Analysis

• 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

  

• Environmental Finance's Green Bonds Asia conference

  15 June 2018

  Environmental Finance's Green Bonds Asia conference saw the agreement of a deal that could help drive growth in the region, writes Michael Hurley.

  

• How Trump inspired climate action by US companies and cities

  08 June 2018

  Companies and cities across the US have taken on a leadership role in terms of climate change action, since President Trump pulled the country out of the Paris Agreement 12 months ago, says Lance Pierce.

  

• Green bond Comment, June: A win-win product?

  06 June 2018

  Green bond enthusiasts received a sharp 'reality check' last month, when they heard that Hiro Mizuno, chief investment officer of the world's largest pension fund, regards them as a "lose-lose product".

  

• An underwriter's reflections on green bond pricing

  05 June 2018

  There has been much discussion about whether green bonds command a 'greenium', but is it time to look at the argument from a different perspective, asks Jacob Michaelsen

  

• How covered green bonds can help deliver NDCs

  01 June 2018

  A 'prototype' covered green bond has been prepared that could help developing countries meet their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement. Junji Hatano explains.

  

• Climate and SDGs to be focus of French pension fund's new SRI strategy

  28 May 2018

  Climate change is “the biggest risk” to the €36.4 billion ($44 billion) FRR pension fund in coming years, Salwa Boussoukaya-Nasr, chief investment officer of the pension fund, tells Michael Hurley.

  

• World's top insurers stalling on climate change drive

  25 May 2018

  While insurers are increasingly aware of environmental risks which might impact both sides of their balance sheet, new research has found that their investment strategies are not in line with the Paris Agreement. The research was published the same week Royal Dutch Shell held its AGM and shareholders, including some large insurers, were asked to vote on a climate resolution. Did they stand up to the test? Paul Walsh and Vincent Huck report

  

• Australia faces mounting climate policy challenge

  16 May 2018

  Climate policy has long been the subject of bitter political feuds in Australia, leaving the country grappling with policy change every electoral cycle. What does climate action in Australia look like this year? Katie Kouchakji reports

  

• Water: managing risk and embracing opportunity

  10 May 2018

  More than 100 delegates gathered at Environmental Finance's conference on water, hosted by the London Stock Exchange, to discuss an investment opportunity worth about $7.5 trillion, writes Michael Hurley.