Archive

  • Delicious and abundant: yes, we're talking about voluntary carbon markets

    26 August 2021

    Offsets play an important transitional role in neutralizing emissions that are more difficult to abate, argues Vikram Widge

  • BNP Paribas launches first blue economy ETF

    13 October 2020

    BNP Paribas Asset Management has launched the first exchange-traded fund focused on the blue economy, with the €35 million fund investing in listed equities that contribute to the sustainable economic use of the ocean resources

  • Transport taking rising share of climate finance, says think tank

    28 November 2019

    Finance for low-carbon transport has risen sharply in recent years to about $141 billion annually in 2017/18 – about 24% of all global climate finance – according to the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI).

  • BNP Paribas launches first circular economy ETF

    23 May 2019

    BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) has launched what they believe to be the first circular economy exchange traded fund (ETF).

  • People Moves: Columbia Threadneedle, Natixis, NBIM, BMO Capital Markets, Hong Kong Green Finance Association, FRC, Pattern Energy and NextEra Energy Partners

    04 January 2019

    Columbia Threadneedle boosts responsible investment team

  • Climate finance smashes records thanks to major boost in private-sector investment

    16 November 2015

    A 26% increase in private sector investment helped 2014 smash all previous records for climate finance, reaching $391 billion.

  • CPI calls for action on investor climate exposure

    20 August 2015

    Investors, regulators and standard-setters have been urged to drive forward environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure initiatives to help define "climate exposure", in a report by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI).

  • Green bonds 'can help achieve $100bn climate finance goal'

    11 June 2015

    Green bonds have been named one of the four instruments available to financial institutions to help ramp climate finance up to its $100 billion a year target.

  • Institutional investors eye 'real assets' to boost returns

    03 February 2015

    Institutional investors will increase their allocations to real assets, including renewable energy, infrastructure, agriculture and timber, as equities and bonds fail to deliver their target returns, according to alternative asset manager Aquila Capital.

  • Aquila Capital and ECPI plan co-managed sustainability funds

    20 May 2014

    Aquila Capital, a German investment firm specialising in renewable energy, agriculture and forestry, has formed a partnership with Italy's ECPI, a provider of sustainability research, in a move that will result in the launch of a range of sustainable investment products.