24 June, 2019
Climate reporting: TCFD urges companies to disclose data
Last week climate emergency protestors from Greenpeace disrupted the annual Mansion House speech of the UK chancellor, Philip Hammond. A pep talk to the financial world’s great and good, this year...
18 June, 2019
CDP criticises top companies over environmental disclosures
Being named and shamed is never a comfortable event, but hundreds of companies this week shared the experience as campaigners criticised their lack of transparency on environmental information. Ama...
28 January, 2019
Battling climate change boosts stock performance
CLIMATE CHANGE NEWS COMES thick and fast. Here’s the news from last week. UN chief António Guterres warned attendees at Davos that the world is “losing the race” against climate change; news ou...
17 October, 2018
Regulators make climate demands of financial services
It’s little more than a week since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chang...
7 June, 2018
Why serious investors demand more than just climate disclosure
In 2014, when I first started engaging pension funds on the issue of climate change, a worrying number would respond that they could not take savers’ “ethical concerns” into account. Not only a ...
8 February, 2018
Investors’ fiduciary duty should ‘require’ attention to climate change
The UK's investment regulation should be reformed so that fiduciary duties for investors include a consideration of climate change and ESG (environmental, social and governance) issues. The call co...
15 January, 2018
MPs ask if voluntary climate-risk reporting recommendations are enough
An influential committee of MPs will this week begin an inquiry which will include whether climate-change-risk disclosure recommendations made by an international task force should be mandatory. Th...
21 March, 2017
