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Flood Re reveals contrasts in UK insurers' flood modelling
13 February 2017Britain's flood reinsurance programme has exposed insurers' ability to model and manage flood risk, as Flood Re's chief actuary Gary McInally discusses with Christopher Cundy
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Conservation finance 'sees $8.2bn of private capital'
12 January 2017The private sector has committed $8.2 billion of capital into conservation investments between 2004 and 2015, a report has found, with "dramatic growth" coming in the last two years.
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Water fund manager eyes second fundraise
05 January 2017A US-based wastewater treatment company has revealed that it is considering raising a second fund, just weeks after it announced the first investment from its inaugural investment vehicle.
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Water risk 'not currently priced into investment analysis'
22 December 2016Investors are not currently pricing in water risk into their analysis, even though it is "a powder keg" and a potential catalyst for sudden change, according to one investment bank.
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First muni green bond since US election
23 November 2016The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is set to issue its third green bond, representing the first issuance by a US municipality since the Presidential elections on 8 November.
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Companies take $14bn hit from water problems in 2016, CDP finds
18 November 2016The value of water-related financial impacts borne by companies soared to $14 billion last year, up from $2.6 billion the previous year.
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Green bond proposed for flood prevention in UK
16 November 2016Green bonds could be an efficient, cost effective, way to fund flood protection measures in the UK county of Cumbria, advocates say.
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COP blog: Big dams must not be allowed to sink the Green Climate Fund
15 November 2016Friends of the Earth
While little discussed at the COP, the channeling and use of climate finance must now take centre stage as the board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) prepares to meet next month in Samoa. -
COP blog: The price of not investing in water
10 November 2016European Investment Bank
This week in Marrakesh I'll have water very much on my mind as my colleagues and I join experts and partners from the world's development banks and international financial institutions to pin down just how we are going to put the Paris Agreement into practice and to assess our progress since last year. -
Water green bond issues break $10bn barrier
14 October 2016More than $10 billion has been raised by green bonds to be spent exclusively on water-related projects, Environmental Finance can reveal.