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  • How banks facilitate the sustainable transformation in emerging markets

    13 June 2023

    Christian Toben outlines the challenges faced by emerging markets as they transition towards a sustainable economy - and why financial institutions are part of the solution

  • Collaborative sovereign climate engagement is 'opportunity to be grasped'

    09 June 2023

    After initial success with its Australian pilot, the PRI's Tom Arup tells Ahren Lester its collaborative sovereign engagement initiative is ready to scale up

  • Good news from Brazil for climate and biodiversity-conscious investors

    08 June 2023

    Brazil continues to face challenges in reversing years of damaging environmental policies and activity, but Luis Lopez Vivas argues that sustainable investors should be ready to seize the opportunities on the horizon

  • Opinion: The EU's climate benchmarks need to get with the times

    07 June 2023

    The financial industry's thinking on assessing transition has moved on since the EU introduced its climate benchmarks, argues Michael Hurley

  • Zimbabwe's attack on carbon offsets

    06 June 2023

    The cancelation of carbon offset contracts by the Zimbabwe government could have wider implications for the fragile voluntary carbon market, argue Brad Handler and Morgan Bazilian

  • A 'mistake' for regulators to homogenise ESG ratings

    05 June 2023

    Regulators risk stifling market innovation by standardising ESG ratings, and instead should focus on improving transparency, ESG Book's Leon Saunders Calvert tells Genevieve Redgrave

  • Electrification: The biggest opportunity in the history of capitalism?

    02 June 2023

    The transition to an electrified energy system constitutes a new industrial revolution, but it is unfolding at the speed of digital revolution, José Lazuen writes.

  • Schroders explains its carbon-offset climate fund

    01 June 2023

    Carbon credits can help get companies over the last mile in their decarbonisation journey, Andy Howard tells Peter Cripps

  • AIB: SLL bond market development would be 'big plus'

    31 May 2023

    After successful green and social bond issuance, the Irish bank is eager for the sustainable bond market to develop an instrument to directly support sustainability-linked loan lending. Ahren Lester reports

  • Paris-aligned benchmarks boom but are they helping the transition? Part two

    30 May 2023

    Asset owners are placing money in Paris-aligned benchmarks at a quickening rate but questioned whether they facilitate the transition. Michael Hurley reports