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  • Were the pledges at the UN Climate Summit bold enough?

    24 September 2014

    The flurry of pledges and initiatives launched at the UN Climate Summit has sparked claims that the event represents "a shift of consciousness moment".

  • Governments and companies in joint pledge to halt forest loss

    24 September 2014

    More than 30 national governments, 40 companies and numerous NGOs and regional governments have pledged to work to halt deforestation globally by 2030.

  • Q&A: Portfolio Decarbonisation Coalition

    24 September 2014

    What is the Portfolio Decarbonisation Coalition (PDC), which aims to decarbonise $100bn of investments by the end of 2015?

  • World Bank welcomes carbon pricing moves and plans further action

    23 September 2014

    Putting a price on carbon emissions now has support from national and regional governments responsible for more than 54% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to the World Bank.

  • UN should put its money where its mouth is, says asset manager

    23 September 2014

    UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been urged to align the investments of the UN's pension fund with his calls for action to combat climate change.

  • What the UN Climate Summit needs to deliver

    22 September 2014

    Ahead of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's climate summit in New York this month, a selection of thought leaders give their views on what they hope will be agreed at the gathering.

  • Global investor coalition calls for ambitious climate deal

    18 September 2014

    A coalition of some of the world's biggest investors has demanded an ambitious climate deal to help unlock the $1 trillion of investment needed to combat climate change.

  • New Forests registers project under California carbon market

    18 September 2014

    Forestry investment manager New Forests has registered its second project under California's carbon market.

  • World Bank sells options to stimulate methane reductions

    16 September 2014

    The World Bank is launching a novel financing mechanism to attract private sector capital to projects that prevent or reduce emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

  • MSCI launches low-carbon indexes

    16 September 2014

    MSCI has launched a set of low-carbon indexes, which have won the backing of major investors the Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP4), Fonds de Reserve pour les Retraites (FRR) and Amundi.