Analysis

  • Why are data providers flocking to impact? Part three: Trucost

    10 February 2021

    How does Trucost help investors measure and report their impact, Michael Hurley asks

  • Green hijacking: SBI and KfW

    10 February 2021

    The State Bank of India's ESG update flaunted its relationship with KfW to help give it credibility but it failed to mention its plans to finance the Carmichael coal mine, says Ulf Erlandsson

  • Why are data providers flocking to impact? Part two: V.E

    09 February 2021

    How does V.E help investors measure and report their impact, Michael Hurley asks

  • Five principles for building effective green taxonomies

    09 February 2021

    Ian Simm shares some of his learnings from 20 years' experience of creating taxonomies.

  • The year ahead for the voluntary carbon market - action counts

    08 February 2021

    2021 is the time to convert net zero plans into action, argues Vaughan Lindsay

  • Biting the hand that feeds it: Brazilian meat sector's degradation of natural capital

    08 February 2021

    The meat industry is becoming increasingly important for Brazil's economy. But as explored in a new special country report from the Coller FAIRR Protein Producer Index for investors, its degradation of natural capital has the potential to undermine its growth and sovereign risk rating, warns Maria Lettini

  • Why are data providers flocking to impact? Part one: ISS ESG

    08 February 2021

    How does ISS ESG help investors measure and report their impact, Michael Hurley asks

  • Why renewable energy has come of age in 2020

    04 February 2021

    What changed to make renewable energy such an investment success story in 2020, UBP's Mathieu Negre asks

  • Green bond comment, February 2021: Is it time for social bond focused investors to join their green peers?

    03 February 2021
  • Financial analysts applaud insurers' coal exit

    02 February 2021

    In exiting coal, scientific, moral and financial interests align, argues Peter Bosshard