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  • Climate finance 'needs equity not debt'

    19 April 2017

    Equity rather than debt is more urgently needed to fill the $670 billion climate financing gap, according to one clean energy company director.

  • First green bond from an insurer is launched

    19 April 2017

    The first green bond from an insurance company has hit the market. Its proceeds will be used to finance and refinance a green bond portfolio.

  • Introducing the Principles for Positive Impact Finance

    19 April 2017

    The Principles have been designed to help meet the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals. But how will they be implemented? Peter Cripps reports

  • Green bond round-up, 19 April 2017

    19 April 2017

    The Nigerian government has announced that it is delaying the launch of its inaugural sovereign green bond until after its 2017 budget is passed.

  • IFoA launches tender on climate change modelling for pension funds

    18 April 2017

    The UK's Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) has launched a call for proposals to model climate change's effect on defined benefit pension schemes.

  • PKA divests from five oil companies, considers 44 more

    18 April 2017

    Danish Pension fund PKA has divested from five Canadian oil companies over concerns they are at risk of devaluation amid from attempts to tackle climate change.

  • EU carbon market weekly update - 18 April 2017

    18 April 2017

    As expected, EUA prices moved sideways last week amid muted trading, as the Easter holidays approached.

  • Union Investment's green bond fund to exclude poor ESG performers

    18 April 2017

    Union Investment's new green bond fund will not buy paper from issuers that fail to meet its environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, Environmental Finance can reveal.

  • Investors start to weigh water risks

    18 April 2017

    Investor interest in corporate water risk is increasing fast. A range of tools and services are being developed to help companies respond. Graham Cooper reports

  • Fall in clean energy investment due, in part, to better technology - BNEF

    13 April 2017

    Clean energy investments continued to fall in the first quarter of 2017, partly driven by their falling capital costs as the technology gets better according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).