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  • 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

  • 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

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

    29 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

  • IFC: We need more bankable projects

    15 May 2023

    Climate head Vivek Pathak tells Peter Cripps that the development finance institute is spending a record amount on climate-related activities, but still needs more projects

  • Take ESG ratings with a pinch of salt, says Stewart Investors

    12 May 2023

    Reliance on 'meaningless' ESG ratings could jeopardise the credibility of sustainable finance, Stewart Investors tells Genevieve Redgrave

  • Navigating sustainable finance standards: speaker Q&A

    10 May 2023

    In response to a recent Environmental Finance webinar on sustainable finance standards, we have hand-picked a selection of the audience questions for the panel to answer.

  • ESG-dilutive acquisitions becoming a 'deal-breaker'

    05 May 2023

    M&A deals are no longer just about earnings per share, Trisha Taneja tells Ahren Lester