Analysis

  • It's time for positive action strategies

    16 November 2020

    Meaningful action urgently needed to clean up the supply-side energy system, argues John Green

  • Head-to-head debate: Transition bonds

    13 November 2020

    Is a transition bond label still needed now that the Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles have been published?

  • Why the Green Climate Fund should embrace carbon markets

    11 November 2020

    Focusing on projects that involve carbon trading could help the GCF boost its pipeline of investments, argues Margaret-Ann Splawn

  • Investment for resilience in a post-Covid world

    10 November 2020

    In advance of the Finance in Common Summit, Margaret Kuhlow argues that we need Public Development Banks to invest in a job-rich recovery that rebuilds for economic, environmental, and social resilience.

  • What does Joe Biden's Presidency mean for responsible investors?

    09 November 2020

    There was no blue wave, but there could yet be a green wave of investment, writes Peter Cripps

  • Impactful real estate's role in the pandemic recovery

    09 November 2020

    Real estate impact funds can help countries 'build back better' from Covid-19, writes Manfredi Catella

  • No one-size-fits-all approach for financing climate transition, says Morgan Stanley

    06 November 2020

    Ahead of Environmental Finance's ESG in Fixed Income Europe 2020 virtual conference next week, speakers reflect on the balance between purity and pragmatism when financing climate transition strategies

  • Carbon emissions data: the good news and the bad

    06 November 2020

    Carbon data may not be what it seems. Transparency is key, argues Ian Stannard

  • WWF: How to improve the EU Sustainable Finance Action Plan

    04 November 2020

    Ahead of Environmental Finance's ESG in Fixed Income Europe 2020 virtual conference next week, Jochen Krimphoff, deputy director of environmental finance at the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), reflects on what the EU Sustainable Finance Action Plan means for the sustainable fixed income market

  • Green bond comment, November: Time is ripe for sovereigns to finally step up

    04 November 2020

    Sovereign green bonds experienced a bumper September, with several new issuers, but Ahren Lester argues other hesitant sovereigns should step-up ahead of COP26 next year to light up this potentially significant market