News

9
Feb

The Great Readiness Gap: What Texas Solar and London’s Livery Halls Tell Us About the Future of Climate Finance

  If you want to see the future of renewable energy, don’t turn to Silicon Valley but rather look to the dusty ranchlands of West Texas. During the Livery Climate Action Group (LCAG) conference on January 26th at the historic Merchant Taylors’ Hall, Baroness Brown of Cambridge (Chair of the Adaptation Committee of the CCC) shared a startling statistic: Texas

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19
Dec

Our 2025 Highlights and Lowlights: A Year of Reckoning and Renewal

  2025 reminded us that impact investing doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It lives in an intricate overlap between global systems struggling to change and local actors who refuse to wait.  This was a year that tested our resilience — as people, as professionals, as an organisation, and as a purpose-driven community. But it also offered glimpses of regeneration and

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5
Dec

The National Emergency Briefing: We Must Invest Boldly to Avert Collapse

    Leadership on climate and nature must now match the urgency and scale of a world war effort, because our safety, prosperity and democratic stability genuinely depend on it.  The National Emergency Briefing in Westminster on 27th November 2025 brought this reality into sharp focus, making clear that the choice is no longer between action and inaction, but between

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2
Dec

EthicalFin Appoints Christian Polman as Managing Director, Strengthening Its Leadership in Impact Investment Advisory

London, UK, 2 December 2025 EthicalFin is delighted to announce the appointment of Christian Polman as Managing Director, and him becoming a shareholder, following over a year of successful collaboration as a consultant and advisor. This milestone reflects EthicalFin’s continued growth as a leading impact investment advisory boutique, committed to mobilising capital for positive change and advancing values-based investing across

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13
Nov

Investors Are Catalyzing Climate Innovation Whether or Not COP30 Delivers

  COP30 is undoubtedly a pivotal moment, but the accelerating impacts of climate change—rising costs, food inflation, and economic shocks—are making every day more critical for urgent climate action. Food inflation in the UK, where prices for butter, beef, milk, coffee, and chocolate—all climate-exposed products and staples of the typical shopping basket—rose 15.6% in the past year, exemplifies how environmental

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30
Oct

Investing in Nature – The next frontier? Lessons from Blue Earth Summit 2025

    At a time when global headlines are dominated by ecological tipping points, environmental disasters and extreme geopolitical turbulence, this year’s Blue Earth Summit provided a much-needed relief to boost optimism by bringing the Impact Ecosystem together, to unveil and promote novel solutions and innovations to help resolve our climate, social, and ecological challenges.  For those of us navigating

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