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  • Credit Suisse faces first climate resolution

    25 April 2022

    Credit Suisse has encouraged shareholders to vote against a resolution that would require the Swiss bank to annually disclose progress against its climate financing goals.

  • UK Department for Work and Pensions issues draft climate rules

    25 October 2021

    The UK's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has tabled draft rules that would require pension schemes to measure and report on their investment portfolios'...

  • Belgian central bank sued over 'climate failings' in bond buying programme

    13 April 2021

    The National Bank of Belgium (NBB) is being sued by ClientEarth in a 'landmark' legal action to stop the central bank from funding fossil fuel firms through its bond buying programme, amid broader pressure from the environmental law charity on the European Central Bank (ECB) 'quantitative easing' policy.

  • News round-up - 12 February 2021: Nordea, UK ETS, ESG-focused SPAC launch, HSBC ... and more

    12 February 2021

  • HSBC warned by ClientEarth to back climate shareholder resolution

    12 February 2021

  • UK regulator proposes tightened climate-risk disclosure demands

    09 March 2020

    The UK financial services regulator has announced it is considering new climate-related disclosure requirements for most of the major firms listed in the country, despite disappointment from campaigners that its proposals were not mandatory.

  • PRI to study ‘fundamental legal questions’ on impact investing

    28 November 2019

    ‘Fundamental legal questions’ surrounding impact investing will be the subject of a far-reaching study commissioned by the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).

  • The ESG data files, part six: TCFD and the challenge of looking forward

    18 November 2019

    Requests for strategic information about the risks and opportunities posed by climate change have proved a step too far for many. Joe Walsh and Peter Cripps report

  • Integrate climate risk now, insurers told

    16 September 2019

    Insurers should start integrating climate risk into their management and business operations now, and not wait for the perfect tools, according to a report from the Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) and UK charity ShareAction.

  • People Moves: Citi, BlackRock, ClientEarth

    02 August 2019

    Eckhart retires from Citi, O'Flynn appointed BAI Head of Sustainable Investing and more