The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has started a new project exploring how climate-related risk can be better outlined in financial statements.
The Bank of England is undertaking research into voluntary climate-related disclosures of UK financial institutions via machine learning. The research aims to understand asymmetries between firms and investors, look at how disclosure practices differ across firms, and to shed light on the decision of whether to make climate-related reporting mandatory.
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has published a final report on supervisory and regulatory approaches to climate-related risks.
“The target for many of you is to achieve superior risk adjusted returns. For this you need reliable data and decision-making tools that allow you to incorporate emerging risks and opportunities into your portfolio allocation and risk management early on,” says Klaas Knot, Chair of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), in recent remarks to institutional investors.
In an interim report just issued for consultation, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) aims to assist supervisory and regulatory authorities in developing their approaches to monitoring, managing and mitigating stability risks arising from climate change, and to promote consistency across sectors and jurisdictions.
The US National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has announced a new framework requiring insurance companies to report their climate-related risks, in alignment with the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
We are still seeing lots of discussion and information on the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposal to introduce mandatory digital climate disclosures.
We were interested to note an addition to the latest semi-annual Trends, Risks and Vulnerabilities Report from the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), which finds a continuing high risk of market corrections.
The European Insurance and Occupational Pension Authority (EIOPA) has launched a consultation on draft application guidance on carrying out assessments of climate change materiality and using climate change scenarios in the Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (ORSA).
If you are interested in learning more about sustainability rules in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region you will find a wealth of useful detail in a recent post from Intercontinental Exchange, titled ‘How Asia-Pacific regulators approach the ‘E’ of ESG.’
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