A selection of the major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces.  The first week of COP16 underlined the scale of the changes required to align finance flows with the Global Biodiversity Framework. In nature’s debt – COP16 opened on Monday amid widespread determination among its 23,000 delegates to accelerate action in support of the goals of the Global…

Ujala Qadir, Director of Strategic Programmes at the Climate Bonds Initiative, explains why the organisation has expanded its green bond taxonomy to cover climate resilience. As the impacts of climate change increasingly affect businesses worldwide, adaptation needs are mounting each year – but investments clearly labelled as incorporating adaptation and resilience remain limited. The UN Environment Programme’s Adaptation Gap Report…

A maturing and commoditised market is presenting new challenges, according to Gustave Loriot-Boserup, Founder of Compass Insights. I started my career in responsible investment in 2018, joining Trucost — a provider of environmental data and insights. The company had recently been absorbed by S&P Dow Jones Indices. This acquisition marked one of the early moves in a rapid wave of…

As COP16 highlights financing gaps, initiatives help to overcome private sector struggles to identify and fund nature-positive projects. Nature-based solutions (NbS) may need more private investment to make a positive impact on climate and biodiversity – but they can also help the private sector shield itself from risks and build long-term value. This was one of the takeaways from a…

Sustainability-focused labels promise significant benefits for asset managers, but slow approval rate illustrates implementation challenges. Asset managers require further support from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to meet its Sustainability Disclosure Requirements’ (SDR) naming and marketing rules for green funds, despite recent flexibility. The SDR rules are intended to improve transparency, bolster reporting and limit greenwashing related to sustainability-focused…