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President Trump vs Obama-era climate change policies
24 April 2017Jon Sohn and Andrew Shaw explain how President Trump is attempting to rewrite US environmental regulations.
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ING loan to Philips incentivises greater sustainability
21 April 2017ING has led a group of banks in an innovative loan deal with Philips that links the interest paybable on the loan to the electroics giant's sustainability performance.
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First Pace bonds of the year to raise $444.5m
21 April 2017Ygrene is set to raise $176 million from its first Property Assessed Clean Energy (Pace) bond of the year.
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27 CEOs back TCFD recommendations
21 April 201727 CEOs from major corporations have committed to implement the draft recommendations laid out by the Financial Stability Board's Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
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EF BRIEFS: ABN Amro, NESF, JLEN
21 April 2017ABN Amro has received €150 million ($160 million) of financing as part of the EU president Jean-Claude Juncker's "Investment Plan for Europe", that it will use to finance green loans to the European shipping industry.
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IFC selects Amundi to manage its $2bn emerging market green bond fund
21 April 2017The International Finance Corporation has formally announced the launch of its $2 billion emerging market green bond fund, as exclusively revealed by Environmental Finance last year, and has appointed Amundi to manage it.
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Corporate pension plan sustainability guide launched
21 April 2017Two of the world's largest business-led sustainability initiatives, the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and UN Global Compact, have partnered to create a guide for making corporate pension funds more sustainable.
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Comment: Why impact is the word of the moment
21 April 2017Measuring impact is increasingly a preoccupation of investors in the environmental, social and governance (ESG) space.
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GIB sale reaction - brilliant news or a disaster?
20 April 2017The Green Investment Bank's (GIB) long-expected sale to Macquarie has been controversial - Greenpeace said it was a disaster, but one renewables investor said the GIB would now stop "ruining the market".
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Macquarie could sell 10% of GIB assets following purchase
20 April 2017Up to 10% of the value of Green Investment Bank's (GIB) assets could be sold following its sale to Australian Bank Macquarie.