Analysis

  • Comment: Why impact is the word of the moment

    21 April 2017

    Measuring impact is increasingly a preoccupation of investors in the environmental, social and governance (ESG) space.

  • Q&A with Paul Byrne on QBE Insurance's inaugural green bond

    20 April 2017

    QBE Insurance Group is gearing up to issue the sector's first green bond, Paul Byrne its group treasurer speaks to Environmental Finance exclusively

  • Green Sukuk - bonding Shari'ah and the environment

    20 April 2017

    Green Sukuk could potentially satisfy demand from a broad spectrum of investors, but there are challenges to be overcome, say Tallat Hussain, Debashis Dey and Mindy Hauman

  • Introducing the Principles for Positive Impact Finance

    19 April 2017

    The Principles have been designed to help meet the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals. But how will they be implemented? Peter Cripps reports

  • Investors start to weigh water risks

    18 April 2017

    Investor interest in corporate water risk is increasing fast. A range of tools and services are being developed to help companies respond. Graham Cooper reports

  • Insurers' strategic responses to climate change

    11 April 2017

    The third and final part of this series of features about the insurance sector looks at group level responses to climate change. Peter Cripps reports

  • Green bond comment, March 2017

    05 April 2017

    The rising tide of green bond funds is helping drive the market to new records, says Hamza Ali

  • Scaling up the energy efficiency market

    03 April 2017

    Meeting the EU's ambitious 2030 target for energy efficiency improvements will require more private finance, better data and standardisation, reports Peter Cripps

  • Shareholders to march on AGM season buoyed by Paris & TCFD

    31 March 2017

    With more than 100 environmental shareholder resolutions already filed, it is financial firms as well as the oil & gas majors that are in the firing line, reports Joe Walsh

  • How to eliminate child labour from the battery business

    29 March 2017

    A multi-stakeholder collaboration is needed to stamp out the use of child labour in the mining of cobalt for lithium-ion batteries, says Benedikt Sobotka.