World Gold Council news

The World Gold Council has welcomed the International Council on Mining and Metals’ recent statement setting out its position on climate change and reasserting its commitment to mining industry decarbonisation.

The World Gold Council has launched a new report ‘Gold and climate change: Decarbonising investment portfolios’, which looks at gold’s potential impact on the carbon profile of investment portfolios and their alignment with climate targets.

The World Gold Council has announced that its members have committed to reporting their positions and progress on climate-related risks in line with the recommendations of Taskforce for Climate-related Financial Disclosures.

The World Gold Council has recently released new data for May 2021.

The World Gold Council has recently released new data for April 2021.

New data from the World Gold Council shows global gold ETFs lost 107.5 t in March, marking outflows for the fourth month out of five.

Global gold ETFs lost 84.7 t (-US$4.6 billion, -2% AUM) in February, marking outflows for the third time in 4 months, and the seventh worst historical monthly holdings loss, according to the World Gold Council.

According to new World Gold Council data, global gold ETFs saw inflows of 13.8 t (US$1 billion, 0.4%) in January, after two consecutive months of outflows in November and December, which had totalled 148.8 t.

According to new World Gold Council data, in November, gold-backed ETFs and similar products (gold ETFs) recorded their first net outflows in 12 months and second largest monthly outflows ever.

The World Gold Council has launched its ‘Gold and Climate Change: The Energy Transition’ report, which looks at gold mining’s energy transition and climate impacts over the next decade.