Opinion
June 7, 2022
Investors should be encouraged to tilt towards improving brown companies, not exclude them
New research makes the case for holding capital in brown companies that are transitioning to a more sustainable business model – despite regulatory incentives against...
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May 31, 2022
Time for companies to lobby sustainably too
Millions of consumers, employees and investors are seeking to align their purchases, jobs and investments with their values. They want transparency and a clear understanding...
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May 23, 2022
Your View: Regulators need to look at new sustainability-linked debt, not green bonds
From Jonny Mulligan, The Martello Advisory In response to your article “Green bond proposals could hamper issuance, EU warned” (May 18), the point is not...
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April 21, 2022
Restaurants’ calories disclosure lesson for ESG
As the UK forces large restaurants to publish calories on menus, there are ESG lessons to be learned from the US experience – and interesting parallels...
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April 7, 2022
Would clever ESG marketing fool you?
More granular disclosures and better ESG data help improve business and finance, but greenwashing efforts may still be greater. A friend of mine joined a...
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March 30, 2022
Taxonomies should scrutinise 'inputs' to green assets
Lack of transparency on the environmental and social impact of creating green assets undermines policymakers' sustainability work. As the EU and other policymakers are defining...
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March 21, 2022
Should developing markets take a carrot or a stick approach to ESG regulation?
As European regulation exposes the challenges in addressing environmental, social and governance factors, developing markets, such as India, may wish to take a flexible approach. ESG investing is big business,...
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March 9, 2022
Sustainable investment markets are overhyped, broken and superfluous
How much carbon dioxide emissions have been avoided thanks to sustainable capital markets? In recent years, the attention paid to environmental, social and governance (ESG) and sustainable investment by companies...
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March 8, 2022
How SDG impact standards can help boards
Where ESG labels fail, standards designed by the UN Development Programme around its sustainable development goals may guide business in the right direction, says Panama's former vice president. Decades after...
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March 1, 2022
War, risk and ESG
Anyone serious about sustainable finance should consider the invasion of Ukraine as a wake-up call, says Evgueni Ivantsov. Russian president Vladimir Putin’s military aggression against the sovereignty of independent and...
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February 24, 2022
What you should know about ESG data and ratings
Rating agencies' valuations of sustainability factors have yet to offer meaningful guidance, and research shows their application strips investors' ESG preferences of any impact on asset prices Investment based on...
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