Carbon Blogs (13 articles)

Are Financial Advisers Lemmings? A Stern warning to Investors - passive or active

By Mark Hoskin , IFA at Holden & Partners on 25 April 2013 Market Blog

After my last blog on risk I was emailed by a passive Investment House to say that you would not get his investors to believe that you can make any predictions on what might happen in the future. Might I suggest you read the Carbon Tracker report it might just change your perspective a bit??

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The UK Canary in the Carbon Mine

By Edward Franks , WHEB Asset Management on 19 April 2013 Market Blog

Yesterday the Carbon Tracker Initiative (‘CTI’) launched its second report, with a well-attended event at Bloomberg’s offices. “Unburnable Carbon 2013: Wasted capital and stranded assets” picks up where CTI’s original 2011 report left off. The...

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Comatose carbon markets

By Seb Beloe , WHEB Asset Management on 19 April 2013 Thematic Blog

Back in 2009, along with tens of thousands of others, I joined the Climate March as it snaked through Central London demonstrating support for a strong global deal on climate change at the Copenhagen Summit. What was surprising to me on that march was the level of antipathy directed towards the...

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Al Gore's Most Important Talk Ever

By Tim Dieppe , WHEB Asset Management on 20 March 2013 Market Blog

I attended a talk by Al Gore earlier this week hosted by ShareAction (which recently changed its name from Fair Pensions). To my surprise, he described it as: “the most important talk I have ever given.” His mission these days is to promote a shift to a more sustainable capitalism...

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The Voluntary Carbon Credit scam goes on

By Mark Hoskin , IFA at Holden & Partners on 15 March 2013 Market Blog

The carbon credit floor introduced by the UK government in April 2013 of £16 does not apply to Voluntary Carbon Credits. Today I was called by a man who had invested £140,000 into Voluntary Carbon Credits. He wanted to know how to sell these now. There is no way to sell these. They are...

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Why gas is not green

By Seb Beloe , WHEB Asset Management on 11 October 2012 Thematic Blog

We’ve talked in previous blog posts about the shale gas revolution in the US and the growing enthusiasm for natural gas as a relatively low carbon fuel. There is no doubting the growing momentum building behind natural gas as a source of energy. But is gas really a green fuel?

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What the shale oil counter-revolution means for clean energy

By Edward Franks , WHEB Asset Management on 10 May 2012 Market Blog

More big changes are afoot in the shifting sands of the global energy industry. Crude oil derived from shale formations (‘Shale Oil’) suddenly has the potential to create an abundance of hydrocarbon energy for transportation, where previously it was in short and ever-dwindling supply....

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How Capital Markets and the West laugh in the face of carbon emissions - while looking holier than thou!

By Mark Hoskin , IFA at Holden & Partners on 28 January 2012 Thematic Blog

The recently issued Carbon Tracker report about the exposure of the FTSE 100 to coal mining highlights not just the risks to investors, but the way that capital markets and nations can disregard carbon pricing, while looking holier than thou, in their investment and policy decisions because of the...

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The Carbon Bubble - who is listening?

By Mark Hoskin , IFA at Holden & Partners on 24 January 2012 Thematic Blog

Today on Radio 4 Lord Lawson was asked to discuss climate change. Afterwards I saw this tweet - "Why bring on Nigel Lawson to debate climate change, it's like bringing on John Terry to debate Plato". I wish I could claim this quote. It is the sort I like - a bit extreme, but it makes a good point!...

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Unbalanced news shows the environmental message is not getting through

By Mark Hoskin , IFA at Holden & Partners on 6 January 2012 Thematic Blog

In yesterday's Cityam an article was published entitled “Going Green isn’t easy when you’re so far in the red”. There is nothing wrong with this statement, but rather the nature of the following text, which seemed to suggest that Shale Gas is the answer to our problems,...

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How Capital Markets and the West laugh in the face of carbon emissions - while looking holier than thou!

Thanks for that insight Mark. It is depressing to be reminded that hypocrisy is so rife in this...

Patrick Smyth | 1 month, 3 weeks ago | read more

Sustainability should be part of a debate on how we explain Investment Risk

Mark this is a major challenge for everybody connected to promoting SRI. UKSIF have just been...

Richard Essex | 2 months ago | read more

Al Gore's Most Important Talk Ever

Good point well made.

We need more high profile people like Al Gore to be making...

Richard Essex | 2 months, 3 weeks ago | read more

The Voluntary Carbon Credit scam goes on

I have just come across a site:

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The Voluntary Carbon Credit scam goes on

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