Archive

  • Norway's oil fund divests from Korea's Posco and Daewoo

    18 August 2015

    Norway's sovereign wealth fund – the largest in the world – is to exclude leading Korean companies Posco and Daewoo International from its investment portfolio because of their involvement in palm oil plantations in Indonesia.

  • NTR to spin-off pureplay European wind company

    18 August 2015

    Irish conglomerate NTR has revealed in full its plan to spin off its European wind business into a separate company.

  • Aquila Capital buys UK solar plant

    17 August 2015

    Aquila Capital has bought its second solar plant in the UK, praising the country's renewable energy investment landscape.

  • Morningstar to offer ESG scores for funds

    13 August 2015

    Morningstar is to begin offering environmental, social and governance (ESG) scores on mutual and exchange-traded funds, in a move it says is an industry first.

  • GreenStream loan is 'missing piece of the puzzle' for growth in China

    06 August 2015

    Finnish environmental services firm GreenStream has secured "the missing piece of the puzzle" with a financing package from a Chinese development bank.

  • Hudson and Adenium in $300m Japanese solar tie-up

    05 August 2015

    Private equity firms Hudson Clean Energy Partners and Adenium Energy Capital have joined forces to construct $300 million of solar photovoltaic (PV) assets in Japan.

  • Obama pollution plan boosts prospects for renewables … and Paris

    04 August 2015

    Barack Obama has laid down tough measures to tackle emissions from US power plants, in a bold statement that is expected to boost the renewables sector and facilitate a global climate change agreement.

  • Impax private equity fund exits wind farm

    03 August 2015

    Sustainable investment specialist Impax Asset Management has sold a wind farm in France.

  • Tool to help investors assess deforestation risks to portfolios

    31 July 2015

    Banks and investors are being urged to assess the risks to their portfolios from deforestation, using a new tool created by the UN.

  • FTSE creates indexes to exclude coal

    30 July 2015

    FTSE Russell has extended its range of fossil-fuel free indexes with a new series excluding coal and mining firms, as the divestment movement gathers pace.