All posts tagged "environmental risk"
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148Hong KongHong Kong Launches Centre for Green and Sustainable Finance
The Centre will serve as a cross-sector platform to coordinate the transition efforts and serve as a repository for resources, data and analytics.
July 16, 2021 -
119Big PictureCorporate Governance Policy Frameworks Need Strengthening: OECD
The OECD says significantly fewer companies are using public equity markets, but that strengthening corporate governance policies and frameworks can help.
July 5, 2021 -
406Big PictureMAS Sets Out Climate Strategy in Inaugural Sustainability Report
Five asset managers have been appointed to manage S$1.8bn of Singapore's official foreign reserves under new mandates focused on climate change and the environment.
June 10, 2021 -
104Asia-PacificBSP Outlines Expectations for Banks on Sustainable Finance
Banks must establish environmental and social risk management systems and disclose their sustainability initiatives in their annual reports.
June 4, 2021 -
686FeatureBNM Finalises ‘Climate Change and Principle-based Taxonomy’
The document introduces a progressive system of transition categories to acknowledge concrete efforts and commitments by businesses to adopt sustainable practices.
May 3, 2021 -
770Big PictureClimate Risk & Regulation: A Race to the Top
Bill Coen, Chair of the IFRS Advisory Council and former BCBS Secretary General, speaks to Regulation Asia about initiatives underway to mitigate climate-related risk in the banking sector.
March 23, 2021 -
830Asia-PacificPwC Offers ESG Risk Management Recommendations for Banks
Banks need to adopt training and change management programmes to ensure employees embrace ESG risk management as a requirement and discipline.
March 10, 2021 -
845Contributed ArticleSingapore v EU: How Their Green Taxonomies Compare
Allen & Overy's Shuhui Kwok discusses Singapore's proposed green taxonomy, describing how it aligns with - and differs from - the EU Taxonomy Regulation.
February 11, 2021 -
486FeatureSingapore Taskforce Proposes Taxonomy for Identifying Green Activities
The taxonomy draws on the theoretical underpinnings of the EU taxonomy and proposes a traffic-light system which sets out how activities are classified.
January 29, 2021 -
790Featured Articles2021’s ESG Regulatory and Legislative Changes
Ahead of COP26 in November, a plethora of regulatory and legislative changes as well as industry-level initiatives will drastically impact the ESG investing space.
January 14, 2021
