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  • Actuaries warn of 'catastrophic' impacts linked to climate and nature crises

    30 April 2026

    Vulnerabilities shown by the US war with Iran demonstrate how an already fragile global food system is endangered by rising climate and nature perils, risking "catastrophic impacts for the financial system and for society as a whole", actuaries warned.

  • New modelling tool to help allocate capital amid the transition

    01 April 2026

    A data provider has launched a first of its kind climate risk assessment designed to help steer capital allocation decisions.

  • Existing models for assessing physical climate risk are not working, study finds

    05 February 2026

    Regulators should do more to ensure that climate risk assessment is embedded within the financial risk assessment processes of investors and central banks, as many "grossly underestimate" the impact of physical risk, a new study has found.

  • Actuaries warn of 'planetary insolvency' without immediate climate policy action

    14 January 2026

    The risk that the planet could warm faster than most current models assume could undermine the global financial system and lead to "planetary insolvency".

  • COP29: Land use emissions still 'substantial' despite decline

    13 November 2024

    Land use emissions are still "substantial", despite their steady decline, academics have said, warning that deforestation continues to play a major role.

  • USS unveils own climate scenarios to address inadequacies in widely used models

    07 September 2023

    UK pension fund USS has published four climate scenarios that it says "better reflect the real-world risks and opportunities that frame our investment decision-making over the short- and medium-term", as it criticised widely-used models as "inadequate".

  • Carbon capture and offsets are 'fake solutions'

    22 September 2022

    Investors must help businesses prepare for net-zero world and the renewable energy take-over, instead of relying on "fake solutions" such as carbon capture and storage (CCS) or carbon offsets, an Environmental Finance webinar heard.