Analysis

  • It's not you, it's me

    22 July 2024

    Sustainability and impact advocates can close the 'do-say gap' in 21st-century investing, writes Kieron Boyle

  • Sustainable bond 'maturity wall' marks major milestone

    19 July 2024

    Record maturing sustainable bond volumes could slow net issuance, but represents a "significant" next step for a market that is coming of age. Ahren Lester reports

  • Nature reporting on the rise

    18 July 2024

    Europe is leading the way in demanding companies report their nature impacts, but other parts of the globe are set to follow. Genevieve Redgrave reports.

  • Green bonds and biodiversity: a challenge and an opportunity

    17 July 2024

    Greater transparency will make it easier to steer capital towards the theme of biodiversity, which is so essential to securing the sustainability of our economic activity, writes Louis Wuyam

  • Putting transition plans to the test: Moody's

    16 July 2024

    Investors face a tough task in scrutinising corporate transition plans - but an increasing number of products promise to help. In the first in a series, Michael Hurley examines Moody's Net Zero Assessment

  • Is politics ignoring the climate-and-nature crisis?

    15 July 2024

    Addressing both climate and nature is a business imperative, despite the deafening political silence, argues Andrew Coburn

  • SDR and the need for independent assessment

    12 July 2024

    Some asset managers plan to use internal controls, such as the risk management function and sustainability committee, to perform the independent assessment required under the Sustainability Disclosure Requirements, writes Annie Omojola

  • Understanding the supply chain is the key to tackling biodiversity risk

    11 July 2024

    Embedding of climate risk into day-to-day business operations is a milestone moment in efforts to manage the climate impact of global business. Richard Young explores whether biodiversity risk could become as integrated into how businesses operate

  • EU Green Bond label faces slow start

    10 July 2024

    Investors would be keen to buy the gold-standard of sustainable bonds, but issuers are struggling to meet the criteria, writes Ahren Lester

  • Nature data - overwhelmingly complex, but a need-to-know

    09 July 2024

    Amid rapidly growing demand for nature data, changing investor requirements and artificial intelligence will shift the market, writes Genevieve Redgrave