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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
PwC Offers ESG Risk Management Recommendations for Banks
By Manesh Samtani | 09/03/2021
Banks need to adopt training and change management programmes to ensure employees embrace ESG risk management as a requirement and discipline.
Climate Risk
BOJ Governor Says Climate Change Should Guide Monetary Policy
By Editors | 08/03/2021
The BOJ must speed up research and deepen its understanding of climate change and its impacts on monetary policy, Governor Haruhiko Kuroda told parliament.
Reporting & Disclosures
US SEC Forms Task Force to Pursue ESG-related Misconduct
By Editors | 08/03/2021
The task force’s initial focus will be to identify material gaps or misstatements in issuers’ disclosure of climate risks under existing rules.
Sustainable Finance
Chinese SOEs to Issue Carbon Neutrality Bonds on Shanghai Bourse
By Editors | 04/03/2021
China Energy Investment Corp, State Power Investment Corp, China Huaneng Group Co and China National Nuclear Corp will issue carbon neutrality bonds on the SSE.
Sustainable Finance
UK to Issue First Sovereign Green Bonds for Retail Investors
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 03/03/2021
The savings bonds will fund projects in areas such as renewable energy and clean transportation and will go on sale to retail investors this year.
Climate Risk
UK to Launch Post-Brexit Carbon Trading Scheme in May
By ESG Investor | 02/03/2021
The UK’s emissions trading scheme is “unlikely” to diverge too much from the EU’s regime, says Hæge Fjellheim, Head of Carbon Research at Refinitiv.
Sustainable Finance
China, US to Co-Chair G20 Sustainable Finance Study Group
By Editors | 02/03/2021
The Sustainable Finance Study Group is being re-established after a two-year suspension, with the PBOC and the US Treasury as its co-chairs.
Climate Risk
Malaysian FIs to Start Applying Climate Risk Taxonomy
By Editors | 02/03/2021
Financial institutions will begin capturing exposures based on the Climate Change and Principles-Based Taxonomy over the course of 2021.
Climate Risk
BOJ, FSA to Analysis Climate Impacts on Banks This Year
By Editors | 02/03/2021
The BOJ will reportedly work with the FSA to analyse the impact of climate risks on banks in this year’s examinations.
Climate Risk
Former SEC Chairman Embraces Climate-Related Disclosure
By ESG Investor | 01/03/2021
Jay Clayton had previously defended voluntary ESG disclosures as opposed to mandatory, insisting that flexible requirements would be effective.
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