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Global Climate Action Summit - three key takeaways
18 September 2018Last week's Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) in California saw CEOs, investors, political leaders and celebrities step up global action on climate change. Paul Simpson looks at three of the hottest topics
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Investor Agenda finds $32trn of backing
13 September 2018Investors with a combined $32 trillion in assets have signed up to an initiative to step up action on climate change.
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Project to harmonise reporting standards set for launch
08 August 2018The Corporate Reporting Dialogue (CRD), a collaboration of major corporate reporting frameworks and standards, is planning to launch a harmonisation project.
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Should non-financial reporting frameworks be harmonised?
08 August 2018There is a baffling array of sustainability-focused reporting frameworks and standards. Would it be beneficial to bring them into alignment, asks Elena Johansson.
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Capital goods sector 'disappoints on reporting Scope 3 emissions'
24 July 2018The capital goods sector's disclosure and management of Scope 3 emissions is poor, and lags that of the autos sector, a report has found.
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Ambachtsheer leaves Mercer to join BNP
20 July 2018Jane Ambachtsheer has left her role at consultancy giant Mercer to join BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM).
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90% of Green Finance Summit participants vote for mandatory TCFD
19 July 2018There was 90% support for making the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) mandatory within five years, according to a poll of the audience at the Green Finance Summit in London.
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Rick Stathers joins Aviva Investors' growing ESG team
12 July 2018Rick Stathers has been appointed as senior ESG analyst, and Sora Utzinger as ESG analyst by Aviva Investors. Both were previously at CDP.
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Science-based targets gain traction in climate fund rating methodology
09 July 2018A tool designed to help investors assess carbon risks in their portfolios has been updated to incorporate ‘science-based targets’, in a sign of the growing significance of these targets.
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Climate Action 100+ expands its reach and attracts new backers
04 July 2018An additional 61 companies have been added to Climate Action 100+ list, increasing the reach of the investor-backed initiative that aims to engage with "systemically important greenhouse gas emitters".