Climate & environment

Impact investments achieve returns comparable to the wider market, making them compatible with the fiduciary duty of pension funds to their stakeholders, a Pensions for Purpose research paper concludes.

Conceived as a way of linking the climate emergency to broader ESG themes, the just transition is shining a path for impact investors looking to take a holistic approach to the societal disruption the world is going through as it moves to net zero. 

Will the market for biodiversity credits explode in the coming years, as some predict? Dr Michael Burgass, co-founder and director of consultancy firm Biodiversify, is sceptical. “We don’t need another market, let’s improve the carbon market”

The fund manager will invest in businesses with scalable solutions to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss in partnership with UK academic and other research institutions.

Asset owners are wrestling with how to balance pressure to decarbonise their own investment portfolios in the short-term against the benefits of investing in longer-term decarbonisation of polluting industries.

As COP 28 kicks off in the UAE, Christopher Walker meets with key experts to gauge the progress of using an impact lens in the Middle East

The Fiscal Matters Coalition wants reforms to the EU’s Stability and Growth Pact to better align with national budgets, in order to achieve a green and just transition.

Finland is calling for more cooperation between nations ahead of COP28 | European life insurers want to boost their ESG investments | The reporting of Scope 3 emissions is rising.

The impact investment manager is targeting the funding gap for SMEs in emerging markets with its latest product, the BlueOrchard Impact Credit Fund.

Johan Brand, co-founder of We Are Human, talks about the company’s unconventional business model that is driving societal impact through education, health and climate tech.