MPs call for mandatory climate risk reporting

Madeleine Cuff
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Following inquiry into green finance, Environmental Audit Committee concludes large companies and asset owners - such as pension funds - should be forced to report their exposure to climate change risks and opportunities

The government should force large companies to come clean about their exposure to the impacts of climate change, according to MPs who today voiced concern about "short-term thinking" in the UK financial...

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