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  • US financial regulators urged to address climate risk

    07 January 2022

    US financial regulators have been urged to make 2022 a year of action on climate change.

  • Inflation will benefit green stocks, says fund manager

    24 December 2021

    Investors in green companies have nothing to fear from the bout of inflation roiling stock markets, a leading sustainable fund manager has argued.

  • EIOPA: ESG tops risk list for insurers and pensions

    14 December 2021

    Environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks are expected to have the greatest increase in materiality for both the insurance and pensions sector, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) has said.

  • Indonesian paper firm expansion 'litmus test' for 'net-zero' banks

    14 December 2021

    The substantial financing being sought by two Indonesian paper and pulp firms to support their expansion plans has been described by environmental groups as a "litmus test"...

  • Amundi to exclude oil and gas companies

    09 December 2021

    Europe's largest asset manager Amundi will expand its exclusion policy to encompass companies extracting oil and gas from next year.

  • Tokio Marine plans ¥100bn of divestments

    30 November 2021

    Japanese insurer Tokio Marine will divest at least ¥100 billion ($884 million) of equities, including in fossil fuel firms, by its 2023 reporting year as part of its commitment to sustainability.

  • Fitch warns climate poses growing sovereign credit risk

    24 November 2021

    Some countries are likely to default on their debts in the future due to the impact of climate change, credit agency Fitch Ratings has warned.

  • Qontigo adds carbon price to its macro risk model

    08 November 2021

    Qontigo has started factoring carbon pricing into modelling used to measure the risk of equities.

  • 'First' EU carbon allowance-backed security launched

    04 November 2021

    Carbon investing firm SparkChange has launched a physically-backed carbon exchange-traded commodity (ETC) security, intended to prevent carbon emissions by withholding EU carbon credits from polluters and support investor engagement.

  • French financial firms must draw on coal lessons for fossil fuel policies, say regulators

    26 October 2021

    French regulators have encouraged financial firms to draw lessons from their thermal coal policies for other fossil fuel sectors in order to align with the goals of the Paris Agreement...