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Christopher Gooding

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Christopher Gooding is an energy transition analyst at Cornucopia Capital, where he focuses on global decarbonisation strategy, investment opportunities in clean infrastructure, and emerging climate technologies. He has experience in renewable energy compliance, carbon certification, and renewable energy market development across Europe and the Gulf and has contributed analysis on sustainability and energy policy for both public and private sector clients.

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Insuring ESG: Why the Gulf’s Financial Future Depends on Risk Pricing

Gulf insurers can embed environmental resilience, social safeguards, and governance rigor into underwriting to strengthen local markets and align with the expectations of global investors increasingly focused on ESG.

An abandoned vehicle stands in floodwater caused by heavy rain in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, April 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Christopher Pike, File)

The Gulf’s ESG Rules Are Redefining Risk

The Gulf’s environmental, social, and governance regulation transformation is not only reshaping compliance, it is redefining risk.

A diver jumps into the water at a location off the coast of Musandam to implant coral during the first Musandam International Diving Festival, in Oman, August 26. (REUTERS/Amr Alfiky)

The Gulf’s Carbon Reckoning

As Gulf states reconcile fossil-fuel dependency with a transition to low-carbon energy systems, success will depend on their ability to integrate technology, carve out strategic market positions, and implement robust carbon governance reforms – such as emissions tracking and enforcement mechanisms.

A Saudi Aramco engineer points at a tube that contains CO2 at the Hawiyah Natural Gas Liquids Recovery Plant in Hawiyah, Saudi Arabia, June 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

The Promise of Tracking Renewable Energy Development

International renewable energy certificates, which are increasingly popular in the Gulf, can help fuel the growth of the renewable energy industry as the world transitions away from fossil fuels.

A Saudi man looks at the solar plant in Uyayna, north of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 10, 2018. (REUTERS/Faisal Al Nasser)