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US financial regulators urged to address climate risk
07 January 2022US financial regulators have been urged to make 2022 a year of action on climate change.
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Inflation will benefit green stocks, says fund manager
24 December 2021Investors in green companies have nothing to fear from the bout of inflation roiling stock markets, a leading sustainable fund manager has argued.
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EIOPA: ESG tops risk list for insurers and pensions
14 December 2021Environmental, 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.
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Indonesian paper firm expansion 'litmus test' for 'net-zero' banks
14 December 2021The 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"...
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Amundi to exclude oil and gas companies
09 December 2021Europe's largest asset manager Amundi will expand its exclusion policy to encompass companies extracting oil and gas from next year.
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Tokio Marine plans ¥100bn of divestments
30 November 2021Japanese 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.
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Fitch warns climate poses growing sovereign credit risk
24 November 2021Some countries are likely to default on their debts in the future due to the impact of climate change, credit agency Fitch Ratings has warned.
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Qontigo adds carbon price to its macro risk model
08 November 2021Qontigo has started factoring carbon pricing into modelling used to measure the risk of equities.
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'First' EU carbon allowance-backed security launched
04 November 2021Carbon 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.
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French financial firms must draw on coal lessons for fossil fuel policies, say regulators
26 October 2021French 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...