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Reporting on regulatory responses, risk management practices, and financial impacts of climate-related risks, including physical and transitional risks.
Climate Risk
ABS Launches Environmental Risk Questionnaire for Banks
By Editors | 21/04/2022
The ABS has launched an industry standard template to help banks engage corporate clients in the assessment and mitigation of environmental risk issues.
Emerging Prudential Risks
FSB Warns of Emerging Vulnerabilities, Financial Stability Risks
By Manesh Samtani | 21/04/2022
Global financial stability cannot be taken for granted going forward, FSB Chair Klaas Knot said in a letter to G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors.
Reporting & Disclosures
WFE Publishes Paper on Human Rights Disclosure Practices
By Editors | 19/04/2022
The paper addresses social washing concerns and offers guidance for exchanges on reporting against human-rights related reporting frameworks.
Climate Risk
SBTi Offers Guidance to FIs on Setting Net Zero Targets
By Editors | 19/04/2022
SBTi’s new paper provides principles, definitions, metrics, and target formulation considerations for FIs to set quantitative net-zero targets.
Climate Risk
FSA Issues Guidance to Japanese FIs on Using NGFS Scenarios
By Editors | 19/04/2022
The guidance will help Japanese financial institutions use of the NGFS scenarios to conduct climate-related financial risk analysis, the FSA said.
Reporting & Disclosures
Canada to Require Climate Disclosures for FIs from 2024
By Editors | 14/04/2022
The OSFI will consult financial institutions on climate disclosures guidelines that will phase in mandatory TCFD-aligned reporting beginning in 2024.
Sustainable Finance
SGX Set to List First ETF Based on New Low Carbon Index
By Editors | 12/04/2022
The ETF will allow investors to buy just one unit at a time, a feature aimed at attracting investment from younger and newer investors.
Reporting & Disclosures
IIGCC Offers Ratios to Track Portfolios’ Climate Impact
By ESG Investor | 12/04/2022
A new report by the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change provides guidance to asset owners on closing the net zero investment gap.
ESG Data
IMF Updates Climate Change Indicators Dashboard
By Editors | 12/04/2022
Major updates to the dashboard include introducing new indicators as well as updating data for the existing indicators.
Climate Risk
Financial Institutions Underestimating Climate Risk: IPCC Report
By Editors | 07/04/2022
Transparency alone is insufficient to drive the required asset reallocation in the absence of clear regulatory frameworks, the report says.
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