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Coal business resorts to "haphazard coalition" of insurers as giants retract

Financiers and governments at risk if they accept inexperienced underwriters, says Insure Our Future

Macron and Bloomberg launch climate data transparency drive

An initiative has been launched to boost transparency on climate data, and allow companies to be "held accountable" for their net zero commitments.

Examining countries' vulnerability to physical climate risks

S&P Global Ratings assesses the vulnerability of 135 countries to climate change and lays out the case for climate finance

BoE's Breeden warns against 'paper decarbonisation'

There is a risk of a failed energy transition if financial institutions do not back up their transition plans with investment to decarbonise heavy-emitting activities, a senior Bank of England official has warned.

Australia's AGL Energy ditches coal demerger

Investors warned of plastics industry's pollution 'ambivalence'

Investors in the European plastics industry have been warned of its 'ambivalence' towards the pollution problem, with the sector named as a 'high risk option'.

California state pension fund fossil fuel exit bill progresses

Exxon shareholders support net-zero scenario report

Shareholders at US oil & gas supermajor ExxonMobil have voted in favour of a resolution to report on a net-zero by 2050 scenario.

M&G faces shareholder backlash on its climate transition plan

One-fifth of shareholders reject net-zero emissions commitments

HSBC rejects comments by its head of RI about climate

HSBC has distanced itself from the remarks of a senior employee who delivered a controversial speech about 'Why investors need not worry about climate risk'.