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  • Covid-19 pandemic must not distract from fight against climate change, says investor group

    28 September 2020

    International businesses and world leaders should 'resist the trap' of setting aside issues relating to climate change to focus only on the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment (CCRI).

  • Mitigating climate risk needs insurance regulators 'to get tough'

    28 September 2020

    Insurance regulators have been urged to take a hard-line approach for insurers on climate risk management.

  • Cubico refinances solar project with €250m green loan

    11 June 2020

    Cubico Sustainable Investments has achieved financial close on the refinancing of the 50MW Arenales concentrated solar power (CSP) project in Seville, Spain.

  • Insurance, pandemics and climate change

    10 April 2020

    Insurers have long been aware of the risks of a global pandemic, but have failed to act. They mustn't make the same mistake on climate change, Peter Bosshard writes

  • What will 2020 bring for coal insurance?

    15 January 2020

    The year ahead could see new insurers join the industry's shift away from coal, says Peter Bosshard.

  • Members of UK taskforce on greening supply chains announced

    19 July 2019

    The members of the UK's Global Resource Initiative (GRI) taskforce have been revealed, as they met for the first time to discuss how the country can green its international supply chain.

  • ESG data files: part two - non-reported data

    05 July 2019

    What are the uses of, and potential, for non-reported or alternative data sources, asks Peter Cripps

  • Insurers say climate change is now their top risk

    08 April 2019

    Climate change has supplanted cyber risk as the top risk for the world's insurers, according to a recent survey.

  • Natural capital finance: more than a mirage?

    08 February 2019

    Bruce Howard highlights new insights into the feasibility of natural capital finance projects in advanced economies such as the UK.

  • Willis Towers Watson pension scheme to shift equities investments to ESG

    31 October 2018

    Willis Towers Watson is to shift £740 million ($944 million) – half of the equities investments in its default master trust scheme – into environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment strategies.