Six months after COP26, what lessons can the financial sector impart?

The quicker climate risk is priced into capital markets the better, says Emanuela Vartolomei

Investment,Stranded Assets

LGIM divests two laggards as part of 'climate pledge'

Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) is to divest two companies from funds managing £87 billion…

ESG,Stranded Assets

Coal business resorts to "haphazard coalition" of insurers as giants retract

Financiers and governments at risk if they accept inexperienced underwriters, says Insure Our Future

Insurance,Stranded Assets

Macron and Bloomberg launch climate data transparency drive

An initiative has been launched to boost transparency on climate data, and allow companies to be "held…

ESG Data,Stranded Assets

Examining countries' vulnerability to physical climate risks

S&P Global Ratings assesses the vulnerability of 135 countries to climate change and lays out the case for climate finance

Stranded Assets

BoE's Breeden warns against 'paper decarbonisation'

There is a risk of a failed energy transition if financial institutions do not back up their transition…

Policy,Stranded Assets

Australia's AGL Energy ditches coal demerger

Investment,Stranded Assets

Investors warned of plastics industry's pollution 'ambivalence'

Investors in the European plastics industry have been warned of its 'ambivalence' towards the pollution…

Asia Pacific,Investment,Stranded Assets

California state pension fund fossil fuel exit bill progresses

Investment,Policy,Stranded Assets

Exxon shareholders support net-zero scenario report

Shareholders at US oil & gas supermajor ExxonMobil have voted in favour of a resolution to report on…

ESG,Stranded Assets

M&G faces shareholder backlash on its climate transition plan

One-fifth of shareholders reject net-zero emissions commitments

Insurance,Stranded Assets

HSBC rejects comments by its head of RI about climate

HSBC has distanced itself from the remarks of a senior employee who delivered a controversial speech…

Stranded Assets

US Treasury 'watching with interest' investor transition planning

Investors' work to assess and influence companies' decarbonisation plans is increasingly being watched…

Policy,Stranded Assets

Asset managers must end fossil fuel investment

There's no way for asset managers to hit net zero targets without setting fossil fuel exclusion policies, argues Desiree Fixler

People,Stranded Assets

SCOR, an insurer committed to the climate?

SCOR has so far been slow to respond to the climate emergency, argues Lucie Pinson

Insurance,Stranded Assets

The burden of box ticking

Sustainability reporting often fails to capture complicated discussions in emerging markets, FSSA's Alistair Thompson tells Genevieve Redgrave

Asia Pacific,Equity,Investment,Stranded Assets

Gas inclusion would 'debase' UK taxonomy

The UK has been warned that including natural gas in its taxonomy of green activities would "debase"…

Policy,Stranded Assets

AXA IM Alts contributes to $150m carbon capture company funding

Carbon Clean aims to tackle challenges of carbon capture utilisation and storage

Insurance,Renewables,Stranded Assets

Carney: Some fossil fuel investment justified

The transition to a net-zero carbon economy requires "nothing short of a revolution", although some limited…

Stranded Assets

Allianz to halt investments in new oil and gas fields

And will require 'net-zero by 2050' commitment from hydrocarbon producers

Insurance,Stranded Assets