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Reporting on regulatory responses, risk management practices, and financial impacts of climate-related risks, including physical and transitional risks.
Reporting & Disclosures
Malaysia to Issue ESG Disclosure Guide for SMEs
By Editors | 01/09/2022
Regulators are also developing guidance on Malaysia’s taxonomy, exploring blended finance solutions, and developing a catalogue of climate risk data sources.
Sustainable Finance
China to Develop Chongqing into Green Finance Hub
By Darien Choong | 30/08/2022
The plan will seek to transform Chongqing into a green finance hub in five years, with “rich green financial products and services”.
Sustainable Finance
BSP Issues Sustainable Investment Guidelines for Banks
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 29/08/2022
Banks whose investments are exposed to material environmental and social risks should adopt appropriate tools and metrics to assess, measure, and monitor these risks.
Climate Risk
Japan Publishes Results of Climate Scenario Analysis Exercise
By Editors | 29/08/2022
The results highlight a need for banks to use common assumptions within their models, refine their analysis of individual companies, and enhance their methodologies.
Reporting & Disclosures
Global Banks Worry of Extraterritoriality in EU’s CSRD – Report
By Editors | 28/08/2022
CSRD is “off-putting” for banks’ clients, as it would subject foreign companies to the full set of rules if they list even a single instrument in the EU.
Climate Risk
RBA Calls on FIs to ‘Act Now’ to Address Climate Risk
By Manesh Samtani | 25/08/2022
All insurers, banks and super fund trustees face liability risk if they do not disclose, address and manage the effects of climate change sufficiently.
Sustainable Finance
BOT Outlines Plans to Promote Environmental Sustainability
By Manesh Samtani | 24/08/2022
The plans include new guidelines for banks, new data platforms, a new taxonomy, and other capacity-building initiatives.
Sustainable Finance
Malaysia SC Expands SRI Sukuk and Bond Grant Scheme
By Editors | 24/08/2022
The grant scheme, designed to help defray external review costs, is being extended to cover SRI-linked sukuk issued under the SC’s new framework.
Sustainable Finance
IMF Issues Staff Note on Mobilising Climate Finance
By Editors | 23/08/2022
The IMF staff note explores the factors that limit climate finance and what policymakers can do to address them, particularly in emerging market and developing economies.
Reporting & Disclosures
China Sets Out Plans to Create National Carbon Accounting System
By Darien Choong | 22/08/2022
A unified and standardised carbon emission statistical and accounting system will be established by 2023 and gradually improved until 2025.
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