Analysis

• Q&A with HSBC's Daniel Klier

  05 June 2020

  The banking group's global head of sustainable finance talks about the impact of Covid-19, the future of fossil fuel investment, and reveals that the bank has had almost no response to its TCFD report.

  

• Institutional portfolios can be more resilient with Impact

  04 June 2020

  The unexpected stress test of Covid-19 has provided insight into which companies might be more resilient to risks such as climate change, according to Gordon Power

  

• Green bond comment, June 2020: What use is use of proceeds?

  03 June 2020

  Ahead of the Green Bond Principles AGM, Peter Cripps asks whether the 'use of proceeds' format is under threat

  

• The impact of Covid-19 on sustainable finance

  02 June 2020

  Sustainalytics CEO Michael Jantzi argues that social considerations have risen up the agenda as a result of the pandemic, and he does not believe that the 'genie will go back in the bottle'

  

• Lessons from the Covid-19 crisis - Part two

  26 May 2020

  In the first of this two-part series, Hervé Duteil drew on three sustainability foresights offered by the Covid-19 pandemic crisis: the future we want, the future we fear, and the future we create. In this second part, he now explores three enabling mindsets that we must adopt to create the future we want, and where Sustainable Finance has an important role to play

  

• Where is the G in ESG?

  25 May 2020

  Michael Morosi, global equity manager at Mapfre, unwraps the concept of good governance and how his fund makes investment decisions accordingly. Interview by Vincent Huck

  

• Impact in Africa: SMEs' fight for survival amid Covid-19

  22 May 2020

  With the 'missing middle' in sub-Saharan Africa ballooning and many SMEs on life support, Vital Capital has launched a debt facility to help, Nimrod Gerber tells Michael Hurley

  

• ESG indexes increase the focus on data and transparency

  21 May 2020

  Investors increasingly demand ESG and low-carbon indices to benchmark their portfolio. But what are the potential pitfalls, and what are regulators doing about them, ask Gregory Campbell and Daniela Bunea

  

• Commission calls for €20bn/year for biodiversity protection in EU

  21 May 2020

  At least €20 billion ($22 billion) a year is required to protect biodiversity in the European Union (EU) over the next decade, according to the European Commission. It says this will require contributions from EU funds, national governments and private sources of capital.

  

• Valuing water now can prevent another global catastrophe

  20 May 2020

  Investors must learn from Covid-19 and take urgent action to tackle the intertwined climate and water crises, says Kirsten James of Ceres