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January 16th, 2019
As mentioned in my blog in October last year the FCA is consulting on climate change and green finance.
SRI Services plans to respond to this important paper – both by welcoming it and by responding to those questions that fall within our area of expertise.
DP18/8: Climate change and green finance
DEADLINE – 31 JANUARY 2019.
Our view and that of others who share our aims (such as UKSIF and ShareAction) is that this is a hugely important paper and well worth responding.
As such I am interested in speaking with financial services professionals who would like to discuss this consultation either to help inform my response – or to help shape their own.
If you would like to get in contact please contact me on julia@sriServices.co.uk as I would ideally like to bring interested parties together to discuss this in the near future.
Meanwhile here are a few thoughts about what the ‘look and feel’ of my response will be:
London Climate Week event on 28 & 29 June I happily agreed to become involved with a major London Climate Week event run by Reset Connect some time ago. The event is now only two weeks away. I did so mostly because I am always keen to help and encourage intermediaries to learn about climate issues […]
Earlier this week I set out my initial response to HSBC’s head of Responsible Investment – Stuart Kirk’s – extraordinary presentation on climate risk (see blog linked below). In the interest of understanding different points of view – here is a collection of articles and opinions about his speech that we believe are relevant to […]
…and has now been rightly suspended by HSBC. There is so much to say on this story, but let me start by saying I have no desire to ‘bash’ HSBC. Big banks are imperfect and have, in my view, propped up the fossil fuel industry for far too long – but that is not what […]