Analysis

• Four action areas to help close the gap in nature finance

  01 January 2023

  Financing for the nature crisis will be as critical as the climate crisis and needs urgent attention, argue Soumya Balasubramanya, Elisson Wright and Raffaello Cervigni

  

• The climate crisis demands that investors rethink impact

  30 December 2022

  Investments that simply do "some good" are no longer "good enough", argues Tamar Pashtan

  

• An update on ESG regulation in Japan

  29 December 2022

  The Japanese government published several reports and guidance documents in 2021 and 2022, which provided the first insight into how it intends to address ESG, says Tomoko Fuminaga

  

• A call to action for regulators

  28 December 2022

  With biodiversity loss in freefall, central banks and financial regulators must address the sectors most harmful to both nature and the climate, argues Maud Abdelli

  

• Q&A: Royal London Global Equity Transitions Fund

  27 December 2022

  Bixuan Xu, manager of the newly launched fund, says holdings are picked based on the materiality and credibility of their transition strategies

  

• COP15: A historical moment for biodiversity and corporate disclosure

  23 December 2022

  To make the 'Paris agreement for nature' a success, countries should waste no time in making biodiversity reporting legally mandatory, argues CDP's Mirjam Wolfrum

  

• Liquidity is not a reason to avoid green bonds

  22 December 2022

  Despite lower trading volumes, there are no additional transaction costs for green bonds investment - meaning lingering liquidity concern is no reason for investors to avoid green bonds, Axa IM's Johann Plé tells Ahren Lester

  

• Green bond comment: If you can't do the time, don't do the crime

  21 December 2022

  When sovereigns issue 'use of proceeds bonds', they really ought to follow up with impact reports, argues Peter Cripps

  

• Carbon markets can help provide nature-based solutions

  21 December 2022

  The US Nature Based Solutions roadmap suggests finance through private measures but misses an opportunity to fully utilise the voluntary carbon market, argues Torrey Sanseverino

  

• Addressing the adaptation finance gap

  20 December 2022

  The costs associated with climate change are already here and rising fast. A more granular picture of physical climate risk and its economic impact should be used to scale adaption finance today, argues Florian Gallo