Analysis

• Green bond comment: Back to work!

  06 September 2017

  The summer holiday is over for the green bond market.

  

• Big in Japan?

  04 September 2017

  Support from the biggest pension fund in the world is helping ESG take off in Japan, write Peter Cripps and Joe Walsh

  

• Tackling climate change in SE Asia

  24 August 2017

  Climate change is a significant threat to the economies of South East Asia. Alexandra Tracy reviews the main challenges, the government responses and the financing required for mitigation and adaptation measures.

  

• ESG can't stand still in a changing world

  23 August 2017

  Technological developments, such as the rise of artificial intelligence, machine learning and the growing risk of cyber attacks, are relevant to ESG, argues Fiona Reynolds

  

• Insurers under fire for underwriting coal industry

  11 August 2017

  Divesting from coal companies while continuing to underwrite them is a 'blind spot' of insurers' climate policies, according to campaigners. Cintia Cheong investigates what four insurers are doing about it

  

• Reflections on the HLEG report

  09 August 2017

  The EU's High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance issued its interim report last month. One of the members of the group, Flavia Micilotta, outlines some of her key takeaways.

  

• Lessons from the Repsol bond

  02 August 2017

  I recently had an interesting chat with a leading green bond underwriter. He wanted to know whether I thought a green bond to finance energy-from-waste would be well received by the market.

  

• US asset owners are waking up to climate change

  31 July 2017

  There is increasing evidence that US investors are factoring climate change into their investment decisions, argues Meg Voorhes

  

• Wanted: UK green bond issuers

  24 July 2017

  As the green bond market continues to break records and investors call for more supply, Hamza Ali asks why there hasn't been more issuance out of the UK

  

• The big debate: A carbon tax or carbon trading?

  19 July 2017

  The Paris Agreement saw governments aim to reduce warming to below 2°C. But is carbon trading or a carbon tax the best policy instrument to reduce emissions?