KNOWLEDGE & INSIGHTS
Expert perspectives on the latest developments across our sectors and services.
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PRA Publishes its Final Updated Supervisory Statement on Managing Climate-Related Risks
The PRA has published a Policy Statement alongside the final text of SS25/5 – Enhancing banks’ and insurers’ approaches to managing climate-related…
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Structuring the Fractionalisation of Commodities – Factors for Consideration
The legal structure that forms the foundation of how the fractionalisation is achieved offers up several alternatives that influence the eventual…
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A Singapore Gold Reference Price – Are You Ready to Trade?
The launch of a physically-settled spot platform by Abaxx Spot in Singapore, that offers a new vault holding structure allowing the owner …
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Adaptation Financing for the Private Sector and the Role of The Insurance Industry
In circumstances where our collective efforts to keep the global temperature rise to 1.5°C are unsuccessful, at a societal level we will have to…
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PRA Publishes Consultation on Updating the Approach of Banks and Insurers to Managing Climate-Related Risks
It is almost ten years since Mark Carney, as then Governor of the Bank of England, gave his well-known "Breaking the tragedy of the horizon" speech…
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What Do COP28 and COP29 Really Tell Us About the Paris Agreement and Net Zero Ambitions?
There is an assumption that a 1.5 degree net zero target is achievable by 2050 if only we did more. The evidence and the reality, based on the…
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EU ETS2 – Testing the Boundaries of Cap and Trade Systems
EU ETS2, the new EU cap-and-trade regime, with monitoring obligations that kicked off in 2024, will soon bring forth surrender obligations for a…
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Sustainable or green commodity products: are they real or a misnomer?
This paper considers what a company may need to consider as part of its development of commodity products that benefit from certain attributes …
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An Introduction to Insetting
As demand from organisations seeking to reduce their value chain emissions grows, suppliers and service providers who are developing insetting …
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An introduction to CORSIA eligible fuels: what are they and why are they relevant for CORSIA?
One of a series on CORSIA (with a focus on the First Phase), providing an introduction to CORSIA Eligible Fuels (CEFs) and …
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Bioenergy series – the evolution of the Brazilian ethanol industry
The latest in our bioenergy series, looking at the evolution of the ethanol industry in Brazil …
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Bulletin
LNG bulletin July 2024
Welcome to the July edition of the LNG bulletin. We are delighted to include four articles, from our offices in Singapore, London and Perth…
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