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News round-up: BNP Paribas, CDP and USS Invest

BNP Paribas Asset Management and CDP to expand biodiversity reporting

The soufflé of common sense on climate change

With science, policy and capital coming together to help combat warming, we must all be early adoptors, argues Paula DiPerna

CDP: 80% rise in carbon accounting for largest corporates

BlackRock, Vanguard among 43 new Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative members

1% of companies demonstrate 'best practice' on deforestation action, says CDP

Asset owner climate valuation framework 'could be used by' IFRS

IFRS Foundation sets out 'strategic direction' for global sustainability standards

The trustees of the IFRS Foundation have said a prototype climate-related disclosure standard devised last year could be used as the basis for a proposed global sustainability reporting regime, and said they plan to begin work with a group of sustainability-related reporting organisations.

Physical climate risk disclosure initiatives still lacking, says WRI

Climate risk disclosure initiatives are still lacking in their coverage of several key physical risks, according to a report by the World Resources Institute (WRI), resulting in firms not being fully equipped to assess their exposure to these hazards.

TCFD advised to abandon implied temperature rise metric

The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) secretariat should not include in its list of recommended disclosures estimates of the 'climate warming potential' of assets, according to the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI).