Analysis

  • Green Bond Principles tightens 'key' recommendations to reflect market best practice

    10 June 2021

    Three years after the last update, the widely adopted Green Bond Principles has received a raft of updates to bring it in line with the developing best practice in the global sustainable bond market. Ahren Lester reports

  • When sustainability falls victim to its own success

    09 June 2021

    Huge inflows into clean energy ETFs recently caused ructions in equity markets. What are the lessons for investors and companies, asks Patrick Wood Uribe

  • Q&A with David Craig, co-chair of the TNFD

    07 June 2021

    The goal of the TNFD is to ensure that nature-related costs and risks are factored into financial flows, and that money is redirected to be nature positive, Craig tells Michael Hurley

  • Nature goes mainstream - Welcome the TNFD

    04 June 2021

    Today's launch of the TNFD is an important step towards ensuring financial flows are redirected to make a positive contribution to nature, writes Simon Zadek

  • Food systems: Investment risk and opportunity, Part two

    03 June 2021

    Moving to more sustainable food production is necessary to cut GHG emissions and biodiversity loss - but assessing risk and opportunity can be hard, Michael Hurley writes

  • Green bond comment, June 2021: Are oil and gas firms still locked out of the sustainable bond market?

    02 June 2021

    The labelled bond market needs to start helping dirty issuers finance the transition, argues Peter Cripps

  • Food systems: Investment risk and opportunity, Part one

    02 June 2021

    Moving to more sustainable food production is necessary to cut GHG emissions and biodiversity loss - but assessing risk and opportunity can be hard, Michael Hurley writes

  • Data is a key ESG enabler

    31 May 2021

    Data and technology can play a crucial role in the transition towards more sustainable operating models, argues Roberta Marracino

  • Financing at the climate-nature nexus

    27 May 2021

    Nature and climate are scientifically intertwined, but are not the same, argues Simon Zadek

  • How Two Sigma is using data science to target positive workforce impact

    25 May 2021

    A private equity impact fund aims to deploy quantitative analysis to help its portfolio companies forge future-proof jobs, Warren Valdmanis tells Michael Hurley