Analysis

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

    06 September 2019

    In the first of this two-part series, Hervé P. Duteil explores the question of what transition finance is and identifies three revolutions within it

  • Climate Action – how the bond market can finance the fight

    05 September 2019

    The green bond market and the carbon markets could be combined to help decarbonise the economy, suggests Mark Leahy.

  • Green bond comment September: Are stringent standards a good thing?

    04 September 2019

    Heads were turned when it was recently revealed that just 17% of the market value of bonds contained in the Bloomberg Barclays MSCI Green Bond Index would meet the proposed EU Taxonomy criteria – and thus be eligible to be verified in line with the EU Green Bond Standard (GBS).

  • A proposal for rating unremediated pollution costs of business

    03 September 2019

    A new system could be used to price in externalities, argue Praveen Varma, Mark Gold and Henry Shilling

  • Climate risk management: what about corporate lending?

    26 August 2019

    Financial institutions need to do more, argues Brianna Peterson

  • CPR-CDP fund out to prove value of disclosure

    23 August 2019

    The manager of a ‘first-of-its-kind climate fund’ that could grow to more than €1 billion in size is encouraged by early results, Michael Hurley writes

  • The ESG data files - part four: fixed income data

    21 August 2019

    While the availability of sustainability-related data for fixed income investments is catching up with that for equities, much progress remains to be made, Michael Hurley is told

  • A world under water stress

    15 August 2019

    Water stress increasingly threatens an array of important industries, from agriculture to semiconductors – and investors should take note, says Andrew Harmstone

  • What's next for the European Commission's Sustainable Finance Action Plan?

    12 August 2019

    June was a key month for the Action Plan. Emmanuel Buttin, Maarten Vleeschhouwer and Tomas Vaclavicek give their assessment of the state of play and what will be the next steps.

  • Major US insurer stops investing in or insuring coal

    09 August 2019

    Chubb's decision reflects the increasing risks in the coal sector as a result of efforts to tackle climate change, argues Dave Jones