Analysis

  • Weather markets buoyed by renewables in turbulent year

    16 December 2020

    The growth of renewable energy has fundamentally affected approaches to weather risk.This year's Market Rankings winners in the weather derivatives markets speak to Christopher Marchant

  • RECs Covid-19 rally 'shows renewables momentum'

    16 December 2020

    Covid-19 and the US election contributed to a turbulent year for RECs and RINs, winners of this year's annual market rankings tell Michael Hurley

  • Creativity and transparency drives market forward

    16 December 2020

    The cat bond market is closing in on another record year, writes Ahren Lester

  • ESG data: Less is more...

    15 December 2020

    Taxonomies, reporting requirements, and data providers need to take a consistent, common approach, focussing on good rather than great, and embracing less being more, argues Simon Smiles

  • Green strings attached - the EU bailout and the roadmap to 2050

    14 December 2020

    The 'Next Generation EU' bailout fund is a model of green conditionality, and may be the shape of things to come, argues Jason Mitchell

  • Looking ahead to 2021

    11 December 2020

    Peter Cripps assesses some of the key trends in sustainable finance to look out for over the next year

  • Women's Livelihood Bonds: The positive impact of helping women fight the climate crisis

    11 December 2020

    Millions of low-income women in emerging markets could be the most underestimated solution to mitigating climate change, writes Natasha Garcha

  • Missing metrics: climate vs nature

    10 December 2020

    Data on nature-related risks is more complicated than for climate, explains Nicky Chambers

  • Q&A with Sweden's central bank on sustainability and QE

    03 December 2020

    Albina Soultanaeva, deputy head of markets department at Riksbank, answers some questions on its plans to incorporate sustainability considerations into its corporate bond buying programme

  • The race is on to electrify corporate fleets

    03 December 2020

    Electrification increasingly makes economic sense for fleets of corporate vehicles, says Mary Jane McQuillen