Climate Change and Sustainability

Tackling climate change and creating a sustainable future for our planet and society represents the greatest challenge, and opportunity, facing humanity.

To bring shared value between stakeholders, system-wide change and collaboration is needed.

The financial services industry plays a central role in this, by shifting capital to align with the climate and sustainability opportunities and risks impacting society.

Businesses must make decisions based on the environmental and social factors that truly matter to achieve a pathway of sustainable growth and facilitate a just transition.

As a global leader on the energy transition, we will help you navigate the complex world of climate change and sustainability to deliver your net zero ambitions and drive positive impact.

Our Insights

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Financial Services Climate & Sustainability Trailblazers Podcast

This podcast explores society’s role in achieving net zero, the opportunities associated with climate change and sustainability and how to navigate the risks.

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What can banks learn from the 2022 climate disclosures?

As the 2022 climate reporting cycle gets underway for the UK banks, Baringa has performed a benchmarking exercise and extracted the key themes and insights that are appearing.

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Building your climate capabilities: an urgent priority for banks

Firms must build lasting climate capability across their operations and management needs to make this one of their top priorities.

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A deeper understanding of your clients' transition plans can create commercial benefits

You can meet your firm’s own net zero commitments and better navigate the risks and opportunities that lie ahead.

Explore Climate Risk

ESG and Sustainability Insights

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TNFD: Are you prepared for biodiversity reporting?

With the new TNFD draft disclosure metrics, we look at what nature-related information banks have included in their 2022 reporting.

Overcoming greenhushing: greenwashing risks in sustainability-linked loans

It is becoming increasingly clear that the transition to a more sustainable, lower-carbon society is not happening fast enough.

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Why the Consumer Duty will empower firms to combat greenwashing

What are the regulator’s intended outcomes from SDR and how are they linked to the Consumer Duty?

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Net Zero Insights

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Baringa and iCI’s webinar series: Decarbonising portfolio companies Scope 3 emissions

We've partnered with the Initiative Climat International’s (iCI) Scope 3 Decarbonisation Working Group to deliver a series of educational webinars on Scope 3 emissions.

Moving from intent to action: the inflection point for financial services in the climate transition

Net zero targets are set. Strategies are in place. Now, to move from intent to action banks must embed climate into every aspect of business as usual.

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The Financial Services challenge: achieving net zero while funding the real economy

The financial system has a vital role on our path to net zero, but it must do so in a balanced way to protect social and economic stability in the real economy.

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