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This event will take place in New York during Climate Week. Climate change already impacts how the world around us functions, and it will increasingly continue to do so well into the future.  Successful organizations will design programs and products, build cities and infrastructure, and run businesses and institutions with an eye toward planning and preparing for prospective and likely changes to climate norms.  Doing so requires forward-thinking organizations to re-evaluate governance, job descriptions, performance expectations and training requirements. ACCO and Baruch College invite public/private sector executives, officials and senior managers to a special Climate Week event featuring institutions that have been developing and implementing solutions to build institutional capacity for sound climate change.

This event will take place in New York during Climate Week NYC. The Sustainable investment forum will be hosted by Climate Action. Building on the success of the 2017 edition, the Forum held in partnership with UNEP-FI will welcome over 300 attendees representing asset owners and managers, commercial banks, development institutions, and national policy makers. A dynamic mix of panel discussions, insight presentations, case studies and enhanced networking opportunities will build knowledge and foster collaboration on how best to accelerate sustainable investment.

EY and the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) will host this workshop during Climate Week NYC to receive practical guidance on how to deliver on the TCFD requirements.

At the Insurance & Climate Risk conference we will look at the disruptive cascade effect of physical environmental risks and their impact on insurance risk as well as the threats and opportunities for investment, risk, actuarial and underwriting teams to consider in light to the adverse impacts of climate change.

In this post on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, Professor Cynthia Williams and Ellie Mulholland from the Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative argue that avoid the risk of inadequate disclosures which capture the attention of regulators and potential litigants, companies should be disclosing in accordance with the TCFD recommendations.

These two webinars discuss the results of a collaboration between sixteen of the world’s leading banks with UN Environment Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), and Acclimatise, which resulted in the new report “Navigating A New Climate”. The banks set out to develop and test a widely applicable scenario-based approach for estimating the impact of climate change on their corporate lending portfolios as recommended by the Recommendations of the TCFD. The webinar focussed on the physical-related risk and opportunities, which is the risk resulting from climate variability, extreme events and longer-term shifts in climate patterns, and constitutes the second in a two-part series publishing both the physical risk and transition risk assessment methodologies developed through the Working Group’s collaboration.

What do Canadian organizations think about the TCFD recommendations? Watch this series of video interviews to understand how Canadian investors and companies are embracing enhanced climate change disclosure.

This report outlines key findings from a Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada) study of climate-related disclosures provided by TSX-listed companies in their securities filings.

In the data brief, Datamaran compares the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) financial services signatories to other (non-financial services) sector signatories and explores how they disclose on climate change related risks in their annual financial reports. The brief reveals a gap between the two. Twice as many non-financial services signatories report on climate change with a high emphasis compared to financial services.

In his presentation to the Sun Valley Forum on August 2, 2018, James McMahon explained how in a rapidly changing world, innovators and funders can work to ensure resilience. James discusses how big data, design innovation and new business and finance models can make our communities affordable, healthy and resilient. You can watch the full presentation below.

Building on the Investor primer to scenario analysis, and the application of the method on utilities, automotive and the steel sector, this report provides a case study on the cement sector. The report demonstrates the financial impact of two climate scenarios and two strategic choices on three companies (CRH, HeidelbergCement and LafargeHolcim) for six selected countries. Insights are provided in company engagement and financial performance with their regional and technology contributors. Read all reports in this series at http://co-firm.com/en/publikationen/.

This report is the last in a series of six which make up Kepler Cheuvreux (KECH) and The CO-Firm’s contribution to the Energy Transition (ET) Risks project (funded by the European Commission). Since the TCFD published its recommendations, there has been a greater emphasis on scenario analysis to assess the opportunities and risks from measures taken to limit global warming. This report brings together the main conclusions from the analysis of how transition risks could impact the financial performance of companies through examples from the utilities, autos, steel and cement sectors. Read all reports in this series at http://co-firm.com/en/publikationen/.