Archive

  • CDP maps its data and tools onto EU sustainable finance measures

    22 October 2019

    CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) has issued guidance to help investors, policy-makers and others implement various measures called for under the EU Action Plan on Sustainable Finance.

  • Japanese typhoons won't dent insurers' capital

    22 October 2019

    Japan's three major non-life insurers will not be severely impacted by typhoons Faxai and Hagibis, according to rating agency AM Best.

  • Cubico agrees first green loan for Italian wind assets

    22 October 2019

    Renewables firm Cubico Sustainable Investments has achieved financial close on its first green loan for the refinancing of three wind assets in Italy.

  • Spain's ICO to join Clean Oceans Initiative

    22 October 2019

    Spanish development bank, Instituto de Credito Oficial, has commitment to join the Clean Oceans Initiative which aims to finance €2 billion ($2.2 billion) of projects targeting marine pollution, particularly plastic waste.

  • Singaporean REIT signs SGD670m green loan

    22 October 2019

    Mapletree Commercial Trust Management (MCTM) has agreed a SGD670 million ($492 million) green loan with a syndicate of five banks.

  • High-emitters' climate disclosures 'fail to quantify financial impact'

    21 October 2019

    The climate-related financial disclosures by most US and European companies in 'environmentally sensitive' industries do not quantify the potential financial impact of climate change on their business, according to Moody's.

  • EU carbon market update, 21 October

    21 October 2019

    Brexit remains the focus of attention in the EU Allowance (EUA) market this week and further volatility looks the most likely scenario, says Louis Redshaw*

  • WCI Carbon Market Update, 21 October 2019

    21 October 2019

    WCI prices edge higher ahead of compliance deadline, notes Nicolas Girod*

  • Introducing IMPACT

    21 October 2019

    Bob Dylan once sang: "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows". I am no weatherman, but it is clear to me that impact investing has the wind in its sails.

  • NBIM criticises PRI over its focus on impact reporting

    21 October 2019

    Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) has criticised the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) for making impact reporting "a de facto seventh principle".