Govt blocks mandatory climate risk reporting in 'disappointing' response to EAC proposal

Kim Kaveh
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The government has rejected the Environmental Audit Committee's (EAC) proposal to make pension fund climate-related financial disclosures mandatory.

The dismissal was in response to the committee's report - published in June - which called for the government to set a deadline that it expects all listed companies and large asset owners to report...

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