Analysis

• Private sector report from the Green Climate Fund

  24 March 2020

  The latest board meeting of the fund was held in Geneva because of the coronavirus. Margaret-Ann Splawn shares her reflections of the meeting

  

• Stimulus packages could give 'green lining' to coronavirus cloud

  23 March 2020

  Governments have an opportunity to use their significant fiscal responses to the coronavirus pandemic to help rather than hinder long-term progress on climate action. Ahren Lester explains.

  

• Comment: Coronavirus and climate change

  19 March 2020

  Covid-19 could cause emissions to fall this year, but it may hinder a crucial COP, says Peter Cripps

  

• Strong performance for green, social and sustainability bond funds in 2019

  16 March 2020

  After a torrid 2018 green, social and sustainability bond funds experienced a stronger performance in 2019, off the back of a rallying fixed income market. But performances were highly variable, reports Ahren Lester.

  

• Explaining the concept of dynamic materiality

  13 March 2020

  What is material today may not be tomorrow, and what is not material today may be tomorrow, argue Thomas Kuh, and Andre Shepley

  

• The Nuveen approach to impact

  11 March 2020

  Rekha Unnithan says Nuveen's years of experience differentiate it from the new kids on the block billion-dollar impact funds, reports Michael Hurley

  

• ESG Data Files, part eight: Infrastructure, continued

  10 March 2020

  As well as considering the ESG credentials of an infrastructure project, investors should also consider resilience. Christopher Marchant reports

  

• Boom time for green bond funds

  04 March 2020

  Green bond funds reported sizeable assets growth in 2019, Ahren Lester explains, as the green bond market benefitted from rising market credibility and the arrival of ubiquitous corporate names.

  

• ESG Data Files, part eight: Infrastructure

  03 March 2020

  With its broad scope from airports to hospitals, wind farms to oil pipelines, assessing ESG data in the infrastructure sphere comes with a wide array of challenges. Christopher Marchant spoke to experts in the sector about the ongoing push for in standardisation and disclosure.

  

• Powering up the energy storage market

  28 February 2020

  Interest in the energy storage market is starting to take off, Ahren Lester explains, despite caution over changing business models continuing to hold back widespread investment.