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The FINANCIAL - Companies with women on their executive and supervisory boards are valued more highly by the stock markets. Investors rate the performance of the few women who climbed to the top of the career ladder in companies without a gender

The FINANCIAL -- Unprecedented corporate engagement on key climate issues including carbon pricing, finance, responsible policy engagement and science-based targets were announced on December 8 at the conclusion of the Caring for Climate (C4C) Business Forum, the official avenue for business at

The FINANCIAL -- The Science Based Targets initiative announced today that 114 companies have now committed to set emissions reduction targets in line with what scientists say is necessary to keep global warming below the dangerous threshold of 2 degrees Celsius.

The FINANCIAL -- An unprecedented number of the world’s leading financial institutions from across the globe have joined the World Bank Group and other multilateral development banks in signing onto new principles to integrate climate change into their financing and operations.

The FINANCIAL -- Eight multilateral development banks on December 3 issued a joint statement, committing to accelerate their efforts to mitigate transport emissions and recognizing the need for more action on the resilience of transport to climate change.  The sector accounts for about

The FINANCIAL -- General Motors has become a signatory of the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate responsibility initiative. GM pledges to support and promote the compact’s 10 principles in the areas of human rights, labor, the environment and anti-corruption.

The FINANCIAL -- Event, co-organised by the EBRD, showcases Bank-financed solar and wind projects in Kazakhstan, EBRD pilot credit line for climate resilience in Tajikistan.

The FINANCIAL -- Six heads of state and government and the leaders of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund on November 30 called on companies and countries to follow up on their ambitions for Paris by putting a price

The FINANCIAL -- The heads of the world’s largest development banks pledged on November 30 to work together to substantially increase climate investments and ensure that development programmes going forward consider climate risks and opportunities.