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  • Tool launched to raise investor awareness on deforestation risks

    29 March 2018

    An online platform to support financial institutions in understanding and mitigating deforestation risks has been launched.

  • Investors wake up to collective engagement clout

    26 March 2018

    Climate-related resolutions at Exxon and Shell garnered the support of the world's largest investors. Now asset managers and owners are massing together to move entire sectors, writes Michael Hurley.

  • Oil and gas transition laggards risk "run for green" in mid-2020s, says report

    22 March 2018

    Oil companies that invest in green assets before 2020 are likely to outperform peers and avoid a risk-intense "rush for green" in the 2020s, according to the results of a 2°C transition 'wargame'.

  • TPI hails watershed moment for investors in oil and gas

    21 March 2018

    A Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) study of disclosures by Shell, Total and Petrobras can "fundamentally change the game" for investors hoping to pressure oil majors into reducing their carbon emissions.

  • $1.6 trillion of energy spending is at risk, Carbon Tracker warns

    08 March 2018

    Energy firms risk wasting $1.6 trillion of expenditure by 2025 if they don't align with the Paris climate goals, posing "a major risk for investors", Carbon Tracker Initiative has warned.

  • Allianz sees dialogue as means to reach 'zero coal'

    16 February 2018

    Underwriter was forced to defend insuring fossil fuels at full-year results

  • Banks' climate progress is 'skin deep'

    15 February 2018

    Banks' attempts to adapt to the risks and the opportunities presented by climate change have been criticised as "often skin deep at best" by a coalition of $2 trillion of investors.

  • Q&A with Christian Thimann, a leading light in sustainable finance

    09 February 2018

    The chair of HLEG and vice-chair of the TCFD shares his views on the reports' key findings and their implications for the insurance sector.

  • Insurers slammed for backing Polish coal plants

    08 February 2018

    Allianz, Munich Re and Generali have been criticised for their involvement in a new coal power plant in Poland, while Axa and Aviva are also under fire for the limitations of their coal divestment policies.

  • Exxon takes encouraging disclosure steps but must go further, investors say

    08 February 2018

    The latest climate-related disclosures by oil giant ExxonMobil fail to go far enough in setting out how climate change is likely to impact its business, say an influential group of investors that led last year's successful shareholder resolution against the company.