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This paper looks at how climate policy risk might propagate through the financial system. It develops a network-based climate stress-test methodology and apply it to large Euro Area banks in a ‘green’ and a ‘brown’ scenario.

The article quantifies 2 degree pathways for the aviation and shipping sectors, highlighting the need for mitigation measures to be urgently accelerated.

The purpose of this guidance document is to outline the basis for a collaborative engagement on water risks in the agricultural supply chains of investee companies.

This paper guides the individuals who are now completing due diligence on carbon pricing of behalf of their companies. It has been shaped by input from dozens of such companies, as well as other experts who are implementing carbon pricing programmes within companies and/or advocating for government policies in countries around the world. Experiences and insights from others will help more companies become Carbon Pricing Champions and align with the Business Leadership Criteria on Carbon Pricing set by Caring for Climate and partners.

This report identifies key strategies for effective board engagement that can produce tangible environmental and social impacts based on interviews conducted with dozens of corporate directors, leaders and governance experts. Corporate boards are responsible for overseeing the interests of shareholders in the long-term and have a critical role to play in championing sustainability.

This report discusses some of the most important recent developments and provides the first attempt at quantifying the uptake of carbon asset risk (CAR) assessment and management. In the past few years, CAR has gone from a fringe topic discussed primarily by NGOs to a serious consideration of some of the largest companies in the world.

This report chronicles major shifts in the financial landscape since the launch of the Carbon Asset Risk ("CAR") Initiative, launched in September 2013 by Ceres and the Carbon Tracker Initiative with support from the Global Investor Coalition.

This tool is a free, web-based tool that allows users to estimate emissions for all 15 Scope 3 categories defined in the GHG Protocol Scope 3 Standard regardless of the size or type of company, significantly reducing time needed to estimate scope 3 emissions.

This project provides a framework for investors and policy-makers to translate high-level climate policy goals (e.g., limiting global warming to 2°C) into a benchmark that can inform portfolio allocation targets.

This Water-Energy GHG (WEG) Guidance was developed as a supplemental annex to the GRP for the water sector. WEG intensity metrics measure the GHG footprint of a unit volume of delivered water and provides water suppliers with a reliable, transparent, and clear tool that can be used to communicate WEG intensity information to their customers, policymakers, funders, and the public.

The G20/OECD Principles for Corporate Governance (developed by the OECD in 1999, then updated in 2004 and 2015) have become a globally recognized benchmark for stakeholders worldwide for assessing and improving corporate governance.

This guide sheds light on Bloomberg’s approach to improving transparency in the green bonds market. It outlines the methodology behind the ‘green bond’ tag on the Bloomberg Terminal and shows how to identify and search for ‘labelled’ green bond opportunities. Green bonds are listed as an example of a climate-related opportunity in the TCFD Final Report Annex.