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A steering group has been assembled to guide the launch of the UK's Green Finance Institute.

Asset owners and large companies based in the UK should be forced to report their exposure to climate-related risk within four years, the country's government has been told.

An industry taskforce has urged the UK Government to boost the growth of green finance by enforcing the voluntary recommendations of the FSB's Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) in law.

The UK government has announced a taskforce of senior financiers to help accelerate the growth of green finance – a field in which it claims the UK already enjoys global leadership.

The Bank of England (BoE) has outlined its response to climate change in a new report that is hoped will encourage other financial institutions to follow.

Insurance companies have been warned again about the risk of their assets becoming 'stranded' in the transition to a low-carbon economy, this time by Lloyd's of London.

Fossil-fuel companies with the greatest vulnerability to environmental risks have been named in new analysis, which urges firms to report at asset level to enable investors to better judge portfolio risks.

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

Green investment opportunities have become "too big to ignore", according to a report by Goldman Sachs.

A list of coal companies expected to be ditched by Norway's oil fund as a result of its new divestment policy has been published.