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Comment: There is no 'Trump dump' for environmental finance
10 July 2017President Donald Trump reaffirmed his decision to pull the US out of the Paris climate agreement at this weekend's G20 meeting in Hamburg.
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Mark Carney: It doesn't matter whether the G20 supports the TCFD
29 June 2017The recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) will gain traction even if they are not officially backed by the G20, Mark Carney has claimed.
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Link remuneration to climate risk, says TCFD
29 June 2017A key update in the final recommendations of the Financial Stability Board's (FSB) Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) is a call to link climate-related risks and disclosure play in remunerations.
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Final TCFD report supported by investors with $25trn
29 June 2017The Financial Stability Board's (FSB) Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) has released its final report, with the public support of investors with roughly $25 trillion in assets under management. Other businesses with a combined market capitalisation of approximately $3.5 trillion have also supported the recommendations.
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BoE outlines climate change response
16 June 2017The 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.
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Shareholder climate success at Exxon
31 May 2017A shareholder resolution calling for ExxonMobil to do more to tackle climate change received a significant majority, despite not being backed by the board.
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QE policy could increase risk of stranded assets, researchers warn
31 May 2017Purchases of corporate bonds by the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of England, as part of their quantitative easing (QE) initiatives, could be adding to the risk of assets in the oil and gas sectors becoming 'stranded'.
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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