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Global warming: Shareholders must vote for climate-change mitigation

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  • Howard Covington

    (Howard Covington is chair of the Alan Turing Institute in London.)

  • James Thornton

    (James Thornton is chief executive of ClientEarth, an environmental-law firm in London.)

  • Cameron Hepburn

    (Cameron Hepburn is professor of environmental economics at the University of Oxford, UK.)

Abstract

Investors who are standing idly by as emissions erode the value of their stock could find themselves in court, warn Howard Covington and colleagues.

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  • Howard Covington & James Thornton & Cameron Hepburn, 2016. "Global warming: Shareholders must vote for climate-change mitigation," Nature, Nature, vol. 530(7589), pages 156-156, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:530:y:2016:i:7589:d:10.1038_530156a
    DOI: 10.1038/530156a
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    1. Frederick van der Ploeg & Armon Rezai, 2020. "Stranded Assets in the Transition to a Carbon-Free Economy," Annual Review of Resource Economics, Annual Reviews, vol. 12(1), pages 281-298, October.
    2. Birte Ewers & Jonathan F. Donges & Jobst Heitzig & Sonja Peterson, 2019. "Divestment may burst the carbon bubble if investors' beliefs tip to anticipating strong future climate policy," Papers 1902.07481, arXiv.org.
    3. Mikel González-Eguino & Antxón Olabe & Teresa Ribera, 2017. "New Coal-Fired Plants Jeopardise Paris Agreement," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(2), pages 1-4, January.
    4. Mateo Ortiz & María‐Ángeles Cadarso & Luis‐Antonio López, 2020. "The carbon footprint of foreign multinationals within the European Union," Journal of Industrial Ecology, Yale University, vol. 24(6), pages 1287-1299, December.
    5. Sam Fankhauser & Sugandha Srivastav & Ingrid Sundvor & Stephanie Hirmer & Gireesh Shrimali, 2023. "Net zero portfolio targets for development finance institutions: Challenges and solutions," Global Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 14(5), pages 716-729, November.

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