Climate & environment

Pioneering financial institutions are stepping up the pressure on the companies in which they invest to take stronger measures to cut biodiversity loss in their operations and those of their suppliers.

Ed Lees, Co-Head Environmental Strategies BNPP AM, forms half of one of the most successful partnerships in impact investing. He explains how investing in ‘green companies’ and shorting ‘brown companies’ can force change.

Brussels has big plans for how to make the EU’s steel industry (almost) emission free. “There is a great surge to make hydrogen fuel take off,” said Carole Ferguson of Industry Tracker.

In this ‘Hitchhikers’ Guide to the impact galaxy’ we wander through our green future in good company.

This summer Impact Investor talks to investors and entrepreneurs about how the pandemic has shifted priorities. This week: Ayodeji Balogun, CEO of Nigeria-based commodities exchange AFEX.

The &Green Fund is striving for deforestation-free supply chains of the biggest agricultural commodities. Transforming entire supply chains is admittedly very complex. This begs the question: how?

Rob Appleby, the founder of The Cibus Funds, discusses the battle for one of the most important frontiers in sustainability.

As deforestation continues at an alarming rate, the &Green Fund has set itself a bold ambition. It wants to prove that responsible investment in large-scale agricultural production helps to protect tropical forests.

Steel has been grey to investors for hundreds of years – literally and figuratively. New technology is changing how they view one of the world’s most polluting industries.

Critics say a broad global equity portfolio cannot be considered impact investing if it includes mining and tobacco companies. Noel O’Halloran, chief investment officer at KBI Global Investors, disagrees.