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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
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
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
The Boy Who Cried Wolf: Redux
The real message from the parable of the boy who cried wolf is that there was a wolf
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
'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
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
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
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
'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
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
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
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
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
'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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
'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
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
'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
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