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Covid and climate: Annual Davos report raises alarm over escalating, intertwined risks facing the global economy
Covid and climate: Annual Davos report raises alarm over escalating, intertwined risks facing the global economy

A pair of new reports on global economic risks and water shortages highlight the urgent need for coordinated action to tackle interlinked and worsening threats to global stability

  • Policy
  • 20 January 2021
Barclays' UK retirement fund to screen for climate risk in £1.3bn growth portfolio
Barclays' UK retirement fund to screen for climate risk in £1.3bn growth portfolio

Climate risk and ESG factors to be integrated into £1.3bn diversified growth portfolio used for Barclays UKRF defined contribution pension scheme

  • Investment
  • 14 January 2021
Natural disaster damages hit $210bn worldwide in 2020, Munich Re estimates
Natural disaster damages hit $210bn worldwide in 2020, Munich Re estimates

Insurance giant warns 'it is time to act' in order to curb growing costs of climate change

  • Risk
  • 08 January 2021
The Boy Who Cried Wolf: Redux
The Boy Who Cried Wolf: Redux

The real message from the parable of the boy who cried wolf is that there was a wolf

  • 07 January 2021
Exxon for the first time reveals CO2 impact of oil and gas products
Exxon for the first time reveals CO2 impact of oil and gas products

US oil major insists it has 'a well-established and rigorous' climate risk oversight process in place

  • Energy
  • 07 January 2021
'Climate change's fingerprints': Report highlights growing link between climate change and weather extremes
'Climate change's fingerprints': Report highlights growing link between climate change and weather extremes

New analysis summarising latest thinking on climate attribution, reveals increasingly clear evidence climate change is leading to increased extreme weather risks

  • Climate change
  • 11 December 2020
Watchdog orders UK firms to improve climate accounting in 2021
Watchdog orders UK firms to improve climate accounting in 2021

Companies are routinely 'not meeting investor needs' on climate and environmental data in annual reports, Financial Reporting Council warns

  • Investment
  • 13 November 2020
CDP: Almost 10,000 companies worldwide disclosed environmental data in 2020
CDP: Almost 10,000 companies worldwide disclosed environmental data in 2020

Non-profit hails record year for climate, deforestation, and water risk reporting, as investor-backed group eyes plans to cover land and ocean data

  • Risk
  • 10 November 2020
Rishi Sunak: UK to issue first green bond and require firms to disclose climate risk
Rishi Sunak: UK to issue first green bond and require firms to disclose climate risk

Chancellor unveils raft of green finance plans, including green taxonomy proposals and mandatory climate risk disclosure rules for listed companies

  • Investment
  • 09 November 2020
'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
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
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
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
'What's your strategy for net zero?': Mark Carney ushers in new era for MP environment group
'What's your strategy for net zero?': Mark Carney ushers in new era for MP environment group

Former Bank of England Governor addresses relaunch of the All Party Parliamentary Group for the Environment, for which Green Alliance is to be secretariat

  • Politics
  • 17 September 2020
Climate risk: Amazon, Allianz, Microsoft, and S&P Global join open data initiative
Climate risk: Amazon, Allianz, Microsoft, and S&P Global join open data initiative

Linux Foundation spearheads new drive to harness AI and open source data to combat climate risk

  • Risk
  • 02 September 2020
Hundreds of UK pension schemes to fall under climate risk reporting rules
Hundreds of UK pension schemes to fall under climate risk reporting rules

Pension schemes holding more than £1bn of assets will be required to publicly disclose climate risk in their portfolios by 2023 or face penalties

  • Investment
  • 26 August 2020
Double materiality: Why nature risk and climate risk are two sides of the same coin
Double materiality: Why nature risk and climate risk are two sides of the same coin

Current regulation and risk disclosure efforts are insufficient for tackling the varying and complex risks posed by nature loss and climate change, UCL research argues

  • Investment
  • 26 August 2020
Poll: Most Europeans view climate change as more pressing issue than pandemic
Poll: Most Europeans view climate change as more pressing issue than pandemic

Of seven counties surveyed by Vattenfall, however, UK was the only outlier, where residents now view epidemics as a bigger threat than the climate crisis

  • Climate change
  • 19 August 2020
Bank of America to disclose climate impact of its lending and investments
Bank of America to disclose climate impact of its lending and investments

Investment bank joins growing number of financial institutions as a member of the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials

  • Investment
  • 31 July 2020
Citi to disclose loan portfolio CO2 as it pledges $250bn green spending blitz
Citi to disclose loan portfolio CO2 as it pledges $250bn green spending blitz

Bank to report and disclose the emissions tied to its lending portfolios as it joins Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF)

  • Investment
  • 30 July 2020
'Significant step': Nest targets net zero pension portfolio by 2050
'Significant step': Nest targets net zero pension portfolio by 2050

Auto-enrolment pension scheme also promises to fully divest from thermal coal, oil sands and Arctic drilling by 2025

  • Investment
  • 28 July 2020
Global Briefing: Democrats eye 2050 net zero goal for US
Global Briefing: Democrats eye 2050 net zero goal for US

Plus Indian Railways aim for net zero, Norway CCS plans, and all the top green business news from around the world this week

  • Rail
  • 24 July 2020
'We don't want to go through this again': Nature protection critical to preventing pandemics, study finds
'We don't want to go through this again': Nature protection critical to preventing pandemics, study finds

Combatting deforestation and wildlife trade could avoid costing the planet trillions of dollars in economic disruption, Conservation International estimates

  • Biodiversity
  • 23 July 2020
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