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  • Yieldco JLEN raises £55.6m

    08 February 2017

    UK yieldco John Laing Environmental Assets Group (JLEN) has raised £55.6 million ($69.1 million) by selling new shares.

  • Premiums 4 Good: redefining the role of insurance in society

    07 February 2017

    An initiative from QBE allows the insurer's customers to opt to have up to 25% of their premiums invested responsibly. Tom Herbstein and Andrew Voysey explain why the initiative is an important development

  • Cambridge pushes to become largest university to divest from fossil fuels

    07 February 2017

    Cambridge University's governing body, Regent House, has passed a motion to divest its £5.8 billion ($7.2 billion) endowment fund from fossil fuels. If successful Cambridge would be the largest in the world to do so.

  • China to launch pilot RECs market

    07 February 2017

    China will launch a pilot national renewable energy certificates (RECs) scheme on 1 July 2017, according to the country's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), in a bid to reduce its subsidies to the sector.

  • Pension giant files five environmental shareholder resolutions

    07 February 2017

    A US-based pension fund has filed five environmentally-focused shareholder resolutions with its portfolio companies.

  • First-of-its kind Sustainable Ocean Fund hits the market

    06 February 2017

    A first-of-its-kind fund that aims to scale up sustainable fishing and other marine protection activities while making a commercial return for investors has begun marketing.

  • EU carbon market weekly update - 6 February 2017

    06 February 2017

    EUA prices gained 25 cents last week as supportive energy prices and one less auction led the market higher.

  • L&G makes first US renewable energy debt deal

    06 February 2017

    Legal & General (L&G) has loaned US-based renewables developer Ahana Operations $65.8 million, marking its first foray into the US renewable energy debt market.

  • Renewables fund secures investment from Australia's green bank

    06 February 2017

    A fund that aims to help attract institutional investment in Australian renewable energy has secured a "cornerstone" equity investment from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) – the country's green bank.

  • The PACE quickens

    06 February 2017

    The market for Property Assessed Clean Energy bonds in the US is booming, with $1.7 billion of issues last year. Joe Walsh investigates the secret to its success and explains why it is being rolled out in other countries.