Archive

  • LGIM announces exclusions from its £5bn Future World Funds

    11 June 2018

    Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has named the companies it regards as leaders and laggards on climate change issues, as part of its attempt to remove climate-related risk from its £5 billion ($6.7 billion) Future World funds.

  • Thimann leaves Axa for Athora in Germany

    11 June 2018

    Christian Thimann, a leading figure in several sustainable finance initiatives, has joined Bermuda-based insurance company Athora, after four and a half years in senior roles at Axa Group.

  • Investors offered tool to model low-carbon transition risk

    08 June 2018

    A modelling tool to help investors and regulators assess how the transition to a low-carbon economy will impact the financial performance of infrastructure investments, has been launched by the ClimateWise Insurance Advisory Council.

  • CMS Energy signs first US sustainability-linked loan of $1.4bn

    08 June 2018

    CMS Energy has signed a sustainability-linked revolving credit facility, claiming to have become the first US company to strike a deal of this kind.

  • How Trump inspired climate action by US companies and cities

    08 June 2018

    Companies and cities across the US have taken on a leadership role in terms of climate change action, since President Trump pulled the country out of the Paris Agreement 12 months ago, says Lance Pierce.

  • AP7 awards green mandates to KBI and Impax

    08 June 2018

    Swedish national pension fund AP7 has awarded two "green mandates" to KBI Global Investors and Impax Asset Management.

  • Economics, not policy, will strand fossil fuel assets, say academics

    07 June 2018

    Demand for fossil fuels will decline dramatically in coming years, as the cost of low-carbon energy and transport continues to fall, irrespective of any tightening of climate change policies, according to a research study.

  • Impax closes NEF III private equity fund with €357m

    07 June 2018

    Impax Asset Management has announced the final close of its NEF III fund, which will make private equity investments in renewable energy infrastructure, having raised €357 million ($422 million).

  • Investors urged to engage with companies on physical climate risks

    07 June 2018

    Investors are being encouraged to engage with companies on physical climate risks, both reactively and proactively, by identifying those with the biggest exposure to extreme weather events.

  • MAS and IFC sign deal to grow green bond market in Asia

    07 June 2018

    The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and IFC have agreed a collaboration to grow the green bond market in Asia.