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  • 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.

  • Most investors lack understanding of ESG impact, says RBC GAM

    17 November 2016

    The financial impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors is not understood by most investors, according to RBC Global Asset Management (GAM).

  • BNP Paribas IP provides carbon footprint of nearly 100 of its funds

    14 November 2016

    BNP Paribas Investment Partners (IP) has increased the number of funds it measures the carbon footprint of to nearly 100.

  • Investors with €5trn of assets call for halt to arctic oil drilling

    07 November 2016

    A group of institutional investors, representing €5 trillion ($5.52 trillion) of assets under management, have called for a "permanent moratorium" on arctic oil drilling.

  • Aviva earmarks two coal companies for divestment

    04 November 2016

    Aviva has earmarked two coal companies for "potential divestment", and is considering ditching eight others that are not responding to its requests for engagement.

  • Free tool launched for measuring a fund's carbon footprint

    13 October 2016

    A free online tool that measures the carbon intensity of investment funds, has been launched by US-based NGO As You Sow.