Analysis

  • ESMA offers 'backdoor' solution to SFDR fund labelling misuse

    23 November 2022

    A major reclassification of self-labelled 'sustainable' funds is likely after ESMA proposes necessary - but complicating - naming guidelines, Anne Schoemaker tells Ahren Lester

  • Investors fear 1.5 may not be alive

    22 November 2022

    Investors are questioning the validity of 1.5°C targets and scenarios after a 'disappointing' COP27, writes Peter Cripps

  • The adaptation imperative

    18 November 2022

    The importance of investment in climate adaptation in developing economies has been demonstrated by impact investors, Maria Teresa Zappia explains

  • Net zero and COP27: are we doing enough?

    16 November 2022

    National plans to get to net zero require greater clarity to ensure energy security and a responsible transition to net zero, writes Tom Williams

  • New insured emissions protocols are a fig leaf for continued fossil fuel expansion

    16 November 2022

    The emissions protocols will allow insurance companies to do business as usual in underwriting the fossil fuel expansion, argues Peter Bosshard

  • Collaborating on climate at COP27

    15 November 2022

    COP27 provides an opportunity to bring the goals of COP26 back into focus, and to set out a path to realise its aspirations, writes Bonnie Wongtrakool

  • COP27: Regulators march on ... and on

    14 November 2022

    Are regulators suffering mission creep at COP27, asks Peter Cripps

  • COP27: 'No better impact investment than coal power phase-out'

    11 November 2022

    COP27 saw discussion about the climate impact potential of managed coal power phase-out schemes, but can these innovative deals be pulled off? Ahren Lester reports

  • COP27: What are the prospects for ITMOs?

    10 November 2022

    Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes are expected to be a feature of the current COP, write Pedro Carvalho and Alexis Massot

  • EU and ISSB's salsa dancing.... In wait of the Tango?

    09 November 2022

    Public announcement of an interoperability framework close but not there yet, Vincent Huck writes