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It details a step-by-step workflow involving county property records, business entity registries like OpenCorporates and Secretary of State databases, and web searches to trace ownership from a specific property up to parent companies or hedge funds.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"pestake-000201#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Landlords frequently use Limited Liability Corporations (LLCs) to create \"ownership obscurity,\" which protects owners from debt and lawsuits by treating each business as a distinct legal entity.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"pestake-000201#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"There is no centralized national database in the US for tracking land ownership, eviction activity, or money laundering, forcing researchers to rely on fragmented public records that vary by state and county.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"pestake-000201#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The guide recommends a specific research sequence: starting with web searches, then using county tax assessor property records or parcel viewers to find the legal owner and mailing address, and finally using corporate registries to identify the people behind the LLC.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"pestake-000201#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Many large corporate landlords incorporate in Delaware due to the state's simplified corporate laws, lenient tax policies, and reduced restrictions, often establishing local \"branches\" in the states where they operate.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"pestake-000201#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Researchers can bypass corporate opacity by identifying 'directors and officers' (legal representatives) or 'registered agents' (persons designated to receive legal documents), though some landlords use 'corporate servicers' to provide virtual offices and further hide ties to staff.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"pestake-000201#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Using a case study of Grandview Estates Mobile Home Park in Florida, the guide demonstrates how tracing an LLC through property records, OpenCorporates, and news articles can reveal that a property is functionally controlled by a national hedge fund, in this case, Alden Global Capital.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"pestake-000201#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["housing","real property"],"geography_discussed":["Florida","Delaware","Hillsborough County","New Jersey"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["methodological guide","case study"]},{"id":"wwfza-000206","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/wwfza-000206","title":"SOUTH AFRICA CASE STUDY: NEDBANK NATURE RISK ASSESSMENT JOURNEY APPLYING THE TNFD LEAP APPROACH TO CREDIT PORTFOLIOS","publisher":{"name":"WWF South Africa","organization":"wwf-south-africa"},"document_type":"case study","language":"en","date_published":"2026-02","source_url":"https://wwfafrica.awsassets.panda.org/downloads/tnfd-nedbank-2026_risk-assessment-case-study_final-feb-2026.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"Nedbank implemented the TNFD LEAP framework to assess nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks, and opportunities (DIROs) within its credit portfolio, primarily focusing on the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. Using a double materiality lens and tools like ENCORE and the WWF Water Risk Filter, the bank identified six priority sectors—real estate, manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, mining and quarrying, energy, and agriculture—based on financial exposure and nature-related scores. While real estate had the highest financial exposure but low nature impact, primary sectors like agriculture and mining showed high dependency and impact. A specific review of a mining client revealed operational interfaces with Critical Biodiversity Areas and Strategic Groundwater Resource Areas, highlighting risks associated with South Africa's water scarcity. 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The Institute recommends that the SCSAE move beyond simple exposure analysis to incorporate asset vulnerability, regional differences within Canada, and the economic opportunities presented by the clean energy transition to avoid distorting the financial risk landscape.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cliinstca-000121#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Climate change poses significant threats to Canada's financial health, with over 70% of national goods exports at risk of market disruptions caused by the transition. 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In the USD market, green bonds averaged 3.8 times oversubscription and 29.3bps spread compression, versus 2.7 times and 22.5bps for vanilla equivalents.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clibonds-001007#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Approximately 65% of green bonds were allocated to investors who identified as having green or responsible investment mandates.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clibonds-001007#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"A 'greenium'—where a bond prices inside its own yield curve—was achieved by 10 out of 50 non-sovereign green bonds for which yield curves could be constructed.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clibonds-001007#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Green bonds demonstrated better secondary market liquidity than vanilla equivalents in the real estate and utility sectors, characterized by higher turnover and narrower bid/offer spreads for bonds aligned with the Climate Bonds Database.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clibonds-001007#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) showed evidence of a greenium, with 14 out of 37 analyzed SLBs achieving this pricing benefit, though this was more prevalent in USD instruments issued in 2021 than in 2022.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clibonds-001007#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Sovereign green bond activity in H1 2022 included the debut of Austria's first green bond (EUR 4bn) and France's first inflation-linked green bond (EUR 4bn).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clibonds-001007#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Total assets in EUR and USD green bond ETFs ended H1 2022 at USD 1.75bn, representing a 3% decline from the previous period.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clibonds-001007#insight-8","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["climate bond","climate finance","energy transition","real property"],"geography_discussed":["European Union","United States","Austria","France","Indonesia","People's Republic of China","South Korea"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["market analysis","pricing study","liquidity assessment"]},{"id":"rmi-000528","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/rmi-000528","title":"Financing 1.5°C: Five Trends to Watch in Climate-Aligned Finance in 2022","publisher":{"name":"RMI","organization":"rmi"},"document_type":"briefing","language":"en","date_published":"2022-01-10","source_url":"https://rmi.org/resources/five-trends-to-watch-in-climate-aligned-finance-in-2022/","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The briefing outlines five trends for climate-aligned finance in 2022: the substantiation of net-zero commitments through interim targets, the publication and assessment of credible transition plans, a shift toward real-economy impact over paper alignment, the adoption of forward-looking data and metrics, and the expansion of sectoral alignment agreements for high-emitting industries.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"rmi-000528#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Financial institutions are expected to move beyond general net-zero pledges by setting specific interim targets for 2025 and 2030. 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