Analysis

  • Lessons from the Covid-19 crisis - Part one

    19 May 2020

    In the first of this two-part series, Hervé Duteil draws on three sustainability foresights offered by the Covid-19 pandemic crisis. This article explores the future we want, the future we fear, and the future we create

  • Scaling up climate finance in Asia-Pacific through regional cooperation

    18 May 2020

    Developing the region's capital markets would help it address the climate challenge, argues Ajeya Bandyopadhyay

  • A call for transparency in climate risk analysis

    13 May 2020

    Collaboration and a move away from black box methodologies are needed if investors are to have the right tools to manage climate risks, argues Stephen Fitzpatrick

  • Time is ripe for US asset managers to engage oil majors

    11 May 2020

    Domestic asset managers have been largely absent from climate engagement with US oil majors, but the Church Commissioners for England tells Ahren Lester that this could finally be changing.

  • Green bond comment, May 2020: Coronabonds

    06 May 2020

    The raft of issuance in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic is another demonstration of how the bond market can be used to help tackle environmental and social problems, says Peter Cripps

  • Sovereign social bonds to protect lives and livelihoods

    05 May 2020

    An exceptional shock deserves an exceptional response, argues Farah Imrana Hussain

  • The rise of social investing amid COVID-19

    01 May 2020

    Elisabeth Stadler, chief executive of Vienna Insurance Group, has been one of the industry's most long-standing advocates of social investing - the "S" in ESG. As combating COVID-19 heightens the general awareness of socially-minded investing, she discusses the topic with David Walker

  • Oil price crash 'will not derail energy transition'

    30 April 2020

    The writing is on the wall for the oil and gas sector, BNP Paribas Asset Management's climate change research head tells Ahren Lester

  • The response to Covid-19 must be bold, green and social

    29 April 2020

    The recovery response to the Covid-19 pandemic is an unintended opportunity to shift the world to a greener economy, but the social emergency and future social demands cannot be ignored, argues Marcio Viegas

  • What makes a good corona-bond?

    29 April 2020

    Amid the pressing need to rush out Covid-19 bonds, how to uphold best practice, asks Michael Hurley

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