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Green recovery or bust? Six green things we learnt from the Budget (and a lot of things we didn't)
Green recovery or bust? Six green things we learnt from the Budget (and a lot of things we didn't)

The Chancellor Rishi Sunak served up a host of green infrastructure and financial measures, but has kicked many key issues down the road

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  • 04 March 2021
Aviva Investors threatens to divest from firms that fail climate tests
Aviva Investors threatens to divest from firms that fail climate tests

Asset manager steps up climate stewardship as it writes to 30 high-carbon companies in its portfolio to urge them to take action

  • Investment
  • 01 February 2021
'Moral hazard': MPs urge Bank of England to clean up dirty investments ahead of COP26
'Moral hazard': MPs urge Bank of England to clean up dirty investments ahead of COP26

Environmental Audit Committee calls on central bank to align its corporate bond purchasing programme with global climate goals

  • Policy
  • 24 January 2021
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
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

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  • 23 September 2020
Christine Lagarde hints at green bond push from the ECB
Christine Lagarde hints at green bond push from the ECB

'I have children, I have grandchildren. I just don't want to face those beautiful eyes, asking me and others: 'What have you done?''

  • Investment
  • 08 July 2020
Bank of England to consider incorporating climate factors in corporate bond portfolio
Bank of England to consider incorporating climate factors in corporate bond portfolio

Governor Andrew Bailey reiterates central bank's 'strong commitment' to net zero as he seeks to fend off criticism from green groups

  • Risk
  • 03 July 2020
Bank of England admits bond portfolio out of step with Paris climate goals
Bank of England admits bond portfolio out of step with Paris climate goals

Central bank publishes first ever climate risk assessment revealing non-gilt holdings aligned with whopping 3.5C global warming scenario

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  • 19 June 2020
UK firms worth £2.3tr to face new climate risk disclosure rules
UK firms worth £2.3tr to face new climate risk disclosure rules

Financial Conduct Authority proposals would see 480 large UK companies having to disclose risks posed by climate change and the net zero transition - or to explain why they are failing to do so

  • Investment
  • 09 March 2020
'Time to pull the plug': Is pressure on coal-investing banks starting to deliver results?
'Time to pull the plug': Is pressure on coal-investing banks starting to deliver results?

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

  • Investment
  • 02 March 2020
COP26 President Alok Sharma: 'Our choices will make or break the zero-carbon economy'
COP26 President Alok Sharma: 'Our choices will make or break the zero-carbon economy'

Business Secretary and Glasgow summit President Alok Sharma's speech at the launch of the COP26 Private Finance Agenda in London

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  • 27 February 2020
Mark Carney handed COP26 climate finance role
Mark Carney handed COP26 climate finance role

Outgoing Bank of England Governor to advise Prime Minister on greening the global financial system as UK steps up preparation to co-host crucial UN summit

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  • 16 January 2020
'Pioneering exercise': New Bank of England Governor to oversee climate stress-test
'Pioneering exercise': New Bank of England Governor to oversee climate stress-test

Andrew Bailey will take over at helm of UK's central bank in March, replacing Mark Carney who has been instrumental in pushing for climate risk transparency

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  • 20 December 2019
Government under fire for 'reneging' on green finance pledge
Government under fire for 'reneging' on green finance pledge

Chancellor fails to include climate change remit in guidance to UK financial regulators, in apparent backtrack on government pledge made this summer

  • Investment
  • 07 November 2019
Come clean on climate risk or face mandatory disclosure rules, Carney tells business
Come clean on climate risk or face mandatory disclosure rules, Carney tells business

Bank of England governor warns firms have two years to improve their reporting on climate risk or regulators will impose rules

  • Investment
  • 09 October 2019
We need a Green Bank of England
We need a Green Bank of England

We should empower our central bank to go further in steering capital flows towards the low-carbon economy, argues Positive Money's executive director Fran Boait

  • Policy
  • 19 August 2019
Climate risk posed by oil, gas and coal leaves energy investors on shaky ground
Climate risk posed by oil, gas and coal leaves energy investors on shaky ground

Analysis by both Carbon Tracker and the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis highlight the growing threat posed to investors by their exposure to high-carbon business models

  • Investment
  • 02 August 2019
Capitalism is part of solution to climate crisis, says Mark Carney
Capitalism is part of solution to climate crisis, says Mark Carney

Bank of England governor says firms that ignore crisis 'will go bankrupt without question'

  • Risk
  • 01 August 2019
Insurers disclosing climate risk need to remember their customers
Insurers disclosing climate risk need to remember their customers

Extending climate risk disclosure to customers could yield benefits for both insurers and, argue LSE's Swenja Surminski and Sam Unsworth

  • Risk
  • 01 August 2019
Climate risks and fiscal blind spots
Climate risks and fiscal blind spots

The focus may have been on its Brexit projections, but as Madeleine Cuff argues the OBR's highlighting of climate risks demands attention from businesses and policymakers

  • Risk
  • 19 July 2019
Radically unradical?
Radically unradical?

John McDonnell's green finance proposals are closer to mainstream thinking than many of his critics would have you think

  • Politics
  • 25 June 2019
Labour plots 'new banking ecosystem' to tackle climate emergency
Labour plots 'new banking ecosystem' to tackle climate emergency

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell sets out plans to strengthen Bank of England toolkit to tackle climate risk and spur billions of green investment

  • Policy
  • 24 June 2019
'Unprecedented risks': Bank of England will stress-test UK financial system for climate-related risks
'Unprecedented risks': Bank of England will stress-test UK financial system for climate-related risks

Bank of England governor March Carney says test should spur firms to "develop cutting-edge risk management" strategies to manage climate risk

  • Policy
  • 21 June 2019
Bank of England issues climate risk guidance to 'unlock action' from insurers
Bank of England issues climate risk guidance to 'unlock action' from insurers

Developed by industry and regulators, aim is to help insurers draw up management approaches to climate risk

  • Risk
  • 23 May 2019
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