Archive

  • Disasters and currency risk: implications for development and climate finance

    21 February 2025

    Foreign exchange risk is a development risk, and tackling it should be a core pillar of global efforts to build resilience in disaster-prone economies, write Ulrich Volz, Yuen Lo, Harald Hirschhofer and Callum Thomas

  • Safeguarding the EU's sustainable finance framework is critical for its competitiveness

    21 February 2025

    Efforts to make the EU's sustainable finance regulations work better for everyone are welcome, but investors need high-quality sustainability data and regulatory certainty, write Stephanie Pfeifer, Aleksandra Palinska, and David Atkin

  • Why is it so difficult to raise capital for the world's biggest economic opportunity?

    20 February 2025

    The Clean Growth Fund's Beverley Gower-Jones explains the challenges of raising capital for the next generation of UK climate tech companies. Rob Langston reports

  • EU Omnibus: Simplification and guidance are needed, not deregulation

    19 February 2025

    The EU aims to simplify its sustainability reporting framework - but the right balance needs to be struck, write Jean-Pierre Delvigne, Elodie Valette, Claire Lavarde and Maryne Gouhier.

  • ESG is here to stay!

    18 February 2025

    Now is the time to stay the course on ESG, through a strategic and targeted approach, routed in reliable data for clear, meaningful and factual decision-making, writes Martina Macpherson

  • Driving impact through infrastructure

    17 February 2025

    Philippe Valahu and Callum Thomas explain the role of PIDG's Emerging Africa and Asia Infrastructure Fund

  • Biodiversity funds suffer outflows in 2024

    14 February 2025

    Despite overall assets within the biodiversity fund universe growing in 2024, many established funds suffered from significant outflows.

  • AI's role in climate change: problem or solution?

    13 February 2025

    AI a double-edged sword - it has the potential to refine climate science and optimise renewable energy use but also brings significant environmental costs, write Jannis Bille, Alexander Amato-Cravero and Mika Morissette

  • 'Sovereigns should use ASCOR for SLBs'

    12 February 2025

    The assessment framework could help bring credibility to the nascent market. Ahren Lester reports

  • France Valley betting on carbon market in afforestation strategy

    11 February 2025

    Unlike most strategies that produce carbon credits a new strategy is targeting European sites. Genevieve Redgrave reports