Financial crises and wars are taking world leaders’ focus away from climate action, but the younger generation of activists are up to the challenge of putting it back on the global agenda.

The UK’s anti-greenwashing regime has been strengthened as part of the Financial Conduct Authority’s new Sustainability Disclosure Requirements.

The EBRD’s climate strategy head gives us his take on COP28, why he believes the phasing out of fossil fuels is more a discussion about what happens in the 2040s, and why a global carbon price is still a long way off.  

Are standards developed to help banks set net-zero targets and report emissions being watered down?

Fair4All Finance’s report looks at how ethnicity influences access to financial services in the UK.

Taking a ‘do no harm’ approach is not ambitious enough, the AIIB says; rather it is time to redefine nature as infrastructure and transform the investment landscape. 

The Facilitated Emissions Standard intends to minimise delay on climate progress, but the response has been mixed.

Inroads have been made at COP28 on voluntary carbon markets and calls for carbon pricing, but phasing out fossil fuels is still the ‘elephant in the room’.

In the first trade day to be held at COP, trade leaders from the ICC, WTO, Unctad and the ITC came together to highlight the role trade and trade finance can play in the transition to a lower-carbon future. 

Unlocking innovative financing solutions provides the opportunity to decarbonise and electrify HGVs, which could save millions of tonnes in carbon emissions.