Analysis

  • ESG: complex in a vague sort of way

    13 January 2023

    Amid widespread confusion about ESG and impact, Mike Sebastian offers his thoughts on what asset owners can realistically achieve with their investments

  • Transition to be a key theme for 2023, says ANZ

    11 January 2023

    High-emitting sectors will increasingly come under scrutiny amid the net-zero transition, ANZ's Stella Saris Chow tells Genevieve Redgrave

  • Sustainable debt issuer profile: CDL

    10 January 2023

    CDL's Esther An tells Genevieve Redgrave how sustainable debt has played a key role in its decarbonisation plans

  • Three themes that need to be on the agenda in 2023

    09 January 2023

    Transition, blended finance and adaptation must move up investors' agendas in 2023, writes Peter Cripps

  • Sustainable finance: key themes for regulation and policy in 2023

    06 January 2023

    The year ahead could be dominated by ESG-related regulation and progress on sustainability data initiatives, Michael Hurley writes

  • Lombard Odier's natural capital strategy, two years on

    05 January 2023

    After stellar 2021, the strategy felt the pain in 2022, writes Madeleine Jenkins

  • Asia 'by far the most important region for the climate transition'

    04 January 2023

    Asia has a key role to play in helping combat climate change, a webinar heard. Genevieve Redgrave reports

  • Comment: Green bonds should not make the taxman blue

    03 January 2023

    Sustainable bond issuers can have legitimate reasons for using 'tax havens,' but transparency is essential to avoid the practice tarnishing the market. Ahren Lester writes

  • 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