The Chartered Insurance Institute has published a Green Finance Companion Guide that supports and extends its Code of Ethics.

A new Treasury Committee report on the future of green finance has called on the government and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to consider climate labelling for financial products to tackle “greenwashing”.

In a speech last week the FCA’s Christopher Woolard outlined the FCA’s role in mitigating damage to asset management and financial services by climate change.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond has made a pledge to investment professionals that the “ecosystem of prosperity” would be retained after Brexit.