Climate-transition risks are reshaping lending and investment activities. Find out how banks can navigate these challenges with scenario-based risk-management strategies to meet new regulatory expectations.

Sustainability data can signal stock-market torpedoes — or long-term winners. Our research reveals the key environmental, social and governance indicators that helped investors avoid sharp drawdowns and capture outperformance.

A portfolio’s carbon footprint can shift for many reasons — corporate action, market forces or portfolio rebalancing. Our new unified framework breaks down carbon-footprint attribution across asset classes to help investors pinpoint the key drivers.

A comprehensive guide to the essentials of carbon markets, including compliance and voluntary markets, how companies and investors use carbon credits, and carbon-credit quality. 

2025 could mark a turning point for sustainable finance, with the EU’s CSRD and global ISSB standards driving transparency. Financial institutions will need to navigate evolving frameworks, balancing compliance challenges with sustainability opportunities.

COP29 advanced international carbon trading with key agreements. Mixed signals on the energy transition, however, affirm investors’ view of an uneven transformation, while investment to address climate-driven physical risk looks likely to continue apace.

We evaluate European funds’ performance under sustainability regulations, including SFDR article 8 and 9 funds, EU Taxonomy alignment and new fund-naming guidelines, offering insights into regulatory developments and data improvements. 

Some sovereign-bond investors seeking to support climate mitigation might be interested in the idea of increasing their exposure to issuers with lower carbon emissions. Would this have been a good approach?