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Energy Transition: a Complex but Compelling Challenge

Reaching net-zero targets will require major investment and concerted political will. BloombergNEF (BNEF) estimates this investment at USD 92–173 trillion over the next three decades, of which US...

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Interview with Brindusa Burrows: “We simply cannot afford to not invest in the SDGs in emerging markets”

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are key to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in developing countries. Investing in their ability to contribute to the SDGs is key to our future. Th...

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Solving Plastic Pollution from an Investor Perspective

Plastic is ubiquitous in our life. Look around and you will find all kinds of materials that are made from plastic such as smartphones or food packaging. Plastic’s versatility, lightweight, and low-co...

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Pipeline Builder Partnership: Interview with Charles Abani, UN Resident Coordinator in Ghana

The West African country of Ghana is the focus of a pilot of the Pipeline Builder, a partnership between SDG Lab at the United Nations in Geneva and Ground_Up Project, a Swiss-based impact finance adv...

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Defining and Conceptualizing Impact Investing

A new special issue in the Journal of Business Ethics provides a first effort to establish a body of knowledge on impact investing from a business ethics perspective. Vanina Farber (IMD), a guest edit...

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How Greenwashing almost Took Out ESG?

With impacts of the climate emergency intensifying, companies have new opportunities and incentives to showcase their green credentials, making net zero pledges and signing climate commitments. But wh...

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Net Zero: The Real Economy Must Adapt to the Requirements of the Financial Sector

The financial sector has set itself ambitious net zero targets. The real economy must therefore show even more progress, provide transparency and take measures to meet the growing demands of the finan...

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The Economics of Sustainability-linked Bonds

Researchers from the Geneva Finance Research Institute (GFRI) at the University of Geneva Tony Berrada, Leonie Engelhardt, Rajna Gibson and Philipp Krueger recently wrote a paper on the economics of s...

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Balancing Regulation between Complexity and Transparency

The range of collective capital investments with sustainability strategies has multiplied over the past 20 years. As the number of sustainable funds increases, accusations of greenwashing make the rou...

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Harnessing the Energy Transition

Climate change remains the central challenge of sustainable investing: we have been aware of the issue for over 30 years, and yet the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report shows gree...

Category: Guest contribution

Energy Transition: a Complex but Compelling Challenge

Interview with Brindusa Burrows: “We simply cannot afford to not invest in the SDGs in emerging markets”

Solving Plastic Pollution from an Investor Perspective

Pipeline Builder Partnership: Interview with Charles Abani, UN Resident Coordinator in Ghana

Defining and Conceptualizing Impact Investing

How Greenwashing almost Took Out ESG?

Net Zero: The Real Economy Must Adapt to the Requirements of the Financial Sector

The Economics of Sustainability-linked Bonds

Balancing Regulation between Complexity and Transparency

Harnessing the Energy Transition

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