems or from external incidents. Business continuity risk, financial reporting risk, model risk and HR risk are within the scope of the Group’s operational risk management. Operational incidents and losses in all (risk) areas are recorded in the Operational Incident Database.
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Input: Risks to the Group’s reputation Risks include acts or omissions by the Group or any of its employees that could damage the Group’s reputation or lead to a loss of trust among its stakeholders. Every risk type has potential consequences for Zurich’s reputation. Effectively managing each type of risk helps reduce such threats.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: We also assess risks on the basis of their potential impact on the value of our franchise, which is supported by our reputation, brand and good customer relationships. Conduct and operational risks, such as cyber security breaches, data loss and IT systems failure, in particular have the potential to significantly impact our franchise value.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Broadly, the 2 degrees scenario demonstrated that IAG would incur additional operating costs, mainly as a result of the increased cost of carbon or other policy interventions. The 4 degrees scenario also demonstrated that IAG would incur additional operating costs, but in this case, these would more likely arise from increased cost of operational disruption due to increased frequency of extreme weather events.
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Input: At Karnataka, we produced and sold 2.2 million tonnes during FY2018, in line with the allocated environmental clearance (EC) limits. The Honourable Supreme Court has increased the cap on production of iron ore for the state from 30 to 35 million tonnes, and accordingly increase in our allocation for Karnataka from 2.3 to 4.5 million tonnes in May 2018.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: As stockholders, we encourage transparency and accountability in the use of corporate funds to influence legislation and regulation. Nucor does not disclose its trade association memberships, or its payments used for lobbying. Nucor also does not disclose its membership in or payments to tax-exempt organizations that write and endorse model legislation, such as the Heartland Institute, a proponent of climate-change denial, and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a proponent of numerous controversial pieces of model legislation. We are concerned that Nucor’s lack of trade association and ALEC disclosure presents reputational risks. Over 100 companies have publicly left ALEC, including 3M, Deere, Emerson Electric and International Paper.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Disengaging and divesting from thermal coal, oil sands and oil shale Fossil fuels emit carbon dioxide (CO2) when burned and extracting them can harm the environment. We are working with customers and companies in which we invest that have more than 30 percent exposure to thermal coal, oil sands and oil shales to help them to reduce their use and exposure to these fuels. Zurich will also generally no longer underwrite or invest in companies generating more than 30 percent of their revenue from mining or more than 30 percent of their electricity from thermal coal.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: An additional advantage of these programs is increased pilot diversity, something the industry currently lacks (see 'Case Study: JetBlue Foundation'). Across all of our above mentioned programs, 7% of pilots are women, almost double the national average for airline transport. In Gateway Select, 20% of the pilots in our program are from underrepresented groups, about five times the national average.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: We have been investing our £200 million corporate ‘green’ loan in ongoing energy security and carbon reduction initiatives such as installing solar panels on our roofs, switching to natural refrigerants and generating green gas using combined heat and power (CHP) plants. We have also partnered with General Electric to install LED lighting in our stores, reducing our lighting energy consumption by around 58 per cent for the stores included in the rollout – a three per cent annual reduction in carbon emissions once the programme is completed. Currently, 17 per cent of our electricity comes from on-site renewables generation and renewable power purchase agreements.
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Input: In addition, the transition to a decarbonized society carries with it the risk of greenhouse gas emission regulations, such as the introduction and strengthening of a carbon tax, and technological improvements or rapid development of renewable energy technologies. There is a possibility that this shift could adversely affect the business performance and financial condition of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries, especially those engaged in fossil fuel-related business. The likelihood of these climate-related risks is largely dependent on the status of efforts to prevent climate change under the Paris Agreement.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Future intent We continually review our metrics and targets, as needed, to ensure that the data we are measuring is meaningful, aligns with our strategy, and is providing the information the business and our stakeholders need to effectively monitor our performance and demonstrate our progress. In 2020/21, we will be laying out our pathway to achieve our net zero by 2050 emission reductions and setting targets to align our ambitions and provide better visibility to our progress.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: For asset management companies belonging to a Group (most of the tested sample), inadequate internal supervision of the services (relating to IT, cybersecurity and business continuity) performed by the parent company was identified. But the technical execution of these services by the Group cannot exempt asset management companies from their responsibilities regarding the definition (in priority) of the main risk areas and management of the relevant controls.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The second half of 2017 had unprecedented weather events, particularly in Florida and the Caribbean. Hurricanes Irma and Maria resulted in over 2,500 canceled flights or 3% of departures. Following large weather events, it is common to see lingering demand impact similar to what we experienced in New York, following superstorm Sandy in 2012.