Analysis

  • The 'green discount' in emerging countries

    07 December 2022

    Massive population growth needs to be met with drastically scaled up climate finance in developing countries, writes Nakul Zaveri

  • COP15: What financial institutions want

    06 December 2022

    Before the COP15 biodiversity conference opens this week, Thomas Cox rounds up what financial experts expect from the event

  • Biodiversity credits - the next big environmental market?

    05 December 2022

    Biodiversity credits are potentially a powerful financial tool for boosting nature, but could be as controversial as carbon credits, Thomas Cox writes

  • Q&A: IOSCO and the carbon markets

    02 December 2022

    Rostin Behnam and Verena Ross answer questions about why it has issued two reports on the carbon markets

  • How public-private finance could be a tipping point for planetary action

    01 December 2022

    A 'loss and damage' fund agreed at COP27 should be the precursor for more efficient use of blended finance to support developing countries, argues Pradeep Kurukulasuriya

  • Biodiversity: why investors should care

    30 November 2022

    An agreement on a biodiversity framework at COP15 next month could help direct private financial investment, writes Steve Freedman

  • Comment: Are SLBs correctly pricing transition risk?

    29 November 2022

    Is transition risk really being priced in effectively by fixed income markets? Sustainability-linked bonds provide some useful insights into how it is not, Ahren Lester argues

  • Q&A: The evolution of ESG data and regulation

    28 November 2022

    In an increasingly complicated market, the cost of compliance with ESG regulations will increase, but the cost of litigation could be even higher, say Paul Watchman and Thomas Harding

  • Exclusive interview with new CBI chair

    25 November 2022

    New chair Doris Honold tells Ahren Lester the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) should focus on "replicating and innovating" to accelerate the scaling of the sustainable bond market

  • Leadership does not equal GFANZ

    23 November 2022

    There has been little evidence of leadership or reduction of fossil fuel financing in the giant coalition of investors and banks, argues Michael Northrop

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