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Climate and SDGs to be focus of French pension fund's new SRI strategy
28 May 2018Climate change is “the biggest risk” to the €36.4 billion ($44 billion) FRR pension fund in coming years, Salwa Boussoukaya-Nasr, chief investment officer of the pension fund, tells Michael Hurley.
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World's top insurers stalling on climate change drive
25 May 2018While insurers are increasingly aware of environmental risks which might impact both sides of their balance sheet, new research has found that their investment strategies are not in line with the Paris Agreement. The research was published the same week Royal Dutch Shell held its AGM and shareholders, including some large insurers, were asked to vote on a climate resolution. Did they stand up to the test? Paul Walsh and Vincent Huck report
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TCFD webinar: Banks' response to climate risk is just beginning
18 May 2018Banks are in "the early days" of understanding and addressing the climate risks in their portfolios, a webinar hosted by Environmental Finance heard.
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Aviva under fire for taking only "baby steps" to move away from coal
11 May 2018Aviva has become the latest insurer slammed by the Unfriend Coal network, a coalition of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that targets insurers facilitating fossil fuel extraction, for investing in the coal sector.
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Allianz to walk away from coal by 2040
04 May 2018The world’s biggest insurer, Allianz, said it will turn its back on coal by 2040, both in its underwriting and investment arms.
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Rio Tinto shareholders in largest ever vote for climate resolution
03 May 2018Investors with a combined $4 billion of shares in Rio Tinto have recorded the largest vote for a climate change-related resolution, without board support, in Australian corporate history.
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The beginning of the end for coal investment and underwriting
30 April 2018Insurers have made efforts to disengage themselves from the coal industry on both sides of the balance sheet, but climate activists say they could do more. Cintia Cheong and Nick Roumpis examine the latest developments
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Actiam backs third successive Shell climate resolution
27 April 2018Dutch asset manager Actiam criticised Shell for not doing enough to change its business strategy as it threw its weight behind a third successive climate-related shareholder resolution with the company.
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TCFD guidance for banks launched
26 April 2018Guidance was today launched to help banks assess and report the 'transition risks' in their loan books, as recommended by the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
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Voting begins for EF's Deals of the Year awards
25 April 2018A new category of 'Loan of the Year' has been added to Environmental Finance Deals of the Year awards.