BP: Activist investor urges toughening up of climate agenda – as pressure builds on energy giant’s chair April 24, 2023 Follow This has urged investors to back its proposals to toughen BP's climate agenda amid intense pressure on its chairman Helge Lund.
Climate change: Finance groups praise ‘world leading’ transition plans but warn of challenges ahead March 7, 2023 UK finance firms have praised the ambition of new climate change regulations which will set out a potentially world-leading framework for assessing companies’ climate transition plans. The transition plan taskforce (TPT) is considering proposals to make a standardised framework for assessing climate transition plans due to concerns plans published by companies at the moment “vary [...]
‘We talk about the three Cs now: cost of living, climate and conflict’ December 9, 2022 KPMG’s ESG chief, John McCalla-Leacy, discusses the scale of the challenge ahead ESG is a mercurial beast to grapple with at the best of times. Standards and regulation are yet to be consistently drawn up; definitions swing from a governance tool to an all-encompassing by-word for impact investing; and businesses and political leaders have begun [...]
Meet Maimunah Sharif: The Financial World’s Catalyst joining Private Finance and Public Projects to change Climate Action at COP28 and Beyond December 2, 2023 As the curtains closed on World Cities Day and the stage set for COP28, one figure stands at the intersection of urban development and climate change – Maimunah Mohd Sharif. The Executive Director of UN-Habitat has not only shaped the discourse at these crucial forums but also emerged as a pivotal influence in driving the [...]
Slashing artworks won’t help the climate fight as much as the oil firms will December 1, 2022 Stop using oil or the Vermeer gets it. That’s the message from our friends at Just Stop Oil, who have somehow transmuted irritation at the use of fossil fuels to anger at the works of the Dutch masters. Yesterday the group said they were set to “escalate” their activity from attaching themselves to artworks to [...]
Renewable boom eases global emissions, reveals leading climate body October 19, 2022 Global emissions are only expected to grow by under one per cent this year thanks to a renewable boom, according to the IEA.
Andrew Bailey and Jerome Powell play down central banks’ climate change role January 10, 2023 Andrew Bailey and Jerome Powell, two of globe’s top rate setters, have today said central banks should only have a limited role in tackling climate change. The chiefs of the Bank of England and US Federal Reserve, speaking at a summit hosted by the Swedish central bank, the first in the world, played down their [...]
COP27 blog: what next for climate change? July 29, 2022 With just over 100 days to go until the UN climate summit, we kick off our running blog with a COP26 recap and a look at what’s next. The United Nations’ climate conference COP27 is set to take place in Egypt this November. Lisa Sizeland in Schroders’ global content team has summarised what COP27 is and why it [...]
UK risks missing energy goals due to poor investment climate, industry body warns February 20, 2023 Britain’s climate targets and energy security goals are at risk from its poor investment environment, warns Energy UK.
Our climate guilt is a weapon for fraudsters promising to help us help the environment November 25, 2022 Fraud moves with the times. This summer we experienced more sweltering heatwaves and droughts. Coupled with this month’s Cop27, climate change is again a regular feature in our daily news intake. While others saw a rise in phishing attempts and cost-of-living based scams, we’ve seen climate fraud cases grow exponentially, now involving millions of pounds [...]