Analysis

  • How investors can support a circular economy for plastics

    29 July 2021

    New engagement guidance will help investors ask the right questions of companies, argue Rebecca Chapman and Gerald Naber

  • SGX steps up Singapore's sustainability drive

    28 July 2021

    Plans to require TCFD reporting and the launch of a nature-based carbon market are set to boost sustainable investing in Singapore, Herry Cho tells Michael Hurley

  • Governing voluntary carbon markets

    27 July 2021

    Carbon markets are the thin edge of a deep wedge that will see explosive innovation in advancing a broad range of nature-linked offset markets, argues Simon Zadek

  • Rise or fall, energy prices will not stop the momentum towards net zero

    26 July 2021

    The momentum behind decarbonisation and the energy transition is unstoppable, argues Federico Turegano

  • Introducing 'instrumental impact' and 'ultimate ends impact'

    23 July 2021

    Freshfields this week released a report on the legal implications of impact investing, which also sought to introduce new terminology to the investment niche. Peter Cripps reports

  • A UK green taxonomy is overdue, but we must get it right

    21 July 2021

    There are many important details to iron out and greenwashing currently abounds, argues Josh Gregory

  • China ETS trading gets off to strong start

    20 July 2021

    Market excitement and allowance hoarding supported strong carbon prices during the early trading sessions of the nationwide China carbon market - but more is needed for this key but much-delayed climate policy to deliver on its aim, Refinitiv carbon lead analyst Yan Qin tells Ahren Lester

  • Why inflation doesn't need to cost the earth

    16 July 2021

    Easy gains of the past year may have ended - but a resource-efficient investment strategy should continue to gather excess returns, Robbie Parker writes

  • To tackle climate risk, we must tackle nature risk as well

    15 July 2021

    A triad of solutions exists to achieve a joint climate-nature transition, writes Philippe Zaouati

  • Investors use 'up to 100,000 pieces of data' to show EU taxonomy alignment

    14 July 2021

    The sustainability reporting burden imposed by regulation could be lessened in coming years with the development of a free-to-use European database, an Environmental Finance webinar heard. Michael Hurley reports