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This report describes how the integration of ESG issues into investment practice and decision making is an increasingly standard part of the regulatory and legal requirements for institutional investors, along with requirements to consider the sustainability-related preferences of their clients and beneficiaries, and to report on how these obligations have been implemented. It also identifies areas where further work is required and reflects on how investors’ duties and obligations may further evolve over time.

Fourteen global insurers worth over USD 3.5 trillion discuss how they manage the risks and opportunities of climate change.

The interviewees provide peers with practical ways to navigate an increasingly complex environment marked by escalating climate risks and regulatory pressure for better disclosure across underwriting and investment portfolios.

The report by ShareAction/AODP, called ‘Insuring a low-carbon future: A practical guide for insurers on managing climate-related risks and opportunities’, explores current leading practice, identifies common barriers, and presents a framework of industry-tested building blocks relevant for other insurers of all types. It also offers wider recommendations for policymakers, customers, insurers and their investors to help drive the industry towards aligning with a successful low-carbon and climate-resilient transition.

This report offers aggregate analysis of the responses to the PRI climate change indicators, over 200 investor climate transparency reports and, for the first time, anonymised interpretation of the quality of investor reporting over an ascending staircase of four steps: not reported, responsive, responsible and strategic (with the latter being the most advanced).

This report reviews existing approaches developed by eight service providers to analyze physical climate risks at financial institutions. This includes detailed analysis of the approaches in a common framework, and discussion of crucial aspects such as the outputs; the perimeter of analysis; the data sources and their granularity; the strategies to analyze impacts; the use of forward-looking analysis. It is based on information that the service providers shared with authors and accepted to disclose in Annex 3.

I4CE carried out this review in the frame of the ClimINVEST European project.

In this policy brief, and based on three ongoing research projects on climate finance, I4CE takes stock of the application of article 173-VI and of its implications for the evolution of climate reporting practices and investment management. Drawing on this, I4CE makes recommendations to improve its impact at the French level. It is hoped that these recommendations will also be useful in the debate at the European Union level, while negotiations on a future “European article 173” are underway.

This report identifies the principal areas and issues to be addressed by both public and private financial institutions in the process of mainstreaming climate change and supporting the low-carbon, climate-resilient (LCCR) economy. It is based principally on a desk review and the experience of public development finance institutions and in depth case studies that I4CE has conducted. This report’s focus on DFIs as they have in some cases well over a decade of experience on addressing climate-related issues in their policies and analysis of individual projects.

Financial institutions are increasingly prioritizing climate-related risks and opportunities as part of their financial planning and budding climate strategies.

The TCFD outlines recommendations to manage climate-related risks and opportunities, including the application of internal carbon pricing in scenario analysis, which banks can incorporate into investment decisions across their portfolios.

Internal carbon pricing has emerged as a critical forward-looking metric that can help organizations manage climate-related transition risks and opportunities.

This paper seeks to explore the question of adaptive capacity of companies to financial risks that may arise in the context of the transition to a low-carbon economy.

This portal is intended to serve a community of Geographic Information Systems users interested in climate change. The free datasets of climate change projections can be downloaded as a shapefile, a text file, or as an image. Many 2D variables from modeled projected climate are available for the atmosphere and land surface.

These guidelines seek to advance a common approach to corporate water disclosure that addresses the complexity and local nature of water resources. Changes to water supply is a potential physical risk associated with climate change.

This technical and macro-economic study focuses on light duty vehicles – cars and vans – and the economic impact of the transition to low-carbon vehicles.

The head of planning for a Fortune 500 consumer products company summarizes the lessons managers must master for successful scenario planning in diversified companies.