PRI urges more 'robust' asset owner TCFD implementation

Asset owners need to take 'next steps' on TCFD - particularly on scenario analysis, the PRI tells Genevieve Redgrave

Asia Pacific,ESG Data

ISSB set to go further than TCFD, vice-chair says

The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) is looking to create more comprehensive standards…

Investment,Policy

Singapore low-carbon index launched

Singapore Exchange (SGX) and Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) have launched a low carbon index…

Asia Pacific,Carbon

Japanese TCFD supporters labour to disclose climate resilience

Two-thirds of Japanese supporters of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) have…

Asia Pacific,Policy

TCFD plans to recommend 'forward-looking' disclosures

The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) secretariat plans to update its guidance…

ESG Data

Forward-looking metrics need improved methodologies, says TCFD consultation

Results from a Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) consultation have underlined…

ESG Data

TCFD advised to abandon implied temperature rise metric

The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) secretariat should not include in its…

ESG Data

Missing metrics: climate vs nature

Data on nature-related risks is more complicated than for climate, explains Nicky Chambers

Natural Capital

Carney: AGMs could give investors 'say on transition plans'

Mark Carney has suggested investors could be given an automatic advisory vote on companies' net-zero…

ESG Data,Investment,Policy

TCFD eyes new forward-looking metrics

The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) is studying the feasibility of recommending…

ESG Data

Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures 'to be launched in Q1 2021'

Exploratory work for a Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) is set to begin in September,…

ESG Data,Policy

Canadian firms must file TCFD reports to get Covid-19 bailout

Canada has made reporting climate risks a condition of receiving its Covid-19 bailout funding.

Policy

EU launches NFRD consultation

The European Commission has launched a public consultation on the review of the non-financial reporting…

Policy

Keep TCFD recommendations voluntary, says Insurance Europe

Lobby group responds to IAIS climate disclosure paper

Insurance

Framework for SDG disclosures unveiled by accounting bodies

Broad recommendations for disclosures based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been…

IMPACT

High-emitters' climate disclosures 'fail to quantify financial impact'

The climate-related financial disclosures by most US and European companies in 'environmentally sensitive'…

ESG data files: Part five - the impact of the EU's taxonomy

Will the EU's sustainability taxonomy reduce the reporting burden on companies, or could it be another weight on their shoulders? Michael Hurley reports

ESG,ESG Data

CA100+ targets lobbying, implementing TCFD and net zero emissions

Climate Action (CA) 100+ has set out its engagement priorities, over the coming months, in its first…

Investment,Policy

Insurance and Climate Risk Americas 2019

Delegates at Environmental Finance’s Insurance and Climate Risk Americas conference in New York heard how climate-related legislation is racing up the agenda in the US, Michael Hurley reports

Insurance

Setting the benchmark for sustainable banking

The Principles for Responsible Banking are due to be launched this month. Could they be a game-changer for the sector, Michael Hurley asks

Debt,ESG,Equity,Policy