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  • Solvency II sustainability amendments "a missed opportunity", campaigners say

    19 July 2023

    According to advocacy groups, despite new requirements around transition planning

  • Group of 14 organisations call for integration of climate-related risk in Solvency II

    11 July 2022

    Transition plans should be "complemented by robust capital requirements"

  • Finance Watch calls for net-zero regulation

    30 June 2022

    The journey is as important than the goal, if not more so, a CIO replies

  • A 100% charge on fossil fuels investments - capital punishment, or capital idea?

    04 November 2021

    More than 150 academics, economists and think-tanks are advocating a 100% capital charge on backing expanding and seeking fossil fuel reserves. Finance Watch, co-ordinator of an open letter explaining it, spoke with David Walker

  • Solvency II 2020 review: are green capital charges inimical to profitability?

    30 January 2020

    Finding ways to channel institutional investors' capital towards climate change-mitigating projects has become a priority. The European Commission has launched a review of its insurance regulation with a conference in Brussels. There, the question of green supporting capital charges was unavoidable. Vincent Huck reports