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oil, gas, and coal companies, and "carbon-intensive industries such as steel, aluminum, cement, plastics, and greenhouse horticulture". More broadly, countries that rely on fossil fuel exports and workers with technology-specific skills can be thought of in terms of stranded assets. According to the Stranded Assets Programme at the
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has gained significant prominence in environmental and climate change discourse, where the focus has been on how environment-related factors (such as climate change) could strand assets in different sectors. The term "climate-related asset stranding" is often used in this context. This will affect
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defines stranded assets as "those investments which are made but which, at some time prior to the end of their economic life (as assumed at the investment decision point), are no longer able to generate an economic return, as a result of changes in the market and regulatory environment."
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is expected to cause a significant increase in stranded assets for carbon-intensive industries and investors, with a potential ripple effect throughout the world economy.
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represents the existing investments in infrastructure for the incumbent utility that may become redundant in a competitive environment.
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is one popular example of how an environment-related risk factor could create stranded assets.
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falling clean-technology costs (e.g. solar photovoltaics, onshore wind, electric vehicles)
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Background Briefing, UNEP Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System
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In discussions of electric power generation deregulation, the related term
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WEO Special Report 2013: Redrawing the Energy Climate Map
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van der Ploeg, Frederick; Rezai, Armon (6 October 2020).
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Index

assets
write-downs
liabilities
creative destruction
Climate change
risk management
economic loss
asset
liability
IAS 16
non-performing
University of Oxford
Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
natural capital
resource depletion
carbon pricing
carbon bubble
fossil fuel divestment
consumer behaviour
litigation
International Energy Agency
carbon bubble
stranded costs
Recycling concrete of abandoned buildings
Carbon bubble
Carbon offsetting
Carbon tax
Climate lawsuit
Disruptive innovation
Environmental stewardship

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