Analysis

• Proxy season: Resolutions drive deforestation action

  19 June 2023

  Shareholders have been withdrawing deforestation proposals after companies agree to take action, writes Thomas Cox

  

• The growing importance of social issues for commercial real estate

  16 June 2023

  More investors and developers are considering how real estate can be used to achieve positive social change, Cara Imbrailo writes

  

• Absolute versus intensity targets. Part two

  15 June 2023

  Investors often leave companies to decide which type of target is most appropriate for their business. Genevieve Redgrave reports

  

• Absolute versus intensity targets

  14 June 2023

  Investors are increasingly calling for companies to adopt absolute emissions reductions targets, but intensity targets continue to dominate, at least for now. Genevieve Redgrave reports

  

• How banks facilitate the sustainable transformation in emerging markets

  13 June 2023

  Christian Toben outlines the challenges faced by emerging markets as they transition towards a sustainable economy - and why financial institutions are part of the solution

  

• Collaborative sovereign climate engagement is 'opportunity to be grasped'

  09 June 2023

  After initial success with its Australian pilot, the PRI's Tom Arup tells Ahren Lester its collaborative sovereign engagement initiative is ready to scale up

  

• Good news from Brazil for climate and biodiversity-conscious investors

  08 June 2023

  Brazil continues to face challenges in reversing years of damaging environmental policies and activity, but Luis Lopez Vivas argues that sustainable investors should be ready to seize the opportunities on the horizon

  

• Opinion: The EU's climate benchmarks need to get with the times

  07 June 2023

  The financial industry's thinking on assessing transition has moved on since the EU introduced its climate benchmarks, argues Michael Hurley

  

• Zimbabwe's attack on carbon offsets

  06 June 2023

  The cancelation of carbon offset contracts by the Zimbabwe government could have wider implications for the fragile voluntary carbon market, argue Brad Handler and Morgan Bazilian

  

• A 'mistake' for regulators to homogenise ESG ratings

  05 June 2023

  Regulators risk stifling market innovation by standardising ESG ratings, and instead should focus on improving transparency, ESG Book's Leon Saunders Calvert tells Genevieve Redgrave