Attention investors: Climate policy could knock off half the value of fossil fuel companies

Attention investors: Climate policy could knock off half the value of fossil fuel companies | Grist

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Attention investors: Climate policy could knock off half the value of fossil fuel companies

A recent (subscriber-only) report from HSBC Global Research helps shed some light on what’s at stake in the fight over climate policy. Short answer: a hell of a lot, especially if you’re invested in fossil fuels. The International Energy Agency says that, to have a 50 percent chance of limiting global average temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius, we can only afford to burn about a third of known fossil-fuel reserves between now and 2050. That means leaving around $20 trillion worth of assets in the ground. That is global warming’s “terrifying new math .” The analysts at HSBC tried to figure out what would happen to the value of European oil and gas companies if governments put in place policies to achieve this goal. Not surprisingly, the effects would be dire. First HSBC assumes that, with policies to hit 2 degrees in place, any projects at a cost of more than $50/barrel ...

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