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  • NZAOA has 'low' climate voting transparency

    09 December 2021

    Several members of the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) lack transparency when it comes to their proxy votes cast on climate-related proposals, academics have said.

  • $10trn asset owner alliance urges blended climate finance push

    29 November 2021

    The UN-convened Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) has urged development finance institutions (DFIs) to better use public-private finance partnerships...

  • Gas, nuclear and the taxonomy: fuelling controversy

    19 November 2021

    The EU is preparing to reveal its decision on whether to include nuclear and gas in its sustainability taxonomy. Michael Hurley presents the state of play

  • NZAOA protocol leaves 'coal loophole' & misaligned with climate science, say NGOs

    01 November 2021
  • UN Secretary General tells insurers to go 'net zero'

    09 June 2021

    With $35 trillion of assets under management the insurance sector plays a key role...

  • Forward-looking metrics need improved methodologies, says TCFD consultation

    16 March 2021

    Results from a Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) consultation have underlined the challenges facing forward-looking metrics - yet most respondents believe they could yet be useful if their methodologies are improved.

  • TCFD 'implied temperature rise' metric gets Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance backing

    12 February 2021

    An alliance of investors with more than $5 trillion in combined assets under management has told the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) secretariat that it 'fully supports' development of a measure of the 'implied temperature rise' of assets.