Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Compliance Clarified – a podcast by Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence
Episode: Series 12, Episode 2: Methane and the looming regulatory and reputational risks for Banks, asset owners
Description: In this episode Lindsey Rogerson and Rachel Wolcott, senior editors in London discuss the growing risk – both reputational and regulatory for financial firms invested or lending to methane-intensive corporates. Methane has 28 times the warming effect of CO2. The two main sources of man-made methane are agriculture and fossil fuels, and increasingly lawmakers are pushing responsibility for reigning in emissions onto the financial services firms. Lindsey and Rachel discuss the various regulations that are in place or in train to ensure banks and investment firms are collecting data on the methane intensity of their loan books and po...