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ESG principles need to apply to countries first

  Environmental, social and governance investors believe they can lower the risk of a portfolio and maybe even boost its return by investing in companies with robust ESG policies. The idea is that companies that take ESG seriously are better stewards of the environment, are less likely to be in the path of climate change, take better care of workers, ...

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Siberian detour pushes airlines to retrace Cold War era routes

Bloomberg Global airlines are going to great lengths to avoid Russian airspace but few to the extent of Finnair Oyj, the flag carrier of Finland. It’s flying thousands of miles around its northern neighbour, retracing routes abandoned decades ago at the end of the Cold War. The economic burden of those end-runs is measured in additional jet fuel burn, extended ...

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Serbia to slash Moscow flights after criticism

  Bloomberg Serbia’s flag carrier will scale back flights to Moscow after criticism that it’s profiting from the service at a time when most other airlines stopped flying to Russia to comply with sanctions imposed over the war in Ukraine, President Aleksandar Vucic said. Air Serbia recently increased its Moscow flights to as many as three a day from one ...

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