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  • Vote now! Help select the winners in Environmental Finance's annual Market Rankings

    24 October 2018

    Voting for Environmental Finance's 19th annual Market Rankings is closing soon – there are just eight working days left to participate in the largest and most closely watched survey of the world's environmental markets.

  • Ceres preparing water stress test working group

    24 October 2018

    A working group to develop guidance on conducting stress testing and scenario analysis of water risk in investment portfolios is to be established by US non-profit Ceres.

  • Pension funds have failed to protect themselves against climate risks, says report

    23 October 2018

    Pension funds have largely failed to prepare themselves against climate risks, which exposes $9.8 trillion (£7.5 trillion) of their assets to economic shocks from global warming, a report said.

  • Investors turning attention to deforestation risks, says Ceres

    23 October 2018

    Investors are increasingly engaging companies to better manage deforestation risks in their supply chains – an issue that has traditionally been overlooked, according to US-based non-profit Ceres.

  • $2.3trn of Asian investors join Climate Action 100+

    23 October 2018

    Asian investors with a combined $2.3 trillion in assets have signed up to engagement initiative Climate Action 100+.

  • BlackRock launches ETFs 'to take ESG mainstream'

    23 October 2018

    BlackRock has launched six 'sustainable exchange-traded funds' (ETFs), which it hopes will propel environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing further into the mainstream.

  • EU carbon market update, 22 October 2018

    22 October 2018

    Last week’s break of the upward trendline for EU Allowance prices is a bearish signal but this may be offset by smaller auction volumes and lower temperatures, says Louis Redshaw.

  • Green Climate Fund commits $1bn to new projects

    22 October 2018

    Funding awards for a ‘world first’ developing market green bank and a controversial water project in oil-rich Bahrain have been revealed as part of the latest in the embattled Green Climate Fund (GCF)’s disbursals.

  • Sustainability bonds' potential to help meet smart cities investment challenge

    22 October 2018

    The sustainability bond market, including bonds linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), has a key role to play in helping to fund ‘smart cities’, an HSBC report said.

  • UK government commits additional £80m to green investments

    22 October 2018

    The UK government has earmarked £60 million ($78 million) to fund research and innovation projects that tackle air quality and climate change impacts, as part of its Strategic Priorities Fund.