Analysis

• Best performing funds of 2016: KBI Institutional Water Fund A (€)

  02 February 2017

  A strong performance in 2016 is likely to be followed by "another good year" for KBI's Institutional Water Fund A (€), senior portfolio manager Matt Sheldon tells Graham Cooper

  

• Green bond comment January: Vive la France

  01 February 2017

  The green bond market has made a strong start to 2017, with some $10.5 billion of issues having settled in January. This compares with $7.8 billion in January the previous year, according to figures from Environmental Finance's green bond database.

  

• Green growth is the deal of the century. Will the Dealmaker-in-Chief realise it?

  01 February 2017

  If Donald Trump really wants to 'get America winning again', he ought to seize opportunities presented by the transition to a low-carbon economy, argues Fenella Aouane.

  

• Best performing funds of 2016: Impax Environmental Markets (Ireland) Fund

  30 January 2017

  An uptick in investors' interest in environmental-themed equities, following the Paris Agreement, helped make 2016 a 'vintage' year for the Impax Environmental Markets (Ireland) Fund, reports Hamza Ali

  

• Best performing funds of 2016: Vontobel New Power A

  27 January 2017

  In a disappointing year for clean energy funds, Vontobel found a safe harbour in grid infrastructure stocks. Pascal Dudle talks to Joe Walsh.

  

• How to grow the US green bond market

  24 January 2017

  California Treasurer John Chiang conducted a 'listening tour' of the green bond market. A new report reveals the feedback on the state of the market, and the barriers that need to be overcome if it is to fulfil its potential. Peter Cripps reports

  

• Poland turns to auctions to boost renewables capacity

  18 January 2017

  Grzegorz Filipowicz outlines recent changes to Poland's support scheme for renewable energy.

  

• Poland's green bond - Q&A with the Deputy Minister of Finance

  13 January 2017

  Poland last month became the first sovereign green bond issuer, with a €750 million transaction. In this exclusive Q&A, Piotr Nowak explains some of the key points of the issue

  

• Showing leadership in the Canadian dollar green bond market

  11 January 2017

  Ontario is committed to developing the Canadian dollar green bond market, while also enhancing impact reporting, project selection and transparency. Michael Manning explains

  

• A response to the article: 50 Shades of green bonds - and 50 ways of assessing them

  09 January 2017

  A recent feature in Environmental Finance explored the growing number of tools open to investors to help them judge the green credentials of green bonds. In this piece, Peter Ellsworth suggests five essential resources for cutting through the confusion.