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  • UK green finance strategy 'fails to address challenge of financing transition'

    31 March 2023

    The UK's green finance strategy has been accused of "failing to address the ... challenge of financing the overall energy transition" by not explaining how the country aims to promote investment to decarbonise its economy.

  • Investors welcome UK's plans for mandatory transition reporting

    03 November 2021

    Investors and NGOs have given a cautious welcome to the UK's plans to introduce mandatory reporting for financial firms on their transition strategies.

  • Exclusive investor reaction to IPCC report: No part of portfolio immune

    09 August 2021

    A landmark report published today by leading climate scientists has been greeted by investors as a chastening warning of the potentially catastrophic impacts of current global emissions, but also an important signifier of the transition required.

  • Campanale: EU has 'bowed to the industry lobby' on natural gas

    31 March 2021

    Mark Campanale, founder of the Carbon Tracker initiative, has criticised recent proposals to include some activities using natural gas in the EU Taxonomy, claiming it represents the document being shaped by political and industry interests.

  • 2DII and Carbon Tracker launch research collaboration project

    01 July 2020

    2° Investing Initiative (2DII) and Carbon Tracker have launched a collaborative research project to provide a climate scenario analysis service to financial institutions and companies.

  • Planet Tracker: Investors facing risk with unsustainable salmon farming

    03 June 2020

    Institutional investors such as DNB, Vanguard and BlackRock are exposed to a salmon fishing industry that could be negatively affected by the Covid-19 pandemic and ongoing environmental issues.

  • Coalition of 42 global faith groups divest from fossil fuels

    18 May 2020

    Over 40 religious institutions with more than £1.1 billion ($1.3 billion) in assets under management have agreed to divest from fossil fuel companies, in the largest ever joint announcement by faith organisations.

  • Is Climate Action 100+ pushing hard enough?

    19 July 2019

    The heavyweight investor engagement initiative has won some victories with fossil fuel giants. But should it be demanding more, asks Elena K Johansson.

  • London and Amsterdam top index of world’s green financial centres

    28 March 2019

    European cities dominated an index of the world’s top green financial centres, with London and Amsterdam outperforming their peers.

  • People Moves: Carbon Tracker, State Street Corporation, ANZ Bank New Zealand and MFS Investment Management

    22 March 2019

    Anthony Hobley, chief executive officer of not-for-profit financial think-tank the Carbon Tracker Initiative, will step down and join the organisation's advisory board as co-chair from April.