Responsible Pathway Live: Climate change, carbon mitigation and a just transition

15/07/2022 1h 10min
Responsible Pathway Live: Climate change, carbon mitigation and a just transition

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“Net zero involves as much mitigation possible before you start to do the offsetting. From a systems perspective, there is only so much the land, forestry, agriculture, etc. can absorb and we think it’s about 5 gigatonnes. So we need to shrink global emissions to 5 gigatonnes from the 50 it is today.”This final panel of Responsible Pathway explored the hot topic of climate change with four industry experts -Alex Monk, Portfolio manager at Schroders, Charlie Miller, Climate strategist at Legal & General Investment Management, Dan Grandage, Head of sustainable investing at abrdn and Lorna Logan, Portfolio manager at Stewart Investors. In this lively session they debated:The opportunities and challenges presented by climate change.Engagement versus divestment in enabling a just transition.The importance of carbon mitigation in achieving net zero by 2050.How data can be used to measure and evidence change.Find out more: https://www.squaremileresearch.com/Insights-Resources/Articles/ArticleID/255/Climate-change-carbon-mitigation-and-a-just-transition👥 STAY IN TOUCH 👥Follow us on LinkedIn.Subscribe to our monthly newsletter.Thank you for listening!

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