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The Largest Risk (and Opportunity) Investors Are Ignoring

Harvard Business Review

As Nick Robins from the bank HSBC described to the audience, in a scenario of global peak fossil fuel use by 2020 “implies a 44% reduction in discounted cash flow value of fossil fuel companies” — or in simpler terms, a decline in share price of 40 to 60 percent. Economy Finance Sustainability' coal market.