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  • WEF warns of lack of climate action post-Covid-19

    19 May 2020

    Underinvestment in climate initiatives after the crisis poses wide-scale threats

  • WCI Carbon Market Update, 19 May 2020

    19 May 2020

    This week's auction of California Carbon Allowances is expected to see most of the supply go unsold, even though the December 2020 contract is now above the floor price, says Nicolas Girod*.

  • EU carbon market update: 19 May 2020

    19 May 2020

    The short-term outlook for EU Allowances is bullish, but the price direction is largely in the hands of the power utilities, says Tom Lord*.

  • Siemens Gamesa inks medical research supporting bank guarantee

    19 May 2020

    Wind turbine maker Siemens Gamesa signed an innovative €600 million bank guarantee line to cover the component construction for the world's largest offshore wind farm, with the premium on the deal used to finance a cancer research project.

  • Lessons from the Covid-19 crisis - Part one

    19 May 2020

    In the first of this two-part series, Hervé Duteil draws on three sustainability foresights offered by the Covid-19 pandemic crisis. This article explores the future we want, the future we fear, and the future we create

  • Coalition of 42 global faith groups divest from fossil fuels

    18 May 2020

    Over 40 religious institutions with more than £1.1 billion ($1.3 billion) in assets under management have agreed to divest from fossil fuel companies, in the largest ever joint announcement by faith organisations.

  • Nomura pursuing improvements in Japanese impact reporting

    18 May 2020

    Nomura is planning to engage more with Japanese listed companies to ask them to disclose sustainability information, according to the manager of its Global Sustainable Equity fund.

  • S&P Global ESG Scores launched

    18 May 2020

    S&P Global has increased its presence in the increasingly competitive ESG data market, with the launch of its proprietary 'S&P Global ESG Scores'.

  • Unédic issues largest ever social bond

    18 May 2020

    Unédic, France's unemployment insurance management body, has launched the world's largest ever social bond, raising €4 billion ($4.3 billion) to support its response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

  • SUSI Partners raises €289m at energy efficiency fund close

    18 May 2020

    Swiss asset manager SUSI Partners secured €289 million ($313 million) in investor commitments on the final close of its second energy efficiency fund, slightly short of its target following the economic turmoil wrought by the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis.