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Government of Canada: Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions
April 12, 2021 Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Dear OSFI Working Group, RE: Navigating Uncertainty in Climate Change: Consultation Response Corporate Knights and…
How to Get Started with Climate Scenario Analysis
Climate scenario analysis is a crucial tool for informing your organization’s strategic planning for organizational climate impacts. As useful as it is, it is also…
Researchers set an NLP model loose on TCFD disclosures. It found scant evidence of useful climate information
ETH Zurich’s ‘ClimateBERT’ discovered that companies may be guilty of “cheap talk and cherry-picking” It’s boom time for corporate climate disclosures — or so it…
Major Investors are Calling for TCFD
Investor demand for companies to report in alignment with the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) framework is rapidly growing. TCFD adoption is largely…
No charge: industry groups sharpen opposition to prudential climate rules
No doubt about it — there’s been an awakening. US financial watchdogs largely ignored climate risks these past four years (with some notable exceptions). Now,…
Initiating the Carbon Footprint Assessment of an Investment Portfolio
Role of Financial Institutions in Achieving Net-Zero 2020 was a significant year where commitments around “net-zero targets” gathered momentum. Announcements were made across the board,…
Intro to Scenario Analysis: What is it & How is it Helpful?
There’s a rapidly growing consensus among top global business leaders that the impacts of climate change pose a sizable financial risk in the short- and…
Little banks, big issues: why climate disclosure challenges Europe’s minnows
Resource constraints and a lack of incentives are two obstacles. But small lenders shouldn’t let these stymie their efforts As scorecards go, it was dismal….
Canada Commits to Net-Zero in New Legislation
Risk management, a national strategy and plan, oversight and governance, transparent metrics and targets – Canada now has a proposed legal framework for meeting our…
Unite or die: the UN Principles for Responsible Banking one year on
Toothless talking shop or shadow standard-setter? On September 22, 2019, 132 banks came together to launch the UN Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB). The initiative,…