Analysis

  • Brazil's forest finance moment: why companies can't afford to wait

    06 November 2025

    For the first time, significant volumes of high-integrity jurisdictional forest carbon credits are expected to come online, starting in 2026. But will corporate demand keep pace, asks Keith Tuffley

  • COP30: 10 years after Paris - back to square one

    05 November 2025

    The discussion about climate change needs to return to economic reality to help reconnect climate action with people, writes Daniel Klier

  • 'Private credit will supersede private equity in impact investing'

    04 November 2025

    Debt will be the next growth driver of impact investing, Matt Christensen tells Jennifer Forrest

  • Could banks and insurers be about to get their own Omnibus

    03 November 2025

    The EU is in the throes of butchering its ESG reporting regulations - could ESG aspects of prudential rules be next on the chopping block, asks Michael Hurley

  • Are transition bonds ready for a new dawn?

    31 October 2025

    With updated bond market guidance on transition finance expected this week in Japan, are transition bonds finally ready to end their time in the purgatory of being half labelled and half loved, asks Ahren Lester

  • Can the TFFF overcome the paradoxes that hindered REDD+?

    30 October 2025

    It is unclear whether the TFFF will complement or compete with existing REDD+ efforts, writes Renat Heuberger

  • Debut 'methane abatement bond' expected in 2026

    29 October 2025

    AllianceBernstein says there has been 'positive' issuer interest in methane abatement bonds, and US investors appear primed to unlock their impact potential. Ahren Lester reports

  • COP30: How sovereign SLBs can make NDCs 3.0 investable

    28 October 2025

    As countries prepare their next round of Nationally Determined Contributions, the challenge will be to turn ambition into capital flows, write Darius Nassiry and Ina Hoxha

  • TNFD, two years on: difficult but useful

    27 October 2025

    Financial institutions are beginning to integrate findings from TNFD reporting into their products, but tell Genevieve Redgrave that data remains a challenge for more sophisticated reporting

  • Eurazeo shipping fund not blown off-course by IMO carbon tax delay

    24 October 2025

    The International Maritime Organisation's vote to delay a global carbon tax is disappointing but doesn't torpedo the sustainable investment thesis, Guillaume Branco tells Genevieve Redgrave