Archive

  • People moves: Legal & General Capital, Vigeo Eiris, Lekela and NIB

    16 March 2018

    Legal & General Capital (LGC) has recruited former RBS group treasurer John Cummins as its managing director of urban regeneration and clean energy.

  • SPP creates European fossil-free fund

    16 March 2018

    Swedish pension provider SPP has created a European fossil-free fund to add to its existing portfolio of three climate funds.

  • ISS expands ESG offering with Oekom acquisition

    15 March 2018

    Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has continued to build out its capabilities in the environmental, social and governance (ESG) data arena, with the acquisition of Oekom Research, arguably the last of the independent second party opinion providers in the green bond market.

  • $3trn of investors launch pilot group on TCFD

    15 March 2018

    Nine investors representing around $3 trillion of assets have joined forces to promote climate transparency.

  • London tops global index of green financial centres

    15 March 2018

    London has been named the world's leading green finance centre, according to the first Global Green Finance Index (GGFI), although Paris, Frankfurt and New York are expected to quickly gain ground thanks to policy changes.

  • Stimulating green finance in Africa

    14 March 2018

    African countries have the potential to achieve their sustainability objectives through innovative funding of climate-change projects, including green bonds, say Mindy Hauman and Tallat Hussain

  • Green bond round-up, 14 March 2018

    14 March 2018

    The European Investment Bank (EIB), the biggest single issuer in the green bond market, has tapped two of its outstanding Climate Awareness Bonds (CAB) within days of each other.

  • Australian carbon market lauded for 'full compliance' of largest carbon emitters

    14 March 2018

    The first full year of reporting under Australia's national carbon emissions reduction scheme has been hailed a success after 100% of large emitters met their legislated limits.

  • Energy storage fund targets £100m raise from London listing

    14 March 2018

    An energy storage investment fund claiming to be the first of its kind in the UK plans to raise as much as £100 million ($140 million) from its initial public offering.

  • Climatic Energy seeks to use green bonds to retrofit buildings in California

    13 March 2018

    A newly founded company in California is preparing to use credit-enhanced green bonds to retrofit up to 100 commercial buildings to make them more energy efficient.