The Big Picture: What were the biggest stories from April?

Recapping the top stories

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HM Treasury has launched the UK Transition Plan Taskforce in order to ‘develop the gold standard’ for climate transition plans.

Led by a steering group co-chaired by Economic Secretary to the Treasury John Glen and CEO of Aviva Amanda Blanc, the taskforce is developing a regime which will require financial institutions and listed companies to create "rigorous and robust transition plans". Elon Musk has (almost) bought Twitter and the Tesla CEO continues to make headlines as he lays out a variety of suggestions for the platform, which recommended his offer to shareholders. And the Financial Conduct Authority has finalised rules that will mandate listed companies to report on their diversity at board and executi...

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