Analysis

• Stranded assets alert

  17 June 2013

  Nicholas Stern has warned that many oil and gas and mining companies may be overvalued, in a 'bubble' that would threaten the security of global financial markets. Peter Cripps and Katie Kouchakji report

• Reporting: the next generation

  13 June 2013

  The Global Reporting Initiative has launched the fourth generation of its sustainability reporting guidelines. What will be the impact on companies and investors, asks Jennifer Iansen-Rogers.

• People moves summer 2013

  11 June 2013

  The latest appointments in the environmental markets.

• Can the EU's 'zombie' carbon market be saved?

  06 June 2013

  The world's largest carbon market has been rendered a "zombie". What are the prospects for recovery in the EU Emissions Trading System? Elza Holmstedt Pell reports

• Burmese opportunities

  04 June 2013

  As Myanmar opens for foreign investment, the opportunity to pursue a sustainable development pathway is within reach – if the climate finance flows can be achieved. Joshua Speckman looks at the opportunities for investors, and finds they are abundant

• Playing the long game

  03 June 2013

  ING's Stephen Hibbert talks to Peter Cripps about the enormous potential of energy efficiency, and how he is positioning the bank to take full advantage when the market finally scales up.

• New markets tempt investors into timber

  23 May 2013

  Forestry is growing in favour as an asset class for institutional investors but the market is being restructured by economic and demographic changes and growing demand for bioenergy, says David Brand of investment manager New Forests.

• Captives to the rescue

  22 May 2013

  Investors' appetite for renewables is growing, but they remain wary of technology risks. That's where 'captive financiers' have a role to play, as Roland Chalons-Browne explains

• Is company reporting coming of age?

  17 May 2013

  Major changes in non-financial reporting have been launched this year. Dave Knight and Louise Ayling look at the implications for business and the key issues of materiality, value chain and governance

• Beware governments bearing subsidies

  16 May 2013

  A slew of bankruptcies was triggered when the German government cut subsidies to its solar sector. Annerose Tashiro reflects on the lessons that the industry must learn