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ABP to double sustainable investments by 2020
16 October 2015Algemeen Burgerlijk Pensioenfonds (ABP), the third-largest pension fund in the world, has pledged to double its sustainable investments in an overhaul of its responsible investment strategy.
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LGIM urges companies to focus on opportunities in low-carbon economy
07 October 2015Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM), one of Europe's largest asset managers, is urging companies in which it invests to focus on the opportunities, not just the risks, arising from the transition to a low-carbon economy.
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Profile: KBC Eco Fund - Water
01 October 2015Water funds, such as the KBC Eco Fund – Water, have performed strongly in recent years. But many stocks in the sector are now looking expensive, the fund manager tells Graham Cooper
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Banks agree to provide £1bn debt facility for London's 'super sewer'
25 August 2015A debt facility of £1 billion ($1.6 billion) is being provided by six banks to the consortium of long-term investors that will finance and own a major new sewer to be built beneath the river Thames in London.
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Business coalition calls for zero emissions 'well before end of century'
08 June 2015A coalition of businesses and NGOs has written an open letter calling for world leaders to back an ambitious "zero emissions" policy at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21) in December.
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World Bank welcomes carbon pricing moves and plans further action
23 September 2014Putting a price on carbon emissions now has support from national and regional governments responsible for more than 54% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to the World Bank.
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'First' biofuels facility to capture CO2 from coal-fired plant
03 July 2013A company that uses algae to make biofuels is to build what it claims will be the world's first facility to capture carbon dioxide from a coal-fired power station for use as a feedstock.