Analysis

• Green bond fund assets reach $25bn

  17 March 2022

  Despite challenging market conditions, total assets in green bond funds hit $25 billion at the end of 2021. Ahren Lester reports

  

• Impact-washing demands safeguards

  17 March 2022

  Safeguards against false claims of positive impact are necessary to protect the market, writes Alberto Monzonis

  

• Infrastructure key to hitting net-zero

  15 March 2022

  Sustainable infrastructure investments are growing, but not quickly enough, Henri Blas tells Genevieve Redgrave

  

• Impact investing - what's the trade-off?

  15 March 2022

  Investing to advance the UN SDGs involves trade-offs - but tools to minimise these are in development, writes Sebnem Sener

  

• Pictet Water bursts through $10bn mark

  14 March 2022

  Boring is good, the water fund's portfolio manager tells Thomas Cox

  

• Great expectations

  10 March 2022

  The financial industry isn't going to save the planet - but it has a role to play, says Hans Stoter

  

• Q&A with IFC's Pushkala Ratan

  10 March 2022

  IFC's senior climate finance specialist for Asia spoke to Environmental Finance following the launch of its Guidelines for Blue Finance

  

• Food & land systems - the secret weapon in the war on climate

  09 March 2022

  Clean energy is not enough to get the world to 1.5֯ C. Mass reforestation and linking agriculture with carbon pricing are critical to emissions reduction, argues Tanya Khotin

  

• Comment: The double materiality of gender diversity

  08 March 2022

  The same way climate change won't be curbed with recycling and paper cups in offices, gender equality won't be achieved just through insurers' HR policies, insurers need to use their investments to have impact. Abbie Wood writes

  

• Insurers begin long countdown to net zero - part two

  07 March 2022

  Some of the world's biggest insurers have joined the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance. But should they still be underwriting fossil fuels, asks Thomas Cox