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Japan: a land of climate opportunity
29 September 2023Japan has high GHG emissions but its companies provide a compelling energy transition investment opportunity, writes Masayuki Teraguchi
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Innovative small businesses need a bigger role at COPs
28 September 2023The COP process needs to listen to the voices of innovative small businesses if net zero is to be delivered, Jan Lozek writes
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Berkshire Hills: Issuing a sustainable bond is a 'no brainer'
27 September 2023Berkshire Hills hopes its ground-breaking sustainability bond will be followed by others, but the US community bank's Gary Levante tells Ahren Lester the market needs a small and mid-cap 'evolution'
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The importance of developing sustainability reporting standards for the public sector
26 September 2023As the baseline for private sector sustainability reporting is finalized, the public sector has started to build on this to address its own specific needs, writes Ian Carruthers
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Acciona: Impact in the sustainable bond market is very low
25 September 2023Frustrated by the limited impact of sustainable bonds, the Spain-based conglomerate has published an additionality-focused framework it hopes will help transform the market. Ahren Lester reports
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Real economy sustainable bonds: Spotlight on Romania
20 September 2023Guy Richardson looks at the prospects for the sustainable debt issuance from the country's power, agribusiness, and transport sectors
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Nature disclosures 'will become the norm'
18 September 2023The final TNFD recommendations have been released, with a call for immediate adoption, writes Michael Hurley
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S&P Shades of Green: Updated SPO offers more than just 'an extra shade'
18 September 2023The financial research and analysis firm tells Ahren Lester its updated second-party opinion (SPO) methodology is more than just a marriage of the separate S&P and Shades of Green models
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Will today prove a turning point for natural capital?
15 September 2023What is the TNFD's final framework released on Monday expected to say, and will it mark an inflection point for embedding nature in finance, asks Genevieve Redgrave
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The Tortoise and the Hare of sustainable investing
14 September 2023The US is pulling ahead of the EU and UK because of its shorter-term climate fix of subsidies and tax credits, argues Max Griffin
- ESG in Fixed Income Americas 2023: BlackRock: 'transition investments are green'
- Insurance Risk & Capital Americas 2023: Climate change already making some perils 'uninsurable'
- Financial institution SFDR reports fail to explain adverse impacts, regulators say
- Insurance Risk and Capital Americas 2023: US anti-ESG backlash is 'political risk', insurers say
- ESG in Fixed Income Americas 2023: Investors call out their green bond market 'grievances'
- Green bond regulation, SFDR guidance among ESMA's 2024 priorities
- ESG in Fixed Income Americas 2023: Export Development Canada to issue first green bond since 2019
- Australian companies lagging in net-zero targets, says Climate Action 100+
- SME GHG emissions reporting 'disjointed', says Bankers for Net-Zero
- Report reveals top insurers of US coal