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Kirk leaves role as HSBC Global Asset Management's global head of sustainable investing after being suspended for recent outspoken comments

Republican Senator Steve Daines writes to HSBC, arguing that focus on climate risk could fuel 2008 style crash

Former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres describes Stuart Kirk's speech last week as 'one of the most irresponsible public statements we have heard in years'

A top HSBC executive may have downplayed the threat posed by climate risks, but the Bank of England's new stress test exercise suggests financial firms' profits would be hit

Senior HSBC executives disavow Stuart Kirk's speech last week, during which he complained that throughout his career there had always been 'some nutjob telling me about the end of the world'

Stuart Kirk's insistence investors do not need to worry about climate risk fundamentally misunderstands both climate change and risk

Experts slam 'totally bizarre' analysis that rejected the idea investors should worry about climate risks

Top executive bemoans that there is always 'some nutjob telling me about the end of the world', but the bank insists his views 'do not reflect the views of HSBC Asset Management nor HSBC Group in any way'

Draft recommendation reportedly criticises bank for failing to provide sufficient context on its continued investments in fossil fuels

Leading shareholders claim successful engagement with bank has secured new commitments to phase down fossil fuel financing and tighten lending policies