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Asset management giant signals it will vote on climate-related shareholder resolution at 7 May AGM

High street banks such as Barclays, HSBC and Standard Chartered are facing growing pressure from activists, shareholders and potentially regulators over their links to to coal and potential stranded asset risk

COP26 Private Finance Agenda aims 'to ensure every professional financial decision takes climate change into account'

Banking giant set to unveil beefed up climate investment policies at annual investor day

As the White House bristles at suggestions its climate stance is evolving, everyone from the IMF to JP Morgan are stepping up calls for a bolder global response to the escalating crisis

Financial accounting watchdog stresses companies already have a responsibility to report on environmental impacts and climate risks, as major new review hints at stronger enforcement action down the line

Study of land registry data reveals thousands of new homes have been built in flood prone areas, and could also be denied insurance

Mining giant publishes wide-ranging climate policy update, as it steps up investment in 'energy transition materials'

Emma Howard Boyd concedes flood defences 'cannot prevent flooding everywhere, all of the time' and calls instead for more resilient infrastructure

There have been repeated warnings about the UK's vulnerability to flooding - now the PM must put climate resilience at the centre of his 'levelling-up' agenda