Sustainability insights
Explore our events, podcasts and other content with a focus on preserving biodiversity and creating a sustainable blue economy.
To invest effectively over the long term, you need to understand the long-term trends affecting our world.
That’s why our in-house experts brief our clients regularly on the biggest challenges facing our environment and society, and how these could affect their portfolios – with help from external thought-leaders.
Ocean conservation and the sustainable blue economy
Feature article
Creating positive energy: how to accelerate green infrastructure
To achieve the Paris Agreement target of net zero by 2050, the world needs to shift to green infrastructure – now. In this feature for LUX magazine, Claire Asher shows how the public and private sectors can speed the move from fossil fuels to green energy.
The sustainable blue economy
Shaping investment opportunities in the sustainable blue economy
Creating a sustainable blue economy – meaning we can invest in businesses directly related to the oceans while avoiding negative impact – is one of the most important tasks on humankind’s to-do list. Deutsche Bank's Muriel Danis speaks about the challenges.
The sustainable blue economy
What is the blue economy?
The sustainable blue economy refers to all economic activity linked to the ocean that takes place within a framework designed to protect the environment, conserve natural resources and allow for equitable development.
CIO Nature Series
Rainforests: the Earth’s green lung
Rainforests provide invaluable ecosystem services supporting climate management, biodiversity, and rural livelihoods—but they are also fragile. In this publication, we focus on four key concerns: deforestation, climate change, poaching and illegal trade, and mining and oil extraction
Feature article
Baroness Scotland: for the common good
Baroness Scotland, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, has witnessed the effects of climate change on her home country, Dominica, first hand. She tells LUX magazine how the world’s financial institutions need to get creative to help developing nations combat climate change.
Biodiversity and natural capital
CIO Nature Series
Rainforests: the Earth’s green lung
Rainforests provide invaluable ecosystem services supporting climate management, biodiversity, and rural livelihoods—but they are also fragile. In this publication, we focus on four key concerns: deforestation, climate change, poaching and illegal trade, and mining and oil extraction
Feature article
Giving nature its true value
In the midst of a climate and inequality crisis, is it time to ditch GDP as a measure of economic success? Academics, conservationists and, increasingly, investors are looking to other factors such as natural capital.
CIO Special report
Land – A key Life Pillar
In our latest publication, we take a deep look at the importance of biodiversity, particularly from an investor's perspective.
Feature article
Markus Müller on the nature economy
What if we redesigned our economic model to take into account the cost of using nature? Markus Müller explains how the health of the world's natural capital is something we now have to articulate and factor into all our financial decisions.
Biodiversity
Markus Müller on natural capital
Markus Müller explores the benefits and necessity of a sustainable economic system based on natural capital.