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Investors urged to join sovereign climate performance assessment project

Investors have been urged to get involved in a project to develop an assessment framework for the carbon performance of sovereigns, currently backed by groups including the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) and Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI).

CA100+ hails landmark GE vote on net zero benchmark

General Electric shareholders have unanimously supported a climate-related vote that asks the multinational conglomerate to provide information on how it will align with the recently launched Climate Action 100+ (CA100+) net-zero benchmark.

Your top investment questions about biodiversity, answered

As the foundation that so many industries are built on, we can no longer afford to ignore how much biodiversity hangs in the balance, says Hugh W. Brown Jr

US climate risk disclosure bill reintroduced

News round-up: US climate targets, US Solar Fund, Columbia Threadneedle, FTSE Russell, and more

Investors support US federal climate target in letter to President Biden

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

CA100+ benchmark shows net zero ambitions still have long way to go

$8trn investors back IIGCC 'Net Zero Investment Framework' launch

US regulator banking rule seeks to 'prop up' fossil fuel financing

The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has been accused of staging a "last ditch" attempt to prop up financing for fossil fuel through its "fair access" rule for banks, amid a rising tide of lenders announcing plans to phase-out such funding.