Analysis

• Green Bond Comment, March

  04 April 2018

  At least $28 billion of new green bonds were issued in the first three months of 2018, according to preliminary data from the Environmental Finance Green Bonds Database.

  

• Investors wake up to collective engagement clout

  26 March 2018

  Climate-related resolutions at Exxon and Shell garnered the support of the world's largest investors. Now asset managers and owners are massing together to move entire sectors, writes Michael Hurley.

  

• Changing investors' views on farm animal welfare

  23 March 2018

  Farm animal welfare is increasingly being seen as a material issue for businesses and investors, say Rory Sullivan and Nicky Amos

  

• Climate-related disclosure: a new dawn

  21 March 2018

  Numerous developments are helping to drive improvements in corporate reporting of non-financial issues and to raise investor expectations, says Adams Koshy.

  

• Stimulating green finance in Africa

  14 March 2018

  African countries have the potential to achieve their sustainability objectives through innovative funding of climate-change projects, including green bonds, say Mindy Hauman and Tallat Hussain

  

• Green Bond Comment, February 2018

  07 March 2018

  Sovereign issuers gave a major boost to the green bond market in February, with inaugural issues from Belgium (€4.5 billion) and Indonesia ($1.25 billion) and a repeat issue from Poland (€1.0 billion).

  

• Delivering two-way investor confidence

  01 March 2018

  Do governments need to re-wire their own institutions to play their part in the low carbon investment agenda? asks Kirsty Hamilton

  

• Why investors need to start accounting for natural capital

  23 February 2018

  There is an increasing awareness that natural capital can no longer be taken for granted, and can lead to a better understanding of both risks and opportunities, argues James Hulse

  

• Building transparency in SRI

  19 February 2018

  The recommendations of the HLEG highlighted an urgent need to engage Europe's citizens on sustainable finance. Eurosif's updated Transparency Code should help, argues Flavia Micilotta

  

• Best performing funds of 2017: Pictet Global Environmental Opportunities

  16 February 2018

  A dramatic change in fortunes last year swept Pictet's Global Environmental Opportunities (GEO) fund to the top of Morningstar's table of best performing 'ecology' funds.