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  • Real economy and investors' emissions progress diverging, NZAOA says

    31 October 2024

    L&G's Wendy Walford tells Insurance Asset Risk "radical changes" are needed from policymakers and warns of "systemic risk" to asset owners in the absence of a smooth transition

  • Biodiversity: "A twin emergency next to climate change"

    28 July 2022

    As insurers broaden their ESG universe outside of climate, biodiversity is starting to gain momentum in the spotlight.... But why has it taken so long for it to be recognised as a crisis? Abbie Wood asks

  • Extent to which climate change is capitalised in assets and markets is unclear

    25 August 2021

    UNEP FI highlights knowledge gap on climate change impact on real estate value

  • Asian real estate prospects overshadowed by climate risk

    04 March 2020

    Today's real estate opportunities in the Far East might come at a cost tomorrow

  • Insurers share climate risk best practice in UN report

    13 May 2019

    Pilot project reveals the scenarios, models and metrics used by 20 institutional investors to assess and disclose climate risk

  • Insurers support launch of tobacco-free finance pledge

    27 September 2018

    The pledge has 60 founding signatories and 28 supporters

  • Australian and New Zealand financial sectors commit to sustainable finance roadmap

    27 July 2018

    Impact investing has grown from $1.2bn in 2015 to $5.8bn in 2017 according to local impact investing association