All Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures articles
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Opinion Pieces
Viewpoint: How trustees can create practical carbon journey plans
Dealing with climate change is a responsibility we all share – but trustees may be wondering how they get from their starting point to the required end-goal. This ‘carbon journey’ needs a plan.
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BP chief economist suggests focus on prices rather than climate scenarios
Spencer Dale floats idea of ‘shortcutting’ use of scenarios and turning straight to price metrics
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Investors call on companies to provide ‘Paris-aligned’ financial accounts
Major pension investors put their name to letter to 36 of Europe’s largest companies
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LGPS manager highlights hurdles to meeting UK’s TCFD plan
The manager of the £1bn Hammersmith & Fulham pension fund is ‘excited and encouraged’ by the plan to make climate related financial disclosures mandatory
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Investors warned about carbon intensity metric in EU climate indices
Regulation’s use of a revenues-based carbon intensity metric ’unhelpful in the pursuit of climate change mitigation’
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LGPS TCFD consultation among myriad UK green finance plans
Chancellor announces mandatory TCFD reporting, green bond, green taxonomy plans
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Asset managers split over UK corporate TCFD reporting rule approach
Aviva backs comply-or-explain rather than mandatory route, but with annual AGM vote
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PLSA outlines action plan to facilitate climate-aware investing
Recommendations for action include joint industry-government work to ‘achieve a common language and taxonomy ahead of COP26’
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Minister pledges more climate change action for UK pensions sector
UK pensions minister Guy Opperman addressed the industry on climate change and the Pension Schemes Bill
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UK secretary confirms plan to match ambition of EU sustainable finance
‘We want to help asset managers become effective stewards on behalf of clients’
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PPF issues first RI report as part of move to ‘share more widely’ [updated]
Inaugural report reveals reporting and stewardship policy plans; annual report and accounts delayed until autumn
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DWP not so keen on sustainability impact focus à la EU SFDR
Policy official also indicates implied temperature rise reporting may be on the cards for UK pension schemes
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Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance sets out ‘demanding’ methodology needs
Group issues ‘call for comment’ as it gears up to set its first intermediate decarbonisation targets
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UK pension trustees presented with guide to climate-related risks
Trustees are facing rapidly increasing expectations with regard to climate change
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UK’s FCA calls on listed companies to improve climate-related disclosures
‘The FCA should just make the TCFD recommendations mandatory for all listed companies’
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Cheers and concerns over DWP climate amendments to pension bill
PLSA urges government to redraft amendments
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Did they come true? 2019 responsible investment wishes revisited
IPE asks asset owners, asset managers and others to look back on their wishes for the year
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New pensions climate risk group targets consultation in early 2020
Group was set up by the pensions regulator together with government departments
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Poor corporate emissions data ‘a scandal’, says analysis firm
Arabesque S-Ray CEO says the use of climate scores based on estimated emissions means the financial industry is not incentivising companies to publicly report
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Research on corporate climate action an ‘urgent challenge to investors’
Research conducted for asset owner network finds that seven in eight companies not cutting carbon emissions at the rate required to keep global warming below 2°C