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  • NY State Common and NY City Pension Funds make plans to cease fossil fuel investments

    22 December 2017

    Both the $200 billion New York State Common pension fund and the $181 billion New York City Pension Funds are to consider ceasing new investments in fossil fuels, their trustees have said.

  • Shareholder action forces oil giant Exxon to increase climate disclosures

    12 December 2017

    ExxonMobil is to start publishing reports on how policies to reduce global warming affect its profits, a move which marks a major victory for shareholder action on climate change, according to New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

  • Green Bonds Americas – last chance to book!

    11 October 2017

    Registrations for Environmental Finance's agenda-setting Green Bonds Americas conference will close on Monday 16 October.

  • ESG indexes: in the sweet spot

    20 September 2017

    Billions have flowed into funds tracking ESG indexes or low-carbon indexes in recent months. What are the innovations that will drive further growth, asks Peter Cripps

  • Green bond round-up, 13 September 2017

    13 September 2017

    Canada's Toronto-Dominion (TD) Bank has doubled the size of its latest green bond transaction to $1 billion, after demand swelled to more than $2 billion.

  • US asset owners are waking up to climate change

    31 July 2017

    There is increasing evidence that US investors are factoring climate change into their investment decisions, argues Meg Voorhes

  • Green bond round-up - 14 June

    14 June 2017

    German mortgage lender Berlin Hyp has priced its second 'green Pfandbrief' – its third green bond –raising €500 million ($560 million).

  • Shareholder climate success at Exxon

    31 May 2017

    A shareholder resolution calling for ExxonMobil to do more to tackle climate change received a significant majority, despite not being backed by the board.

  • Investors with $15trn in AUM call on global governments to implement Paris Agreement

    08 May 2017

    Investors representing more than $15 trillion in assets under management (AUM) have written to the governments of G7 and G20 countries calling on them to support and implement the commitments of the Paris Agreement, to limit global temperature increase to less than 2°C.

  • Exxon board fights climate resolution

    25 April 2017

    ExxonMobil's board has refused to support a climate change resolution backed by investors with over $10 trillion in assets under management (AUM).