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  • Susi Energy Storage Fund reaches €66m first close

    03 April 2017

    Swiss asset manager Susi Partners has secured €66 million ($70 million) of investment at the first close of its energy storage fund.

  • European Commission's sustainable finance committee targets investment chain transformation

    03 April 2017

    The European Commission's High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance will focus on transforming the entire investment and lending chain into a sustainable financial system.

  • Scaling up the energy efficiency market

    03 April 2017

    Meeting the EU's ambitious 2030 target for energy efficiency improvements will require more private finance, better data and standardisation, reports Peter Cripps

  • France propels green bond market to achieve record first quarter

    03 April 2017

    A record breaking $25 billion of green bonds were issued in the first quarter of 2017, thanks in part to the mammoth €7 billion ($7.5 billion) sovereign green bond from France.

  • CIP to invest $81m in US onshore wind farm

    03 April 2017

    Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) is set to make an $81 million equity investment in an onshore wind farm in the US.

  • EDF and Amundi partner on energy efficiency fund

    31 March 2017

    French utility Électricité de France (EDF)has partnered with Amundi to launch an energy efficiency fund targeting up to €2 billion ($2.14 billion.

  • People Moves: BAML, CCC, Clean Energy Regulator

    31 March 2017

    Bank of America Merrill Lynch has appointed Suzanne Buchta global head of green bonds, following the retirement of the head of the product solutions team Martin Mills, Environmental Finance understands.

  • Investa issues Australia's first corporate domestic green bond

    31 March 2017

    Australian real estate operator Investa Office Fund (IOF) has issued the country's first corporate domestic green bond, raising AUD150 million ($115 million).

  • Shareholders to march on AGM season buoyed by Paris & TCFD

    31 March 2017

    With more than 100 environmental shareholder resolutions already filed, it is financial firms as well as the oil & gas majors that are in the firing line, reports Joe Walsh

  • Carbon pricing needed for post-EU UK

    30 March 2017

    A robust carbon pricing mechanism needs to be the principal driver of decarbonisation for the UK as it leaves the EU, according to the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC).