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Rick Stathers joins Aviva Investors' growing ESG team

Rick Stathers has been appointed as senior ESG analyst, and Sora Utzinger as ESG analyst by Aviva Investors. Both were previously at CDP.

Boralex secures C$259m to fund wind farm acquisitions

Boralex, Canada's largest independent producer of wind power, has raised C$258.8 million ($196 million) in equity finance to fund its acquisition of Invenergy's stake in a 201MW portfolio of wind farms in Quebec.

Ireland seeks €500m public-private investment in climate fund

The Irish government has issued a call for €500 million ($584 million) of private and public investment in its newly-launched Climate Action Fund.

SASB moves closer to finalising its standards

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) is in the final stage of codifying its standards.

Green bond round-up, 11 July 2018

Obituary - Tessa Tennant: a long-term legacy

Tessa Tennant, a pioneer of the responsible investment industry, and a good friend of Environmental Finance, has died of cancer.

The anatomy of a taxonomy

The European Commission has a highly ambitious target - to develop a taxonomy to define what is green and act as a compass for sustainable finance. But there's a long and rocky road ahead for this controversial initiative, find Nick Roumpis and Peter Cripps

Natixis introduces ‘green weighting factor’

French bank Natixis has developed a so-called ‘green weighting factor’ (GWF) to prioritise investments deemed to have a positive environmental impact.

A different kind of conversation

The Talanoa Dialogue offers a new way of participating in the UN climate change process – and one that investors and financiers are beginning to explore. Mark Nicholls reports

Can the private sector save the Green Climate Fund?

Last week's unproductive board meeting highlights the need for the Green Climate Fund to reform, says Alexandra Tracy