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  • Trump executive order takes 'sledgehammer' to US climate action

    29 March 2017

    US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order cancelling the Clean Power Plan (CPP) – the flagship climate policy of his predecessor – in a move described "taking a sledgehammer to US climate action".

  • Stranded assets are real threat to industry - Lloyd's

    22 March 2017

    Insurance companies have been warned again about the risk of their assets becoming 'stranded' in the transition to a low-carbon economy, this time by Lloyd's of London.

  • Comment: Stranded assets: it's time to stop forecasting and start scenario planning

    02 March 2017

    There are five potential strategies oil and gas companies can adopt to the transition to a low-carbon economy, argues Ingrid Holmes

  • NEST to battle climate change with default strategy

    24 February 2017

    The UK's national workplace pension provider the National Employee Saving Trust (NEST), will shift part of its default strategy into a newly created "climate-aligned" fund.

  • CDP and French Government to assess low-carbon transition readiness

    22 February 2017

    CDP – formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project – and the French government have partnered in a new initiative to assess company readiness for the transition to a low-carbon economy.

  • Task Force issues specific guidance for the financial sector

    14 December 2016

    A key aim of the FSB Task Force is to encourage disclosures that "would enable stakeholders to understand better the concentrations of carbon-related assets in the financial sector and the financial system's exposures to climate-related risks."

  • TCFD's long-awaited report revealed

    14 December 2016

    After a year of intensive work, the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) today laid out its eagerly-awaited recommendations designed to help standardise and mainstream considerations about the impacts of climate change on companies.

  • Organisations should use existing climate scenario analysis or develop their own, says TCFD

    14 December 2016

    Companies should use a range of existing, publicly-available climate-related scenario analysis or develop their own in order to assess the risks posed to their business by climate change, according to the Financial Stability Board (FSB) Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).

  • Four US oil majors face shareholder resolutions on climate lobbying

    30 November 2016

    Four US oil majors are to be hit by shareholder resolutions calling on them to disclose their anti-climate change lobbying activities, Environmental Finance can reveal.

  • Trinity College joins growing list of universities to divest

    28 November 2016

    Trinity College Dublin (TCD) has become latest university foundation to divest from fossil fuels.