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Voting begins for EF's Deals of the Year awards
12 April 2017Nominations are now being accepted for the tenth annual Environmental Finance Deals of the Year awards.
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Stranded assets are real threat to industry - Lloyd's
22 March 2017Insurance 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.
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TCFD: A full disclosure
20 March 2017Will the Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) report change the landscape for investors, asks Hamza Ali
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TCFD could help companies deal with first mover risk when it comes to climate disclosure
03 March 2017The Financial Stability Board's Task Force for Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendation that companies should use scenario analyses in their reporting could reduce the competitive risks attached to revealing strategically sensitive data.
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Market will decide what climate scenarios to use, says Bloomberg
15 December 2016It is up for the market to decide how best to implement the Financial Stability Board's (FSB) Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations and which climate-related scenario to deploy, said Michael Bloomberg, chairman of the report.
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TCFD's long-awaited report revealed
14 December 2016After a year of intensive work, the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) today laid out its eagerly-awaited recommendations designed to help standardise and mainstream considerations about the impacts of climate change on companies.
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TCFD's four major disclosure recommendations revealed
09 December 2016Details of the four major disclosure recommendations from Financial Stability Board's (FSB) Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) have emerged ahead of the report's launch next week.
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COP Blog: Sovereign green bonds: the missing link between NDCs and the $100trn debt capital markets
11 November 2016BNP Paribas IP
After the ratification of the Paris Agreement, we expect COP22 in Marrakesh to focus on the transparency of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), compliance and means of implementation. -
US insurers 'turning blind eye to climate change'
21 October 2016Many US insurers are still turning a blind eye to climate change, with less than 20% attaining high scores for their climate risk reporting, a study has warned.
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The process of integrating the environment and finance has only just begun
19 October 2016The 'green economy' is a hot topic at the moment. It moved up the agenda thanks to the game-changing Paris climate agreement. And momentum continued to grow this year as a result of the importance that the G20 has placed on 'green finance'.