The world may be trying to wean itself off fossil fuels, but that doesn’t mean that the shares of big oil and gas companies are necessarily bad investments. While global oil production is only expected to grow slowly in the coming years, the continued rise in the world’s population – and its need for energy … Read more
This doesn’t mean that the Government has made a mistake in rowing back on some of the stricter intermediate targets, or erred by giving the go-ahead to another round of North Sea oil and gas licensing. Most people can see that these things make sense. As Mr Justice Holgate intimated last week in dismissing a … Read more
When Morgan Stanley started the Institute for Sustainable Investing to accelerate the growth and adoption of sustainable finance, few market participants understood its importance for the environment, society and corporate bottom lines. Today, as the Institute marks its 10th anniversary, sustainability is reshaping investing: Assets under management (AUM) for sustainable equity and fixed-income funds reached … Read more
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Walter Ellis is a Northern Ireland-born, France-based journalist and commentator. He’s the author of “The Beginning of the End: The Crippling Disadvantage of a Happy Irish Childhood.” The thoughts of Henry VIII, king of England from 1509 to 1547, on the subject of today’s … Read more
First, the good news. Extreme poverty has dropped sharply around the world in the past 30 years: Almost 40% of the global population lived in extreme poverty in 1990; now it’s less than 10%. That translates to hundreds of millions of people freed from hunger and severe deprivation. Yet, the future merits a higher bar. … Read more