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Insurers to get global standard for measuring 'insured emissions'

Insurers are to get "the first global standard to measure and disclose insured greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions" as a result of an industry collaboration.

Climate risk means property cat losses could rise 120% by 2040

Climate risk could hike insured property catastrophe losses by 90 to 120% by 2040 in key markets such as China, the UK, France and Germany, according to Swiss Re.

Ceres demands six high-emitting sectors act on climate by 2030

Ceres has launched an initiative to get North American companies in banking, electricity, oil and gas, food, steel and transportation to set and achieve decarbonisation targets by 2030.

Stand-alone ESG supervision supports better company sustainability performance

Companies with dedicated environmental, social and governance (ESG) committees tend to outperform on sustainability those with combined board oversight...

One third of investors fail updated UK stewardship standards

One third of investor applicants (64 out of 189) have failed to meet the stewardship standards of the UK's Financial Reporting Council (FRC)

'Even leading banking practices fail basic climate, biodiversity tests' - ShareAction

Most of Europe's largest banks have targets to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to net zero - but very few banks have taken concrete steps to achieve this and even leading practices in the sector fail "basic" quality tests, according to research by non-profit ShareAction.

Winners of the 2021 Impact Awards revealed

The winners of Environmental Finance's 2021 Impact Awards have been announced.

EU Green Bond Standard will struggle to become global 'gold standard', says Fitch

The EU Green Bond Standard (GBS) could struggle to become the global 'gold standard' without clearer alignment of international 'green' taxonomies

Trill Impact fund raises €900m from Nordea, AP funds

Nordea Asset Management (NAM) and Sweden's AP pension funds are among investors to have contributed to a €900 million

People moves 3 September: MSCI, Neuberger Berman, APG, Allianz GI, Carlyle Group and more