Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, recently gave a speech on sustainable finance at the United Nations Climate Action Summit highlighting the need for effective climate disclosure to build a sustainable financial system. Carney sees the initiatives and innovations of the private sector as key to underpinning the work of governmental climate policy, […]
Earlier this year the UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced the launch of the Climate Financial Risk Forum (CFRF), holding their second meeting in July 2019. The CFRF aims to tackle climate-change related financial risks with practical tools and strategic approaches. It brings together senior representatives from the financial sector to […]
The UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has opened consultation on the draft Streamlined Energy & Carbon Reporting (SECR) Taxonomy, with comments welcome until September 30. On April 1 2019 the UK government introduced the new SECR policy, building on the previous Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting policy to extend mandatory energy reporting to more companies. The […]
Under a proposed new Green Finance Strategy announced this week the UK Government expects listed companies and large asset owners to disclose the impact of climate change on their businesses from 2022. The Treasury is considering the most effective way of ensuring that this disclosure happens, including, if necessary, requiring mandatory disclosure. The Green Finance […]
Dr. Sabine Mauderer, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, recently gave a speech on the role central banks, policymakers and standardisation have to play in scaling up green finance. Mauderer discussed the work of the Central Banks and Supervisors Network on Greening the Financial System (NGFS). The NGFS’s key message is that […]
The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) have published their second Status Report, analysing the extent to which companies have aligned their disclosures with the TCFD’s core recommendations. The Status Report has found an encouraging steady increase in the support for TCFD recommendations – with more than 800 organizations expressing support – and has […]
It’s already clear that climate change will present real financial risks to insurers over the coming decades – but how should the sector respond? A cross industry working group set up by the UK’s PRA has published a framework for the general insurance sector to guide them through assessing the financial impacts of climate change. […]
Global markets have, in theory, recognised the need for climate-related-risk reporting – but in practice, implementing effective disclosure practices can be a daunting task. More than 600 organisations have shown support for the Task Force on Climate Related Disclosure’s proposals; however, take-up has been slow, with a number of companies calling for more practical guidance. To […]
A new ISO Technical Committee (TC), TC322, has been set up to promote standardisation within sustainable finance. The committee will produce standards that will support sustainable economic activity. The hope is to integrate sustainability, environment, social and governance metrics within investment decision making. Expert members of the committee include Karla Mckenna from GLEIF and the XBRL International Best […]
The Bank of England (BoE) is leading by example and disclosing its own assessment of how it is managing climate-related financial risk in its 2019/20 annual report. The BoE have been pushing for stronger climate-change related risk disclosure with a number of actions in the last year, including a recent consultation on previous climate-related risk […]
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