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News round-up: HSBC, ICAPs, Cervest and Bloomin' Brands

Investor Agenda releases tool to help investors manage climate risks

People Moves 30th April: IGCC, Blackstone, Big Society Capital, ClimateCare, and more

Australia launches HLEG-style sustainable finance initiative

A group of leaders and senior executives at Australia’s major banks, superannuation funds and insurance companies has been assembled to devise a sustainable finance ‘roadmap’.

Investors press politicians to facilitate more low-carbon investment

Leading institutional investors have called on national governments to act more urgently to spur private sector capital into low-carbon investments.

Australia faces mounting climate policy challenge

Climate policy has long been the subject of bitter political feuds in Australia, leaving the country grappling with policy change every electoral cycle. What does climate action in Australia look like this year? Katie Kouchakji reports

NZ Super moves $10bn passive equities to low-carbon

New Zealand Super Fund has shifted its NZ$14 billion ($10 billion) global passive equity portfolio into a low-carbon strategy.

Investors develop guidance on meeting TCFD recommendations

Advice on how institutional investors should disclose the impact of climate change on their portfolios has been issued by a group of asset owners and managers from Asia and Australia.

Investors spell out climate change expectations of auto sector

A wish list of measures that investors want automotive companies to take in response to climate change has been published by a group of leading institutions representing assets of more than $24 trillion.

Investors and industry hail entry into force of Paris Agreement

Institutional investors and leading industrial companies have welcomed the news that the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change will come into force on 4 November.