Archive

  • Trucost launches TCFD reporting tool

    15 August 2017

    A tool that helps companies report in line with the FSB's Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations has been launched by Trucost, part of S&P Dow Jones Indices.

  • Fannie Mae returns to green MBS market

    15 August 2017

    Fannie Mae, which provides liquidity to mortgage providers in the US, has issued its second green mortgage-backed security (MBS).

  • Time for investors in Asia's meat and dairy industries to 'step up to the plate'

    14 August 2017

    Investors in Asia's meat, seafood and dairy industries "face a range of badly managed sustainability risks with significant potential to derail returns," a report has warned.

  • EU carbon market weekly update - 14 August 2017

    14 August 2017

    A mixed week for carbon as it spent time in both negative and positive territory before, as expected, ultimately ending the week flat at €5.40.

  • CBA to face shareholder resolution on climate commitment

    14 August 2017

    A shareholder resolution will be lodged against Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) to protest against its climate change position statement, which was branded a failure that "falls well short" of the bank's climate commitments.

  • IFC's Hartwick joins AIIB

    14 August 2017

    Evelyn Hartwick is to move from the IFC's Treasury department to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).

  • Contact Energy launches $1.3b green borrowing initiative

    14 August 2017

    New Zealand utility Contact Energy has created a 'green borrowing programme' to provide NZ$1.8 billion ($1.3 billion) of funding for renewables projects.

  • People Moves: LPFA, PBOC

    11 August 2017

    The London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA) has made two hires to help it follow through on its fossil fuel divestment policy.

  • ABN Amro to offer cheap mortgages for energy efficiency upgrades

    11 August 2017

    Dutch lender ABN Amro said it will offer reduced interest rates to help homeowners increase the energy efficiency of their homes.

  • Insurers under fire for underwriting coal industry

    11 August 2017

    Divesting from coal companies while continuing to underwrite them is a 'blind spot' of insurers' climate policies, according to campaigners. Cintia Cheong investigates what four insurers are doing about it