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Manager of new green bond fund to be announced next month
28 July 2017A French pension scheme is expected to announce a €350 million ($400 million) green bond fund in mid-August, Environmental Finance has learned.
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EcoAct snaps up Carbon Clear
19 July 2017EcoAct, a Paris-based climate change advisory firm, has acquired Carbon Clear of the UK for an undisclosed sum.
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'Bring it on': California commissioner bullish on fossil fuel divestment
17 July 2017Commissioner Dave Jones was threatened with legal action from 12 Republican attorney generals who oppose his fossil fuel investments disclosure initiative. The threats appear to have spurred Jones on, however. Callum Tanner reports
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Allianz says policy changes needed to boost renewables investment
03 July 2017The G20 countries need to roughly double their annual investments in renewables and power infrastructure to meet the 2oC global warming goal of the Paris Agreement on climate change, according to German insurer Allianz.
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Insurers are bystanders on climate change risk management
19 June 2017Insurers are largely bystanders when it comes to managing climate change risk in their investment portfolios, according to the latest survey by the Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP).
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Allianz Global Investors backs US solar project
06 June 2017Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) has agreed to provide a 'back-leverage' loan to the 250MW Moapa solar energy facility in Nevada. The size of the loan has not been disclosed.
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Comment: Trump and Paris - who will have the last laugh?
02 June 2017As he announced that the US was to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord, President Donald Trump claimed that the rest of the world was laughing at the US for signing the agreement, and they won't be laughing any longer.
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Allianz makes fifth tax equity investment in US wind
24 May 2017Allianz Capital Partners (ACP), the alternative investment arm of the German insurer, has secured its fifth US wind farm tax equity investment in a little more than a year.
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Berkshire's 'huge appetite' for wind and solar assets
08 May 2017Berkshire Hathaway, the holding company of about 70 re/insurance companies globally, has a "huge appetite" for solar and wind power projects, according to chief executive Warren Buffett.
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Investors with $15trn in AUM call on global governments to implement Paris Agreement
08 May 2017Investors representing more than $15 trillion in assets under management (AUM) have written to the governments of G7 and G20 countries calling on them to support and implement the commitments of the Paris Agreement, to limit global temperature increase to less than 2°C.