'Flying blind': Investors are underestimating their exposure to climate lawsuits, study warns

Cecilia Keating
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'Flying blind': Investors are underestimating their exposure to climate lawsuits, study warns

Current frameworks for measuring climate-related financial risk are failing to properly assess litigation risks, researchers warn

Investors and regulators around the world are failing to properly assess companies' exposure to climate litigation threats, in an oversight that threatens to trigger further instability across the global...

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