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'Significant momentum': Support for climate risk reporting surges, but action remains thin
'Significant momentum': Support for climate risk reporting surges, but action remains thin

Asset managers continue to provide an incomplete picture to investors about the risk posed to their investments by climate change, TCFD report warns

  • Investment
  • 29 October 2020
Why demand for consumer goods continues to drive deforestation
Why demand for consumer goods continues to drive deforestation

Voluntary industry commitments in consumer goods sector have struggled to make a dent in deforestation rates, CDP research suggests, furthering the case for regulatory action

  • Risk
  • 28 October 2020
Investors urge major US polluters to clean up lobbying activities
Investors urge major US polluters to clean up lobbying activities

Climate Action 100+ investors write to 47 major US companies calling on them to ensure advocacy work aligns with the climate goals of the Paris Agreement

  • Investment
  • 26 October 2020
Agents of sustainable change: How investors expect companies to be socially aware
Agents of sustainable change: How investors expect companies to be socially aware

Our Global Investor Study 2020 reveals investor and consumer views on company responsibility for tackling climate change, writes Schroders' Vicki Owen

  • Investment
  • 22 October 2020
Met Office warns UK to prepare for more weather extremes
Met Office warns UK to prepare for more weather extremes

New projections point to record breaking heat and rainfall in the coming years posing costly challenges for health and infrastructure

  • Climate change
  • 22 October 2020
PwC: Less than a third of UK banks have net zero targets in place
PwC: Less than a third of UK banks have net zero targets in place

Major new study from consultancy giant reveals UK banks are more engaged with climate risks than ever before, but decarbonisation plans remain underpowered

  • Investment
  • 21 October 2020
Net Zero Festival: Physical climate risk - how can business make a difference?
Net Zero Festival: Physical climate risk - how can business make a difference?

VIDEO: McKinsey & Company's Alastair Hamilton shares insights from the management consulting giant's work on physical climate risk, and what companies can do to address these risks

  • Risk
  • 20 October 2020
BT Pension Scheme: Safeguarding our portfolios and the planet from climate change
BT Pension Scheme: Safeguarding our portfolios and the planet from climate change

Morten Nilsson explains why the BTPS is aiming to be net zero on carbon emissions by 2035, and how it plans to get there

  • Investment
  • 19 October 2020
Report: UK Export Finance could create 42,000 jobs if it dumps fossil fuels for clean energy
Report: UK Export Finance could create 42,000 jobs if it dumps fossil fuels for clean energy

Government export finance agency's ongoing support of oil and gas projects overseas is harming the environment, tarnishing the UK’s reputation as a climate leader, and limiting its potential to create jobs, according to a new analysis published today...

  • Policy
  • 15 October 2020
'The future isn't something that just happens to us': Why 2021 marks a crucial crossroads for sustainability
'The future isn't something that just happens to us': Why 2021 marks a crucial crossroads for sustainability

Business leaders, investors and policymakers have a narrow 6-18 month window to set a path to net zero or a breakdown of the planet's biosphere, according to Forum to the Future

  • Management
  • 14 October 2020
Adapting to 4C of global warming
Adapting to 4C of global warming

Emma Howard Boyd's speech to the Committee on Climate Change's Adapting to 3C+ of global warming conference

  • Risk
  • 14 October 2020
'Deeply concerned': Accountants voice escalating environmental fears
'Deeply concerned': Accountants voice escalating environmental fears

Global survey of accountants reveals widespread disquiet at on-going failure to properly track environmental and social impacts

  • Management
  • 14 October 2020
'Covid-19 has made risk everybody's business': Agencies urge world leaders to beef up extreme weather warning systems
'Covid-19 has made risk everybody's business': Agencies urge world leaders to beef up extreme weather warning systems

UN-backed report calls on policymakers to dramatically increase funding for early warning systems that can boost nations' resilience to extreme weather events in response to rising threat from extreme storms, droughts, floods, and wildfires

  • Risk
  • 13 October 2020
Royal Mail, Tesla, Next, and Rio Tinto among hundreds of companies urged by investors to set science-based climate goals
Royal Mail, Tesla, Next, and Rio Tinto among hundreds of companies urged by investors to set science-based climate goals

More than 1,800 companies have been asked to set science-based climate targets thanks to a major new push from 137 global investors

  • Investment
  • 13 October 2020
ESG considerations mount at fixed income asset managers, industry survey finds
ESG considerations mount at fixed income asset managers, industry survey finds

Annual survey of asset managers by Russell Investments points to increasing focus and concern over climate risk

  • Investment
  • 12 October 2020
Report: Climate risk increases cost of sovereign borrowing
Report: Climate risk increases cost of sovereign borrowing

New research highlights relationship between climate risk and sovereign risk, and outlines steps governments can take to avoid 'ever-worsening' spiral of climate vulnerability and unsustainable debt burdens

  • Investment
  • 12 October 2020
Stranded assets: Report warns US oil majors are lagging European rivals in clean energy transition
Stranded assets: Report warns US oil majors are lagging European rivals in clean energy transition

Latest study from Carbon Tracker shows that while US firms are particularly exposed, all oil and gas firms would face massive stranded asset risk in the event of a successful energy transition

  • Energy
  • 09 October 2020
Study: Fertiliser use threatens global climate goals as nitrous oxide emissions soar
Study: Fertiliser use threatens global climate goals as nitrous oxide emissions soar

Scientists urge reform of global food production system after study shows N2O levels - emitted largely by farming fertiliser - have soared over past two decades

  • Climate change
  • 07 October 2020
How the economic fallout from climate change could reach $31tr a year
How the economic fallout from climate change could reach $31tr a year

CDP publishes major new report detailing how the economic fallout from the climate crisis is only just starting to build

  • Science
  • 05 October 2020
If the UK wants economic resilience, strong climate disclosure rules are crucial
If the UK wants economic resilience, strong climate disclosure rules are crucial

The UK Financial Conduct Authority's climate risk reporting proposals for companies are not nearly strong enough, argues ClientEarth's Daniel Wiseman

  • Risk
  • 29 September 2020
Biodiversity recovery: Boris Johnson pledges to protect 30 per cent of UK land by 2030
Biodiversity recovery: Boris Johnson pledges to protect 30 per cent of UK land by 2030

Prime Minister sets out fresh nature recovery targets for UK as he joins leaders of Germany, France, Bangladesh, and Mexico in backing Leaders Pledge for Nature, a 10-point plan geared at reversing global nature loss

  • Biodiversity
  • 28 September 2020
McDonald's and McCain offer climate resilience funding for potato farmers
McDonald's and McCain offer climate resilience funding for potato farmers

Fast food giant working with McCain and Prince's Countryside Trust to help farmers improve soil health and boost resilience to climate change and Brexit

  • BusinessGreen
  • 25 September 2020
Climate campaigners launch internet tool to 'block out' fossil fuel firms
Climate campaigners launch internet tool to 'block out' fossil fuel firms

'Block Fossils Out' aims to block users from accessing websites and social media accounts belonging to firms which produce or fund coal, gas and oil

  • Energy
  • 23 September 2020
Majority of UK's biggest firms lack net zero strategies, report finds
Majority of UK's biggest firms lack net zero strategies, report finds

Analysis of FTSE 100 companies finds just 16 per cent have realistic decarbonisation strategies in place, yet 45 per cent are targeting net zero emissions

  • BusinessGreen
  • 23 September 2020
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