As we manage our way through the coronavirus pandemic, we must not lose sight of the systemic risk posed by the climate crisis. In the second of Federated Hermes series, Nick Spooner explores how climate breakdown will exacerbate infectious diseases, and the steps that companies, investors and governments need to take to mitigate the impacts of the climate crisis and future pandemics.
For millennia the earth has floated in a temperature zone set just right for human civilisation to settle down in ever-increasing degrees of comfort. But if an overly relaxed world has since slept through a series of environmental alarms, the coronavirus crisis may well be the wake-up call it needs to avert the worst climate change bear scenarios.
Read The Goldilocks crisis: why we must use covid-19 to wake up to climate change here.
Leading ASI’s climate agenda is Eva Cairns, Senior ESG Investment Analyst. Aberdeen Standard Investments talk to Eva on host of topics, from about her wide-ranging views on responsible investment and her passion in helping address climate change, to why she’s so keen that we all “grow the pie”.
Listen to The ASI Responsible Investing podcast: The climate agenda here.
Growing numbers of countries, cities and companies have pledged to become net zero by 2050 to meet the goals of the Paris agreement. Estimates suggest, collectively, these net-zero pledges represent nearly 25% of world emissions and 50% of global output.
Watch Aberdeen Standard Investments video on climate change: investor risks and opportunities.
Watch Climate change: investor risks and opportunities here.
Our climate is changing. In recent years, we have seen an increase in costly extreme weather events such as storms, wildfires and floods. At the same time, we are living through the hottest years on record. Read Aberdeen Standard Investments paper below.