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In 2020/21 we are investing €4.9m to improve the Erne and Derg cross border river catchments that are a source of our drinking water, piloting changes in land management techniques such as fencing to exclude livestock and replacing boom spraying of the herbicide MCPA for rush control, with weed wipers, which helps to reduce the amount of herbicide running off into our rivers and streams. It is hoped these initiatives will help restore nature and improve the water quality before it reaches our works.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: Impacts of Risks are consequences of risks, both quantitative and qualitative. There may be many consequences of risks manifesting, such as a reduction in earnings and capital, liquidity outflows, and fines or penalties, or qualitative impacts such as reputation damage, loss of clients and customers, and regulatory and enforcement actions.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: IAG is exposed to multiple risks relating to the conduct of its general insurance business. The risks noted below are not meant to represent an exhaustive list, but outline those risks faced by IAG that have been identified in IAG's RMS: strategic risk – the risk of not achieving corporate or strategic goals due to poor business decisions regarding future business plans and strategies and/or a lack of responsiveness to changes in the business environment;
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: In April 2020, we announced our A$20 million Community Support Fund which is supporting our host communities with the challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Since launching the Fund, a number of health, livelihood and economic recovery initiatives have been funded such as a partnership with the University of Queensland to support COVID-19 vaccine research, a contribution to the cost of new lost-cost ventilators and partnering with international organisations to deliver medical supplies, equipment, infrastructure and services in Papua New Guinea.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Climate change may cause extreme weather events that disrupt operations at one or more of our primary locations, which may negatively affect our ability to service and interact with our clients, and also may adversely affect the value of our investments, including our real estate investments. Climate change may also have a negative impact on the financial condition of our clients, which may decrease revenues from those clients and increase the credit risk associated with loans and other credit exposures to those clients. Additionally, our reputation may be damaged as a result of our involvement, or our clients’ involvement, in certain industries or projects associated with climate change.
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Input: The very high-risk categories encompass risk exposure to counterparties mainly in Central Asia and Turkey and several countries outside the Bank's regions (mainly in the Gulf). The risk assessment is done based on the key risk counterparty. In particular, where a project has a guarantee, the physical risk assessment is based on the guarantor, which is considered to be the key risk party in such circumstances.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In 2018, we committed to halving our scope 1 and 2 emissions intensity by 2030, from a 2017 baseline. We use a carbon intensity target per person, as headcount is closely linked to levels of business activity and this allows us to reflect the impact of acquisitions and disposals without needing to adjust our baseline. Our target was developed to align with climate science using a methodology aligned to the Science Based Target Initiative.
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Input: If Philips is unable to ensure effective supply chain management, e.g. facing an interruption of its supply chain, including the inability of third parties to deliver parts, components and services on time, and if it is subject to rising raw material prices, it may be unable to sustain its competitiveness in its markets.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: Metrics and Targets Scotiabank sets, monitors and reports on climate change related performance and targets annually in Scotiabank's Sustainable Business Report. The Bank also reports to Carbon Disclosure Project (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project). As part of Scotiabank's Climate Commitments, the Bank is tracking the initiatives that underlie its commitment as part of the metrics and targets it has adopted pursuant to these Commitments.
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Input: IFC expands the availability of such technologies by channeling investments toward private companies that build modern communications infrastructure and information-technology businesses. In FY18, we invested $376 million in initiatives related to technology, including funds mobilized from other investors — expanding our portfolio in this sector to more than $2.4 billion.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: The EBRD provided a total of €98 million to finance windfarm projects in Poland and invested 14 billion tenge (€63 million equivalent) in a wind farm in Kazakhstan, considered a highly promising country for renewable energy development. The Bank signed wind and solar energy projects in Romania and financed the construction of a new hydropower plant in Georgia that will be one of the country’s few privately owned, greenfield hydropower plants.
Symbol: Not Climate Event
Input: In April 2020, we announced our A$20 million Community Support Fund which is supporting our host communities with the challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Since launching the Fund, a number of health, livelihood and economic recovery initiatives have been funded such as a partnership with the University of Queensland to support COVID-19 vaccine research, a contribution to the cost of new lost-cost ventilators and partnering with international organisations to deliver medical supplies, equipment, infrastructure and services in Papua New Guinea.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: At the announcement of the business plan for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2020, as for investments and loans, we are setting the target at ¥2.1 trillion, which is within the three-year cumulative range announced already, and there is no change to our forecasts for asset recycling and shareholder returns.
Symbol: Climate Event
Input: This includes storms, flooding, wildfires and water and heat stress which can damage our buildings, jeopardise the safety of our people and significantly disrupt our operations. At present 9% of our headcount are located in countries at “extreme” risk from the physical impacts of climate change in the next 30 years.
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