Archive

  • NatWest: Investors 'increasingly' asking for blue and nature bond deals

    22 July 2024

    Investors are increasingly asking NatWest to specifically bring nature-focused and 'blue' bond deals to market, but despite being "meaningful" themes in the sustainable bond market they are still not effectively being pointed out.

  • Renewables may benefit from a 'climate put' unappreciated by investors, says UBS

    15 June 2023

    Renewables developers could be set to benefit from a "climate put" option, thanks to strong policy support, UBS has suggested in a note.

  • Shareholder group steps up rare metals engagement

    03 December 2021

    A group of shareholders with a total of €30 billion ($34 billion) in assets said it will this month begin stepping up its engagement with companies involved with potential controversies in the supply chains of rare earths and rare metals.

  • Winners revealed in Environmental Finance's Bond Awards 2020

    30 March 2020

    Environmental Finance's Bond Awards were expanded again this year to reflect the growth and evolution of the green, social and sustainability (GSS) bond markets and to include the nascent GSS loan market.

  • Green bond round-up: Orsted, Starbucks, Azure, Wapda, Greenworks ... and more

    08 May 2019

    Danish wind energy company Orsted plans to return to the green bond market with a multi-tranche transaction denominated in Sterling.

  • Profile: Richmond Global Compass' hedge fund

    25 March 2019

    The Compass Fund aims to tap into "the two greatest megatrends of the 21st century" - sustainable investing and AI. Peter Kellner talks to Peter Cripps

  • Investec launches Global Environment Fund

    25 February 2019

    Investec Asset Management has launched a fund to invest in public companies that benefit from the trend towards decarbonisation.

  • Green Bonds round-up, 19 December

    19 December 2018

    The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has allocated THB5 billion ($152 million) to buy the whole of a two-tranche green bond offering from Thailand's B. Grimm Power.

  • Nippon Life backs TCFD and invests in offshore wind

    18 December 2018

    Nippon Life Insurance Company – Japan’s largest life insurer – has committed to report in line with the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial disclosures (TCFD).

  • Aviva and L&G invest more than £750m in world's largest wind farm

    28 November 2018

    Aviva Investors and Legal & General Investment Managers – Real Assets (LGIM RA) have lent more than £750 million ($957 million) to Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) to purchase 50% of the UK's Hornsea One offshore wind farm.