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This report by CDP discusses trends in carbon pricing usage including how companies use it and how it supports integration of climate risk into business planning.

This is a recent study by Acclimatise for the IDB’s PROADAPT program, shows that assessing climate change risks and their effects helps businesses better understand their supply chains and strengthen their resilience, and in that process, give them a competitive advantage in the market.

This paper is a briefing note prepared by Acclimatise ahead of a TCFD-led conference on 'Climate Scenarios, Financial Risk and Strategic Planning' in 2017. It provides insight into the role of scenarios in physical risk assessment, including what scenario analysis can and cannot offer without the context of disclosure and as a strategic business-planning tool.

This paper describes the impact of climate risks and opportunities on businesses and argues that if the current momentum, built from the market, is supported by public policies it could help mature the practice faster and lead it to gain significant prominence in a shorter period of time.

This report provides a lens through which the long-term financial impacts of climate change for a portfolio of companies may be measured. Whilst significant change is underway as sectors prepare to transition to a lower-carbon economy, a long-term quantitative risk approach is required to effectively measure the preparedness of individual companies and the rate-of-transition of sectors as a whole.

This piece of research was published by the PRI and global law firm Baker McKenzie as part of a series of country reviews examining how the TCFD integrate into existing regulation and soft law in specific markets. This particular paper looks at the European Union.

This piece of research was published by the PRI and global law firm Baker McKenzie as part of a series of country reviews examining the TCFD integrate into existing regulation and soft law in specific markets. This particular paper looks at France.

This paper explains how IFRS standards can be reused and/or extended to align with TCFD recommendations.

This report shows how through persistent engagement on climate change risks – either via private dialogue or through public challenge using shareholder resolutions, or both – institutional investors are having a major influence on the conduct and board-level decision-making of key oil and gas majors.

The World Energy Outlook (WEO) is published every year by the IEA providing energy-market analysis and projections. It uses a scenario-based approach to highlight the key choices, consequences, and contingencies that lie ahead, and to illustrate how the course of the energy system may be affected by changing some of the key variables.

This report outlines the Environment Agency Pension Fund's climate change investment beliefs, principles and goals and their progress towards them. The report utilizes the scenario analysis developed by Mercer in their study "Investing In a Time of Climate Change" as the primary resource to assess and monitor climate risk.

This report provides the estimated return implications under the four climate scenarios and four climate risk factors, modelled over a 35 year time period, with commentary on the specific implications for OPTrust. The return estimates developed as part of this research apply at the total portfolio, asset class and industry sector levels.