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  • European companies 'could face wider ESG risks' avoiding Russian minerals

    03 August 2022

  • Verisk launches new Sovereign ESG Ratings

    17 February 2022

    Data analytics provider Verisk Maplecroft has launched sovereign environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings,...

  • GRESB launches climate risk platform

    03 July 2020

    The Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) is to launch a platform assessing real estate and infrastructure's exposure to physical climate risk.

  • The ESG data files, part seven, continued: Real estate - Social and governance data

    03 January 2020

    The market for data on the social impacts of investments in real estate is growing rapidly, writes Christopher Marchant

  • ESG data files - part seven, continued: Real estate and resilience

    02 January 2020

    Investors are striving to get a handle on physical climate risks, but the data is still under construction, writes Christopher Marchant

  • GRESB and Verisk Maplecroft launch climate risk scorecard

    13 November 2019

    Real estate sustainability assessor GRESB and risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft have collaborated to create a Climate Risk & Resilience Scorecard.

  • Renewables projects can contain widespread human rights concerns, say analysts

    16 October 2019

    British risk analysis firm Verisk Maplecroft has identified a range of labour rights issues in solar and biofuel energy supply chains 'flying under the radar'.

  • 'Prepare for abrupt repricing’ of climate risks in sovereign bonds

    24 May 2019

    Climate risk is underestimated as a risk factor by investors in sovereign bonds, who should prepare for the possibility of “an eventual abrupt repricing of environmental risks, including climate risks”, according to the findings of a major study.

  • ‘Heat stress’ will hit Asian and African economies hard by 2045, say analysts

    03 August 2018

    The economic cost of climate change is likely to be felt most acutely over the next 30 years in Africa and South East Asia, according to risk analysis firm Verisk Maplecroft.

  • Singapore, Germany and Italy tipped as likely green bond issuers

    20 June 2018

    Verisk Maplecroft has tipped Singapore as the country most likely to be the next to enter the sovereign green bond market.