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This report examines the systemic risk posed by a belated awareness about the importance of controlling emissions resulting in an abrupt implementation of quantity constraints on the use of carbon-intensive energy sources.

This paper by IEA presents an outlook for the market share of electric vehicles driven by government policy, innovation, costs and infrastructure deployment, including the levels of electric vehicle deployment in leading transition scenarios.

This report summarizes and analyzes the disclosures made through the 2016 CDP information request. It is aimed at companies facing water risks and opportunities in relation to climate change, and investors seeking to better understand how water issues might impact their portfolios.

This technical bulletin highlights findings related to climate risk arising from research conducted by SASB as part of its standards-setting process. The bulletin provides an overview of where climate-related risk is likely to be present in a typical portfolio, and what types of risk are present, along with the financial implications. It also summarizes the quality of existing disclosure on climate-related risk by SEC registrants.

This guide by A4S outlines how businesses can adapt their existing capital investment appraisal processes in a pragmatic and systematic manner to integrate social and environmental issues. The guide describes how traditional financial return-based investment decisions can be broadened, to make sustainability issues more explicit and transparent. Examples are also provided of how this can lead to more cost effective and resilient investment decisions.

This report seeks to bring clarity to a corporate audience, as well as other relevant stakeholders, on how to better understand water valuation, water risks, and the possibilities for better water stewardship.

The Paris Agreement is an agreement within the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) dealing with greenhouse gases emissions mitigation, adaptation and finance starting in the year 2020.

This paper analyzes the trade-offs between two fundamental ecosystem services which will be impacted by climate change: provisioning services derived from agriculture and regulating services in the form of freshwater quality.

This paper estimates reductions to generating capacity in the Western United States based on long-term changes in streamflow, air temperature, water temperature, humidity and air density.

This report sets out scenarios for the power sector in 2030 as an input to the committee's advice on the fifth carbon budget. The fifth carbon budget sets a limit on UK emissions of greenhouse gases over the period 2028 to 2032. The scenarios discussed in this paper set out possible futures for the UK power sector, and are not intended to set out a prescriptive path.

This paper presents a global assessment of the vulnerability of the world’s current hydropower and thermoelectric power-generation system to changing climate and water resources, and test adaptation options for sustainable water–energy security during the twenty-first century.

This paper looks at how climate policy risk might propagate through the financial system. It develops a network-based climate stress-test methodology and apply it to large Euro Area banks in a ‘green’ and a ‘brown’ scenario.