Transition
Capital markets bankers are alert to the possibility that growing awareness of the need to transition away from fossil fuels — acknowledged explicitly by all signatories to the Paris Agreement for the first time in the COP26 agreement in Glasgow — could begin to sap the bond market access of oil and gas companies.
French-led push for nuclear and gas puts credibility at stake
Reinsurance and ILS is ‘still in its infancy’ in understanding climate change’s impact on catastrophe risk.
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President Xi Jinping has set out bold plans to decarbonize China’s economy. But most companies and banks, hampered by a lack of top-down regulation, have little idea what ESG is, let alone how to measure and report it. It is a mess – and one that China needs to clear up fast. -
UN secretary-general António Guterres called on the Coalition of Finance Ministers to make Cop26 a success. But they have limited scope to deliver ambition, more to improve implementation
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Schneider Electric's Innovation Summit World Tour 2021 will focus on decarbonisation with the firm saying urgent action is needed to decarbonise the global economy.
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