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  • Investors develop guidance on meeting TCFD recommendations

    12 April 2017

    Advice on how institutional investors should disclose the impact of climate change on their portfolios has been issued by a group of asset owners and managers from Asia and Australia.

  • Voting begins for EF's Deals of the Year awards

    12 April 2017

    Nominations are now being accepted for the tenth annual Environmental Finance Deals of the Year awards.

  • Insurers' strategic responses to climate change

    11 April 2017

    The third and final part of this series of features about the insurance sector looks at group level responses to climate change. Peter Cripps reports

  • TCFD: A full disclosure

    20 March 2017

    Will the Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) report change the landscape for investors, asks Hamza Ali

  • Investors with assets worth over £2trn back transition to low-carbon economy

    11 January 2017

    Eighteen institutional investors with assets totalling £2.07 trillion ($2.6 trillion) have launched an initiative to support the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) call for investors to assess whether their portfolio companies are positioning themselves to transition to a low-carbon economy.

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • FSB reveals big hitters behind new climate change task force

    22 January 2016

    The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has named the members of its new climate change working group.