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UK regulator launches corporate climate scenario use analysis project

Asset manager taskforce calls on bondholders to assert their rights

A UK government-initiated taskforce has announced recommendations to strengthen sustainable stewardship in the UK investment industry, including encouraging investors to assert their rights in the bond and private markets.

‘World-leading’ UK Stewardship Code aims for greenwashing crackdown

UK regulator prepares ‘comply or explain’ TCFD rules

The UK’s financial conduct watchdog will consult on new rules to encourage disclosure of climate-related risks by financial firms in early 2020.

UK Financial Reporting Council to set up climate lab

A working group to improve company reporting of information related to climate change is to be established by the UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC).

Big four audit firms under spotlight on climate reporting

The ‘big four’ audit firms have been challenged to explain their failure to flag deficiencies in companies’ climate risk reporting.

People Moves: BlackRock, Macquarie Infrastructure Debt Investment Solutions, AP4, ING, Lightsource BP, European Investment Bank, IIGCC, DNCA Finance and FRC

BlackRock has lost one of the leaders of its push into impact investing, Environmental Finance has learned.

Climate-related disclosure: a new dawn

Numerous developments are helping to drive improvements in corporate reporting of non-financial issues and to raise investor expectations, says Adams Koshy.

Hold AGM vote on compliance with mandatory TCFD, suggests Aviva's Waygood

Aviva Investors has thrown its might behind proposals to make climate disclosures mandatory, adding that shareholders could vote on whether they approve of the reporting.

People Moves - HSBC, SEB, MSCI, MDF, Just Finance

Swedish investment bank SEB has named Marie Baumgarts a head of sustainability.