Analysis

• Driving governance in emerging market infrastructure

  13 April 2020

  Good governance can yield significant ESG outcomes and returns, argues Dean Alborough

  

• Insurance, pandemics and climate change

  10 April 2020

  Insurers have long been aware of the risks of a global pandemic, but have failed to act. They mustn't make the same mistake on climate change, Peter Bosshard writes

  

• Cat modelling awakens to climate change risk

  08 April 2020

  Responsibility for understanding the implications of climate change for insurers has largely fallen on the shoulders of the catastrophe modelling community. They are responding with a more dynamic and multi-faceted view, as Paul Walsh reports

  

• The ESG data files, part nine: Biodiversity - the new frontier

  07 April 2020

  Various initiatives from the financial sector could make this a breakthrough year for biodiversity data, ahead of a hoped-for global agreement on conservation for the next decade. Graham Cooper reports

  

• Social bonds and Covid-19 - The next phase

  07 April 2020

  Social bond issuers have a unique opportunity to do the heavy lifting in the fight against Covid-19, writes Christopher Wigley

  

• 2°II explains its break with Science-Based Targets initiative

  06 April 2020

  A disagreement that caused 2°II to walk away from the initiative boils down to whether it is appropriate to use the term 'science-based' to describe investor decarbonisation targets, writes Christopher Marchant

  

• Sustainable equity funds becoming all-weather investments

  02 April 2020

  The relative outperformance of ESG equity funds during the market correction caused by the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic proves they can be all-weather investments that will appeal to long-term investors, Morningstar's sustainability research head tells Ahren Lester.

  

• Corona and climate change: A new road map?

  31 March 2020

  The Covid-19 pandemic offers sobering lessons on readiness for climate-related disruptions that, unlike the virus, will not respond to quarantine and social distance, argues Paula DiPerna

  

• Green bond comment: April 2020

  27 March 2020

  The IFC and AfDB have demonstrated how the social bond market can help combat the coronavirus pandemic, writes Michael Hurley

  

• Transition to a climate bond rating system

  26 March 2020

  A new climate rating system is needed for all bonds, argues Michael Eckhart one of the original authors of the Green Bond Principles