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Is ESG a compliance burden? – Barnett Waddingham

At an Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Summit, held by Professional Pensions, Barnett Waddingham spoke about ESG’s identity crisis.

Posted on Apr 20, 2023

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... The international conference comes a month after the United Nations warned that there's "no credible pathway to 1.5°C in place." Without additional action, current policies will lead to warming of 2.8°C by 2100. A continuation of the level of climate change mitigation implied by current climate pledges1 lowers these projections to about 2.6°C. To put those temperature rises into context, 1.8°C (read: below the lower threshold of the current best-case scenario) exposes half the world’s population to life-threatening effects of climate change.

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