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'Aladdin Climate': BlackRock debuts new climate risk software platform for clients
World's largest investor launches software platform that allows clients to stress test investments against different warming scenarios, as company reveals climate risk is now clients' number one concern
Asset management industry's responsible investment claims do not match its voting record
BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street branded 'crucial laggards' in latest ShareAction report
Positive tipping points to net zero and how to finance them
The finance sector has the means, and the scientists have the data, to model interventions with much greater impact than we see today, explain Federated Hermes' Eoin Murray, and Tim Lenton from the Global Systems Institute
Third Derivative: Blue chips team up to launch climate tech accelerator
Rocky Mountain Institute and New Energy Nexus launch climate technology accelerator launches to help fledgling companies scale, attract investment, and forge partnerships, with backing from some of the world's largest corporates
BlueTrack: Barclays debuts new dashboard to track progress towards net zero portfolio
But campaigners warn new strategy does not move fast enough to end financing for fossil fuel infrastructure
Nine community-led climate projects scoop National Lottery funding
Schemes in Glasgow, London, Nottingham and Yorkshire are among projects to snap up awards in the range of £151,000 to £1.5m in second round of National Lottery’s Climate Action Fund.
Why business needs to see an ambitious NDC
ScottishPower's Keith Anderson argues that the growing band of businesses and investors committed to accelerating the net zero transition need the government to submit a suitably ambitious national climate action plan to the UN
How climate change might affect investment returns
VIDEO: What Schroders' analysis tell us about global warming and investments?
DNV: Current climate policies inadequate to solve emissions crisis
Norwegian environmental auditing giant DNV argues more radical climate action is needed across five key strategic areas in a new report published today
EU watchdog slams Commission for appointing BlackRock as ESG finance advisor
European Ombudsman calls on EU to update its conflict of interest guidelines for procurement contracts following its decision to hire a business division of world's leading fossil fuel financier to develop ESG banking regulation study
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Better Finance, Better Food: Investors urged to help transform the food system
A new report has compiled more than 50 examples of financial projects aimed at generating more than $1bn in capital for sustainable land-use projects
The Spending Review: Green announcements at a glance
All the green details from the government's new Spending Review and National Infrastructure Strategy
'He muffed it': Green economy reacts to Rishi Sunak's first Spending Review
National Infrastructure Bank welcomed, but failure to build on government's new 10 Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution is roundly condemned by green groups
Chancellor unveils plan for National Infrastructure Bank, as Treasury hints at new net zero test
But speech provides little new support for green recovery, as Rishi Sunak details bleak economic outlook and controversially cuts overseas development aid
How the UK climbed back into the top five most attractive renewables markets
EY's annual league table sees UK climb two places after wave of supportive policy measures for wind and solar in 2020
Business leaders call on government to put carbon pricing at heart of UK climate plan
Groups as diverse as Tesco and Greenpeace back letter urging government to deliver stronger and more consistent carbon pricing regime
A new net zero doctrine: Delivering a green recovery without increasing debt
Moixa CEO Simon Daniel sets out the case for reallocating a proportion of unfunded state and defined benefit pension obligations that would have paid for energy and mobility costs towards low carbon infrastructure
Report: Institutional investors plan to almost double allocations to renewables by 2025
Survey reveals surging demand for renewables, as leading investment firms ramp up clean energy ambitions
'Emissions disclosure alone is not enough': Sir Chris Hohn launches investor campaign for AGM climate votes
Investor reveals his TCI hedge fund has filed climate resolutions at Alphabet, S&P, and Moody's as he launched campaign to force hundreds more companies to give shareholders annual climate vote
Government poised to unveil plans for net zero-focused National Infrastructure Bank
Chancellor reportedly set to launch new bank and reform Green Book to allow increased support for low carbon infrastructure
Scottish National Investment Bank launches to help drive net zero agenda
New bank set to invest £2bn over the next decade, with green infrastructure a top priority
Government eyes energy efficiency targets for UK mortgage lenders
Mortgage lenders could face targets to achieve an EPC rating of C across their portfolio properties by 2030 under consultation proposals
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