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Assessing the Landscape of Climate Risk and Supply Chain Resilience: A Primer for Corporate Leaders and Climate Risk Professionals

Global supply chains face mounting risks from climate change, geopolitics, and economic volatility. While corporate resilience planning has grown since COVID-19, climate risk is still treated separately from supply chain management, creating gaps in preparedness. This report highlights how extreme …

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Redefining Fiduciary Duty: Climate Risk, Stewardship, and the Transition Imperative

This paper is part of C2ES’ Finance and Net Zero Transition: Thematic Briefs series. Fiduciary duty, the obligation to act in the best interest of beneficiaries, is being reshaped by the realities of climate risk. Once narrowly focused on short-term …

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Achieving Economies of Scale for New Battery Supply Chain Manufacturing Facilities

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Economic Clustering 101

Economic clustering is when complementary industries, institutions, and workforces locate near each other. By setting up shop in close proximity, businesses can trade with each other, develop specialized workforces, and cultivate a specialized global competitive advantage that spurs rapid economic …

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Gaps in the Southeast US Supply Chain

The southeast is rapidly becoming a central hub for battery manufacturing, but critical parts of the supply chain lag in development, leaving the region dependent on imports and vulnerable to market shocks.

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Leveraging Corporate Transition Plans for Investment Decision-Making

This paper is part of C2ES’ Finance and Net Zero Transition: Thematic Briefs series. A credible net zero transition should include a science-aligned emission reduction target and supporting metrics, decarbonization strategies, capital allocation, governance, aligned policy and advocacy activities, and considerations for …

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Navigating the Finance Sector Net-Zero Transition: Levers for Decarbonizing in a Complex Landscape

Positioned at the center of global capital flows, financial institutions are uniquely equipped to shape the pace and scale of the net-zero transition. To stay on track for a 1.5-degree-C pathway, investment must increase nearly fivefold to $7.4 trillion annually …

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