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  • GRI teams up with IIRC on integrated reporting

    16 January 2017

    The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) have teamed-up, in a move designed to harmonise their sustainable reporting models.

  • Green bonds critical to success of Paris Agreement, says HSBC

    09 January 2017

    Continued growth of the green bond market "is a key pillar for the success of Paris Agreement implementation", say HSBC analysts in a new report.

  • GRI appoints new chief executive

    20 December 2016

    GRI, formerly known as the Global Reporting Initiative, has appointed Timothy Mohin as its new chief executive.

  • Market will decide what climate scenarios to use, says Bloomberg

    15 December 2016

    It is up for the market to decide how best to implement the Financial Stability Board's (FSB) Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations and which climate-related scenario to deploy, said Michael Bloomberg, chairman of the report.

  • 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).

  • TCFD's four major disclosure recommendations revealed

    09 December 2016

    Details of the four major disclosure recommendations from Financial Stability Board's (FSB) Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) have emerged ahead of the report's launch next week.

  • FSB Taskforce will require companies to perform 2°C scenario analysis

    02 November 2016

    The Financial Stability Board (FSB) Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures is to recommend that companies reveal how they will be affected by policies introduced to restrict global warming to no more than 2oC.

  • Green finance - at a tipping point?

    24 October 2016

    Eric Usher, head of the UNEP Finance Initiative, tells Graham Cooper about the challenges facing the organisation as it prepares to celebrate its 25th anniversary.

  • The process of integrating the environment and finance has only just begun

    19 October 2016

    The 'green economy' is a hot topic at the moment. It moved up the agenda thanks to the game-changing Paris climate agreement. And momentum continued to grow this year as a result of the importance that the G20 has placed on 'green finance'.