This commentary discusses conundrums facing the greenhouse gas removal industry, in the light of Microsoft's recent significant purchase of carbon removal credits. Read more

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This commentary discusses conundrums facing the greenhouse gas removal industry, in the light of Microsoft's recent significant purchase of carbon removal credits. Read more
Away from current debates about ESG, business leaders need a new serious, focused and ambitious mindset as they grapple with today's great societal challenges. Read more
Transition planning is currently too data-focused and should instead include a people-centred change management approach to show society that the net zero world is one we should all be wanting to strive for, writes Darian McBain in this commentary for the Sustainable Finance Leadership Series. Read more
The health and productivity of the workforce in Bangladesh is under increasing threat in a warming world. In this commentary,... Read more
In this guest commentary, Ely Sandler and Rob Macquarie describe how a novel use of Article 6 of the Paris... Read more
Alejandra Padín-Dujon writes that the World Bank’s massive, longstanding vehicle for climate finance, the CTF, was notably absent from climate conversations at the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings. Read more
Against the backdrop of increasing legislation on managing the climate impacts of non-state actors, Tiffanie Chan applies a ‘climate litigation... Read more
The sweeping measures proposed in the EU’s ‘Fit for 55’ package of climate legislation are without precedent and are set... Read more
The UK Government has published further details about its strategy for decarbonising the economy. But, as Esin Serin and Bob... Read more
Meeting the call to 'Invest in Our Planet' requires rethinking how we manage economic development and recalibrating how we direct flows in the financial system, writes Danae Kyriakopoulou. Read more