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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 paper defines suggested new standard ESG and integrated ratios and notes. Indicators were selected through a combination of the recently published ESG reporting guidelines from the London Stock Exchange, incl. FTSE Russell’s recommendations of generic indicators and the Nasdaq Nordic & Baltic, combined with the research results from a study that was performed in 2016 for UNCTAD/ISAR.

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 guidance document provides guidance to asset owners on how they can integrate climate-related financial risk and align portfolios with the Paris Agreement.

The paper published by the OECD presents the findings of an international stock-taking of the regulatory frameworks that apply to institutional investment in different jurisdictions and how these frameworks are interpreted by institutional investors in terms of their ability or responsibility to integrate ESG factors in their governance processes.

This report published by the OECD and CDSB takes stock of how mandatory climate change reporting schemes in G20 countries has changed since COP21. This is an update of the "Climate change disclosure in G20 countries" report published in 2015.

This standard states the principles to be applied to group management reports and then addresses reporting elements including fundamental information about the group, the economic position, the internal control and risk management system, risk reporting on the use of financial instruments, the consolidated corporate governance statement, and the responsibility statement.

The “U.S. Renewable Energy Map: A Guide for Corporate Buyers” is an interactive map that presents the renewable energy purchasing options offered to large-scale buyers by electric utilities in each state across the United States. The map is designed for commercial and industrial (C&I) energy buyers seeking information on opportunities to purchase large-scale renewable energy from their utility.