Environment

Dhiran Dookhi explores techniques for assessing climate change risks associated with asset portfolios and liabilities

Travis Elsum assesses the financial consequences of biodiversity loss

Four actuaries working in insurance, regulation and consulting discuss how and why actuaries must act on climate change

Louise Pryor and Nick Spencer discuss the IFoA’s recent progress on climate-related risk and their work as co-chairs of the Climate-Related Risk Taskforce

Major US insurance companies still have nearly $90bn (£64bn) invested in coal, which is the single biggest contributor to anthropogenic climate change.

Companies worth a total of $856bn (£619bn) in the heavy industry sectors are failing to align their CO2 emissions with the Paris Agreement, analysis by the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) has found.

Tim Boonen discusses the pitfalls of the Euler rule for capital allocation and proposes an alternative

The majority of defined contribution (DC) pension schemes in the UK are not paying proper attention to the risks and opportunities of climate change, the Pensions Regulator (TPR) has warned today.

The world must rethink how it measures economic success to ensure that humanity's demands on nature meet supply, an independent review on global biodiversity has concluded today.

BlackRock – the world's largest asset manager – has today asked all companies to disclose how their business models will be compatible with net-zero emissions by 2050.