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  • Schroders launches tool to measure companies' earnings at risk from rising carbon prices

    06 September 2017

    Investment manager Schroders has developed a tool for investors which measures how government moves to put a meaningful price on carbon could affect company profits and investment returns.

  • French property group uses green bonds to boost CSR effort

    05 September 2017

    French real estate investor Icade has issued a green bond to support its corporate social responsibility (CSR) ambitions.

  • MSCI ESG index outperforms benchmark over five years

    05 September 2017

    An ESG index developed by MSCI that excludes a small number of "red-flag" stocks and tilts the remaining constituents towards companies with strong sustainability performance has outperformed its benchmark by 39 basis points annually since 2012.

  • EU carbon market weekly update - 4 September 2017

    04 September 2017

    Carbon fell more than 4% last week to reverse the previous week's gains. In the face of increasing auction supply and falling power prices, carbon could not continue the upward momentum seen through August

  • Indian bank 'planning $3bn green bond issue'

    04 September 2017

    State Bank of India, the country's largest commercial bank, is planning to raise up to $3 billion from a green bond issue, according to local press reports.

  • Moringa purchases stake in Brazilian agro-forestry project

    04 September 2017

    Agro-forestry fund Moringa has committed to a $6 million investment in Brazilian company Floresta Viva, a producer of heart of palm, a vegetable derived from the palm tree.

  • Big in Japan?

    04 September 2017

    Support from the biggest pension fund in the world is helping ESG take off in Japan, write Peter Cripps and Joe Walsh

  • Greensphere launches new strategy

    01 September 2017

    Sustainability-focused private equity firm Greensphere Capital has launched a new strategy after being spun out from US giant TPG Partners earlier this year.

  • People Moves: Gridserve, CDP, Brunel Pension Partnership

    01 September 2017

    Former Greencoat Capital and Temporis Capital financier Mark Henderson has joined energy storage company Gridserve as its chief investment officer.

  • NN Group conducts carbon footprint analysis of investments

    01 September 2017

    Dutch insurer NN Group has published the results of its first carbon footprint analysis, and said the study could ultimately lead to divestment from companies judged to pose climate change transition risks.