Analysis

• Green bond comment: BIS backing signals market's maturity

  02 October 2019

  The launch of a green bond fund by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), on 16 September, marks a new milestone on the market's long march to maturity.

  

• Insurance and Climate Risk Americas 2019

  30 September 2019

  Delegates at Environmental Finance’s Insurance and Climate Risk Americas conference in New York heard how climate-related legislation is racing up the agenda in the US, Michael Hurley reports

  

• A Canadian take on sustainability

  26 September 2019

  Canada's resource-intensive economy can be a sustainability transition model for others, Tiff Macklem, chair of Canada's Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance, tells Michael Hurley

  

• Q&A with California State Treasurer Fiona Ma

  25 September 2019

  Ahead of the Green Bonds California conference, the Treasurer explains why green bonds are a key part of her strategy for the state's finances

  

• Spurring sustainable investments with capital charges

  23 September 2019

  As sustainability makes its way into regulation, the question of capital charges punishing 'brown' investments or incentivising 'green' investments has come to the fore. While regulators are asking for risk-based evidence, stakeholders are not all in agreement on how to proceed. Vincent Huck reports

  

• Monoline-wrapped renewables project financing could be a game-changer

  20 September 2019

  The application of insurance-wrapped debt to renewable-energy project financing is likely to emerge as a valuable addition to the green capital markets toolkit, writes Keith Mullin

  

• Setting the benchmark for sustainable banking

  18 September 2019

  The Principles for Responsible Banking are due to be launched this month. Could they be a game-changer for the sector, Michael Hurley asks

  

• Sustainable finance: it's all about transition! Part two

  13 September 2019

  In the second of this two-part series, Hervé P. Duteil explores the concept of Transition Finance and its limits, and proposes a non-prescriptive framework to start thinking about transition bonds (and loans)

  

• Growing the NY Green Bank

  13 September 2019

  NY Green Bank's Alfred Griffin will deliver a keynote address at next week’s ESG in Fixed Income conference, featuring Green Bonds Americas. He tells Michael Hurley about the bank's next moves

  

• Rising to the challenge

  13 September 2019

  While the mandatory carbon markets await new rules, the voluntary market remains buoyant and is pushing into new areas. Katie Kouchakji talks to this year's winners of our Voluntary Carbon Market Rankings to find out what's cooking.