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  • Green finance - at a tipping point?

    24 October 2016

    Eric Usher, head of the UNEP Finance Initiative, tells Graham Cooper about the challenges facing the organisation as it prepares to celebrate its 25th anniversary.

  • US insurers 'turning blind eye to climate change'

    21 October 2016

    Many US insurers are still turning a blind eye to climate change, with less than 20% attaining high scores for their climate risk reporting, a study has warned.

  • Deutsche Bank African renewables fund backed in $745m GCF funding round

    21 October 2016

    An African renewable energy fund managed by German lender Deutsche Bank has secured an $80 million anchor investment from the Green Climate Fund (GCF).

  • Brookfield and Appaloosa mull TerraForm swoop

    20 October 2016

    Brookfield Asset Management and Appaloosa Management have reiterated their interest in buying yieldco TerraForm Power (TERP), controlled by stricken renewables giant SunEdison.

  • KBN prices third green bond

    20 October 2016

    Norwegian public sector lender Kommunalbanken Norge (KBN) has priced a $500 million green bond, in its third foray into the market.

  • Hedging, whatever the weather

    As renewable energy becomes an increasing part of the grid, the volatility it creates is generating demand for weather hedging products. Q&A with Stuart Brown, Head Origination Weather & Energy EMEA APAC, at Swiss Re Corporate Solutions.

  • Green fingers or green washing: sustainability research takes a look at green bonds

    The green bond market continues to grow at a phenomenal rate: the Climate Bonds Initiative has forecast $100 billion of issuance for 2016.

  • 'People need nature'

    Agustín Silvani, Vice President of Conservation Finance at Conservation International, explains how this is more than a tagline – it's a call to action now codified in the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement.

  • The process of integrating the environment and finance has only just begun

    19 October 2016

    The 'green economy' is a hot topic at the moment. It moved up the agenda thanks to the game-changing Paris climate agreement. And momentum continued to grow this year as a result of the importance that the G20 has placed on 'green finance'.

  • Earth Capital secures initial investment for sustainable technology fund

    19 October 2016

    Earth Capital Partners (ECP) said it has secured the first investments into a new sustainable technologies fund it is managing on behalf of the Nobel Sustainability Trust.