Climate Risk

Sustainable Finance

Fireside Chat: Regulating Carbon Markets

By Editors | 02/11/2022

IOSCO’s Nathanail described the challenges across different jurisdictions in building functional, efficient and standardised carbon markets. She also discussed the incentives for jurisdictions to sell offset units to other countries, regulatory arbitrage issues, and the interplay between ETS schemes, VCMs, and carbon tax regimes.

Sustainable Finance

IDX, MVGX Partner to Develop Indonesia’s Carbon Market

By Editors | 02/11/2022

Indonesia Stock Exchange and Singapore’s MetaVerse Green Exchange will collaborate to develop a carbon exchange system in Indonesia.

Sustainable Finance

GFANZ Aims to Boost “Speed and Scope” of Net Zero Transition

By ESG Investor | 01/11/2022

Alongside the finalised transition framework for financial institutions, GFANZ issues updates on portfolio alignment metrics and policy levers.

Climate Risk

Panel 6: Transition Risks and Drivers for ESG Investing

By Editors | 01/11/2022

This panel looks at best practice approaches to understanding and managing the climate and broader environmental risks in portfolios and how can we ensure a just transition.

Reporting & Disclosures

Panel 3: The Role of Data and Tech in Assessing and Managing ESG Risk

By Editors | 01/11/2022

This panel looks at how banks and governments are implementing ESG in their risk management processes and existing ESG stress testing models and the data and technology needed to quantify risks.

Credit Risk

NZ Banks ‘Well Placed’ to Withstand Stagflation Scenario: RBNZ

By Editors | 01/11/2022

The stress tests show that river and surface water flooding may be a greater climate-related hazard for residential mortgages than coastal flooding.

Climate Risk

GFANZ ‘Quiet Quits’ Race to Net Zero

By ESG Investor | 30/10/2022

The GFANZ 2022 progress report appeared to confirm the alliance’s intention to allow member groups to set their own path to net zero.

Structural Regulation

China Eases Foreign Investment Access With New Catalogue, Incentives

By Editors | 30/10/2022

The catalogue lists 519 sectors in which foreign investment are encouraged. Measures to facilitate foreign investment and attract foreign talent were also announced.

Reporting & Disclosures

Singapore to Host Platform to Unify Carbon Market Registry Data

By Editors | 29/10/2022

Climate Action Data Trust, or CAD Trust, will link, aggregate and harmonise all major carbon market registry data, and help with reporting under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.