Analysis

  • Lay the foundations before building: ISSB standards as the Global Baseline

    12 November 2024

    Investors need national regulators to rapidly adopt ISSB standards without removing key concepts or requirements, writes Nathan Fabian

  • COP 29: Will AI be mentioned in the final text?

    11 November 2024

    AI, with all its implications for emissions, should be hotly debated in Baku and have a significant presence in the final agreement, argues Mathieu Nègre

  • Climate risks threaten the insurance model

    08 November 2024

    As insurers' current claims management model is not sustainable, it is imperative to increase investments in the energy transition to guarantee the very survival of the insurance model, writes Guillaume Abel

  • Comment: Trump comeback means age of US sustainable bond 'greenwhispering' to persist

    06 November 2024

    The market for sustainable debt market in the US is set to remain sluggish in the wake of today's election result, writes Ahren Lester

  • Q&A with TNFD's David Craig

    05 November 2024

    The co-chair of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures talks to Peter Cripps about why the organisation is consulting on an open-access nature data 'facility'

  • Global Biodiversity Framework 'in jeopardy' after COP16 finance failure

    04 November 2024

    The COP16 biodiversity summit has failed to reach agreement on crucial issues relating to finance, leaving delivery of the landmark Global Biodiversity Framework agreed two years ago "in jeopardy".

  • Facing the antimicrobial resistance threat

    04 November 2024

    The involvement of investors is essential to addressing the scale and threat of the crisis, writes Emma Berntman

  • European Leaders at COP16 are Helping Protect Indigenous Lands

    01 November 2024

    Protecting 30% of the Earth should not mean expelling Indigenous Peoples and local communities from their land, write Dr. James C. Deutsch and Dr. Viviana Figueroa

  • From COP to coop

    01 November 2024

    While COP16 is important, it is also worth paying attention to a bond issue from a UK chicken producer, write Ulf Erlandsson and Trisha Hutchinson

  • Comment: Financial grievances weigh on COP16

    01 November 2024

    The rift between the Global South and the Global North was inescapable at the biodiversity summit and is hindering progress, writes Peter Cripps.