Oliver Balch
Oliver Balch
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Jan 8, 2018
The Swedish bank’s intrepid head of sustainable finance, who narrowly escaped Bosnia with his life at 19, tells Oliver Balch that ‘green’ finance is a lot of hot air until it makes a difference on the ground
Dec 19, 2017
225 investors launch Climate Action 100+ scheme to put pressure on big polluters, 237 companies commit to climate-related disclosure, while World Bank pledges to stop funding coal on second anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement
Dec 19, 2017
Nestlé, Mars, Marks & Spencer, Danone and Kellogg top scorers in Forest 500 report; ocean plastics backlash grows; EU probes IKEA tax affairs
Nov 23, 2017
The founder of CDP tells Oliver Balch how the organisation he started 17 years ago has helped transform corporate and investor attitudes to climate change
Nov 7, 2017
Oliver Balch picks out the most important messages from the raft of research on business and climate change released ahead of this week’s UNFCCC conference in Bonn
Oct 25, 2017
In a new series of in-depth profiles of the people transforming business for good, Oliver Balch talks to Google's head of sustainability about the challenges of ensuring the giant tech company is doing no evil to the planet
Sep 26, 2017
A raft of firms set science-based targets to cut emissions, CEOs see business benefits of CSR, supply chains pose reputational risk, food companies failing to tackle water issues and ethnically diverse firms outperform
Aug 31, 2017
Influx of immigrants has led to increase in forced labour in three-quarters of EU states, with greatest risk in Italy, Greece, Romania, Cyprus and Bulgaria
Jul 25, 2017
Oliver Balch tackles key topics in academic thinking and research on sustainability
Jul 4, 2017
Public charging boom lifts EV sales, gender issues for start-ups, investors need more ESG data, and low social mobility hits millennials