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Vote now! Help select the winners in Environmental Finance's annual Market Rankings
24 October 2018Voting 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.
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Ceres preparing water stress test working group
24 October 2018A 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.
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Pension funds have failed to protect themselves against climate risks, says report
23 October 2018Pension 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.
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Investors turning attention to deforestation risks, says Ceres
23 October 2018Investors 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.
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$2.3trn of Asian investors join Climate Action 100+
23 October 2018Asian investors with a combined $2.3 trillion in assets have signed up to engagement initiative Climate Action 100+.
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BlackRock launches ETFs 'to take ESG mainstream'
23 October 2018BlackRock has launched six 'sustainable exchange-traded funds' (ETFs), which it hopes will propel environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing further into the mainstream.
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EU carbon market update, 22 October 2018
22 October 2018Last 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.
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Green Climate Fund commits $1bn to new projects
22 October 2018Funding 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.
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Sustainability bonds' potential to help meet smart cities investment challenge
22 October 2018The 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.
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UK government commits additional £80m to green investments
22 October 2018The 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.