Today is World Orangutan Day. A day when we should be celebrating this magnificent ape and our close cousin. It is a sad reflection on humankind that instead, a major Greenpeace campaign got underway this week, not to celebrate orangutans but to…
On a research survey in Nepal, I once stared into the eyes of a wild tiger, whilst dangling from the trunk of an elephant. The great beast had gone into sharp reverse, catapulting me from my observation post on its neck, as…
Brasil is the second largest producer of beef after the US. But its beef, leather and soy are primary commodities leading to land conversion, deforestation, and huge emissions that drive climate change in the region, leading to floods and droughts that disrupt…
A new report released today to mark Earth Day, offers financial institutions a first framework to measure their economic links to natural capital. Though invisible to many banks and asset managers, a portfolio’s impacts and dependencies on stocks and flows from nature…
Imagine if you could buy your favourite Latte and balance the 340g. of its carbon footprint at the time of purchase as easily as swiping your card. Imagine if the cost to you of doing this was minute, so that you started…
The major IPBES report released this week (reviewed below) makes grim reading. There is no way to dress up the unrelenting destruction of nature globally as anything but a disaster. What's changing is that, whilst before most people thought this was primarily…
Forty years ago this year, I stood on the summit of the second largest mountain in Borneo and looked down on the far horizon across an unbroken canopy of thick green rainforest. Today, that view is still green, but it is the…
The 3rd World Forum on Natural Capital took place in Edinburgh on 27th and 28th November attended by 700 delegates from Business, Finance, Government and Civil Society. These two articles capture the key points. It happens bi-annually. At the first Conference protesters…
EXXON has recently discovered what is rumoured to be the world's 6th largest oil reserve, 132 miles off Guyana's coast. Now it is the big new game in town, in a country with a weak government and 80% of its rainforests intact.…
Publication date 09/09/2017
The green bond market is growing fast but remains a small component of the bonds universe. According to the Climate Bonds Initiative 2016 Report, 'labelled' green bonds accounted for US$118 Bn of the market which is in turn…
