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Investors can use artificial intelligence to help portfolio companies tackle climate-related risks, argues Matt Goldklang

Companies outside the US are increasingly likely to be prosecuted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for misleading or incomplete sustainability-related disclosures - risking making the US regulator the "global police" on ESG, an SEC commissioner has argued.

Chubb's board of directors has said it has no control over its insureds' emissions and no basis to know how any change in its underwriting or investment activity would reduce such emissions.

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (Eiopa) has launched free software in a bid to help bring climate and natural catastrophe modelling to a wider range of users.

Upcoming changes to reporting standards in Hong Kong could enhance sustainability reporting across mainland China, Sustainable Fitch has said.

Only one-fifth of listed companies' decarbonisation targets are aligned with the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement, MSCI said, as it criticised "fuzzy" disclosures lacking crucial information.

The profitability of banks will be put at risk if they continue to ignore nature-related risks, Deutsche Bundesbank's Sabine Mauderer warned,...

The European Council has publicly moved towards agreeing to include mandatory environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures for all labelled sustainable bonds into EU bond prospectus rules,...

Reliance on 'meaningless' ESG ratings could jeopardise the credibility of sustainable finance, Stewart Investors tells Genevieve Redgrave

The biodiversity 'footprint' tool launched by technology platform Clarity AI was inspired by French regulation, an executive at the company has said.