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FinCity.Tokyo’s executive director Tokio Morita discusses Tokyo’s role in the evolution of green and transition financing, and the growing Japan-UK collaboration in mobilising finance for a net-zero future.

Bundling linked topics makes engagement smoother and helps avoid unintended consequences, explains Carlota Garcia-Manas, head of climate transition and ESG engagement at Royal London Asset Management.

Asset-level data must be paired with detailed corporate hierarchy and ownership information to reveal the flow of impacts within and between companies, write S&P Global’s Rick Lord, Kuntal Singh and Bob MacKnight.

Morningstar Sustainalytics’ Benjamin Schofield and Alicia White describe the potential impact of SFDR 2.0 proposals on transition funds.

Investors have the information to begin integrating adaptation and resilience into investment decision‑making, writes Royal London Asset Management’s Carlota Garcia Manas, head of climate transition and ESG engagement.

Investors are on a voyage of discovery on physical climate risk, but can make progress using foundations already in place, say Standard Life’s Bruno Gardner and Hetal Patel.

Assessing exposure remains a major headache for the finance industry. Responsible Investor’s Lucy Fitzgeorge-Parker discusses ways to move forward with some of the sector’s leading experts.

Morningstar Sustainalytics’ Bin Dong, lead ESG methodology analyst, explains why sustainability risk is financially material in both US and European equity markets, while being priced through fundamentally different market mechanisms.

Quantifying individual sustainability metrics and translating them into financial projections and impact on the bottom line remains challenging for many businesses. Michel Driessen and Sebastian Schmidt offer an approach.

Amazon’s Tessie Petion and Brandon Oyer discuss how the company approaches water consumption, energy costs and grid impact while scaling its data centre operations.