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  • Chinese banks not shifting away from coal, says Sustainable Fitch

    04 April 2023

    Despite a movement into 'cleaner' assets, Chinese banks have yet to shift away from coal, which risks leaving many with stranded assets, Sustainable Fitch has said.

  • Climate Action 100+ updates net-zero benchmark

    30 March 2023

    Climate Action 100+ (CA100+) has updated its benchmark tool for helping investors to assess the decarbonisation action of companies.

  • Japan's transition finance agenda is derailing decarbonisation in Southeast Asia

    29 March 2023

    Japan treats transition finance as a way to support industrial companies that are locked into thermal power technologies, argues Kurt Metzger

  • Insurers' 'failed' climate engagement strategy draws new demands from campaigners

    28 March 2023

    Insurers' climate engagement strategies are failing as major oil and gas producers show no sign of adopting credible net-zero pathways, according to climate campaigners.

  • The ISO's Net Zero Guidelines

    24 March 2023

    The guidelines can provide a common global basis for sound and credible net zero action, providing investors with a robust reference point to form their strategy, writes Emily Faint

  • Phoenix estimates 20% of equity and credit assets exposed to high transition risks

    15 March 2023

    Some 20% of Phoenix's listed equity and credit portfolios are exposed to sectors at high risk in the transition to a net-zero economy, such as energy, utilities, industrials and materials.

  • Aviva completes divestment of £2.5bn in fossil fuel companies

    14 March 2023

    Aviva has divested almost all its £2.5 billion ($3 billion) exposure to fossil fuel companies on its "Stoplist" of firms with weak ambitions to reduce their climate impact.

  • Measuring the financial consequences of climate transition

    13 March 2023

    Joseph Noss looks at why backward-looking emissions reporting provides no guarantee of reducing exposure to transition risk

  • Zurich excludes five fossil-fuel companies with non-credible transition plans

    13 March 2023

    Zurich has excluded five companies from its investment and underwriting activities as it no longer considered their "progress against transition plans to be credible".

  • 'Capex must be a focus of energy transition engagement', investors told

    08 March 2023

    Asset managers grappling with the energy transition have been urged to prioritise engaging on companies' capital expenditure (capex) plans.