Analysis

• Lessons from the Nordics

  19 July 2018

  The Nordic countries are in the vanguard of the green bond market, leading the march in areas such as impact reporting. Michael Hurley asks what lessons the rest of the world can learn

  

• Comment: The CDM must not make life harder for developers

  16 July 2018

  New CDM issuance rules penalise developers and discriminate against smaller companies, says Alexis Leroy

  

• Thoughts on green bonds' legal documents

  13 July 2018

  The sustainable finance market should avoid overreacting to extraordinary events and maintain its market-building approach, argues Aaron Franklin

  

• The anatomy of a taxonomy

  11 July 2018

  The European Commission has a highly ambitious target - to develop a taxonomy to define what is green and act as a compass for sustainable finance. But there's a long and rocky road ahead for this controversial initiative, find Nick Roumpis and Peter Cripps

  

• Can the private sector save the Green Climate Fund?

  10 July 2018

  Last week's unproductive board meeting highlights the need for the Green Climate Fund to reform, says Alexandra Tracy

  

• Channelling capital into forest conservation

  06 July 2018

  A significant increase in the level of private finance being channelled into forest conservation is required in order to meet the aims of the Paris Agreement, a roundtable organised by Environmental Finance and Finance for Forests heard. Michael Hurley reports

  

• Fixed Income and ESG, featuring the Green Bonds Europe conference

  02 July 2018

  More than 300 delegates assembled in London to discuss the rapidly growing green and sustainability bond market, and the broader topic of integrating ESG into fixed income.

  

• Big debate: Green bonds - nothing but hot air?

  29 June 2018

  What is the purpose of green bonds? Can they be additional? Stan Dupre and Lars Eibeholm went head-to-head at Environmental Finance's Fixed Income & ESG conference, moderated by Tanguy Claquin

  

• Amundi's early mover

  21 June 2018

  Frédéric Samama has been a key mover in the Portfolio Decarbonisation Coalition, the creation of low-carbon indexes, and now the world's biggest green bond fund. He talks to Peter Cripps

  

• Impact investing or impact washing?

  19 June 2018

  Insurers say they can find financial value in ESG investing, but they have to be wise to investments that don't deliver on their stated goals. And while ESG can mean different things to different stakeholders, a push for standardisation is not always welcome, according to panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's 2018 EMEA conference. Vincent Huck reports