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Climate and SDGs to be focus of French pension fund's new SRI strategy
28 May 2018Climate change is “the biggest risk” to the €36.4 billion ($44 billion) FRR pension fund in coming years, Salwa Boussoukaya-Nasr, chief investment officer of the pension fund, tells Michael Hurley.
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Green bond experts rebut GPIF charge they are a 'lose-lose' product
23 May 2018A valuable benefit of green bonds is that they enable fixed income investors to 'engage' with issuers on topics such as climate change, as is already common practice in the equity markets, according to Frederic Samama, co-head of institutional clients coverage at Amundi Asset Management.
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$10trn of investors urge oil and gas companies to ramp up climate efforts
18 May 2018Sixty big investors have urged the oil and gas industry to take responsibility for all its emissions, as some of the sector’s most powerful players prepare for their annual shareholder meetings.
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Green Bond Comment, March
04 April 2018At least $28 billion of new green bonds were issued in the first three months of 2018, according to preliminary data from the Environmental Finance Green Bonds Database.
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IFC and Amundi close world's largest green bond fund
16 March 2018The world's biggest green bond fund was officially launched today, having raised $1.42 billion to buy paper from banks in emerging markets.
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Stimulating green finance in Africa
14 March 2018African countries have the potential to achieve their sustainability objectives through innovative funding of climate-change projects, including green bonds, say Mindy Hauman and Tallat Hussain
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Green Bond Comment, February 2018
07 March 2018Sovereign issuers gave a major boost to the green bond market in February, with inaugural issues from Belgium (€4.5 billion) and Indonesia ($1.25 billion) and a repeat issue from Poland (€1.0 billion).
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Actiam joins IIGCC
22 February 2018Dutch asset manager Actiam has joined the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC).
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50 names to be added to Climate Action 100+ engagement hit list
21 February 201850 more corporates are to be added to the $28 trillion Climate Action 100+ initiative's list of targets for climate-related engagement.
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European green bond fund AUM nears €3bn
12 February 2018The value of European-domiciled green bond funds grew to €2.8 billion ($3.4 billion) at the end of 2017, having almost doubled in the past two years.