Archive

  • Profile: Inflection Point's Carbon Zero strategy

    04 July 2016

    Inflection Point's Carbon Zero strategy offers a way for investors to lower the carbon intensity of their portfolio, and has the potential to outperform. Taylor Telford reports

  • Battery production poses fresh environmental risks to automakers' supply chains

    04 July 2016

    While electric vehicles (EV) are set to have an important role to play in helping tackling climate change, their boom could cause its own environmental problems – through the mining of lithium for the batteries that power them.

  • EF BRIEFS: IATA, DKB, Singapore Stock Exchange, Suzuki, TerraForm

    03 June 2016

    The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is urging governments to introduce a single global carbon offset mechanism to help tackle aviation emissions.

  • Singapore's Hyflux 'builds war chest' with four-times oversubscribed placement

    18 May 2016

    Sustainable technology firm Hyflux has seen its latest institutional offering more than four-times oversubscribed – closing the deal early at S$165 million ($120 million).

  • EF BRIEFS: Allianz; Electric car subsidy, US Clean Power Plan hearing postponed

    18 May 2016

    Allianz Global Investors has acquired an onshore wind portfolio from the Dutch Infrastructure Fund (DIF).

  • Norway's sovereign wealth fund to sue Volkswagen

    16 May 2016

    Norway's $850 billion oil fund has told the media it will sue Volkswagen (VW) over last year's emissions test scandal.

  • Consortium nets £1.3bn for UK offshore wind project in 'swift' fundraising round

    13 May 2016

    Masdar, Statoil and Statkraft have bagged £1.3 billion ($1.9 billion) in project financing for a major offshore wind venture, saying the deal proves investor confidence in the sector.

  • Vigeo Eiris 'severely' downgrades Mitsubishi Motors

    25 April 2016

    Environmental social and governance (ESG) ratings agency Vigeo Eiris has 'severely' downgraded Mitsubishi Motors, after the latter admitted to falsifying the emissions tests of 625,000 vehicles.

  • Investors urged to steer carefully around autos following Mitsubishi scandal

    20 April 2016

    Investors were warned to be wary of the automobile sector after another major manufacturer was embroiled in an emissions scandal.

  • EF BRIEFS: JLEN, Barclays, MUFJ, ACP

    18 March 2016

    UK infrastructure fund JLEN has acquired a solar park and extended its revolving credit facility to £65 million ($90 million).