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A natural capital roadmap
21 February 2013Building on momentum created at the 'Rio+20' Earth Summit, 41 leaders in the financial sector are moving to mainstream natural capital integration in financial products and corporate accounting and reporting. Ivo Mulder, Andrew Mitchell and Peter Cruickshank explain
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Breckinridge wins 'B Corporation' status
20 February 2013Breckinridge Capital Advisors, a Boston‐based fixed income manager, has been awarded B Corporation certification, recognising its higher standards of social and environmental performance, transparency and accountability.
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Water investment: turning on the taps
19 February 2013With the bill for providing water for a growing population set to rocket, how can the flow of finance into infrastructure schemes be unleashed? Genevieve Bennett reports.
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World Bank to boost efforts to attract private investment for forestry
19 February 2013The World Bank Group has hit back at claims that it finances industrial logging concessions, and pledged to ramp up efforts to attract more private sector capital to support sustainable forestry.
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Carbon Trust unveils water reduction certification programme
19 February 2013The UK's Carbon Trust has launched what it says is the first international certification for water reduction, with Coca-Cola Enterprises and retail giant Sainsbury's among the first four companies winning certification.
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Drax profits fall, but shares rise amid biomass conversion plans
19 February 2013Profits dropped at Western Europe's biggest coal-fired electricity plant as it invested in plans to convert to running mainly on biomass – but it remains confident the transformation will deliver "attractive returns to shareholders".
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PRI showcases ESG integration approaches
14 February 2013The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) secretariat has published two reports to help investors better incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into investment decision making.
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Fund set for UK solar buying spree
13 February 2013A private equity fund backed by leading UK investor Jon Moulton is planning to ramp up its investments in industrial solar power installations, having deployed almost £40 million ($62.6 million) since December 2011.
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Giving credit to water benefits
12 February 2013A novel partnership is bringing lessons from the carbon markets to the challenge of financing water projects in developing countries. Sascha Lafeld and Jacob Bourgeois explain the Water Benefit Certificate initiative
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Axa draws up ESG framework for sovereign debt
11 February 2013Axa Investment Managers (Axa IM) has unveiled a new framework for analysing countries' environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance and has suggested ways in which it can be applied to sovereign debt portfolios.