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  • People Moves: MSCI, WBCSD

    20 October 2017

    MSCI has recruited Panos Seretis as executive director and head of environmental, social and governance (ESG) Research for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

  • SocGen launches ESG Quality and ESG low-carbon indexes

    20 October 2017

    Societe Generale has launched two environmental, social and governance (ESG) indexes - one uses an innovative 'ESG consensus' approach, and the other combines ESG and low carbon.

  • PiP raises £20m to refinance 30MW of solar

    20 October 2017

    UK infrastructure investor the Pensions Infrastructure Platform (PiP) has raised £20 million ($26.4 million) in debt to refinance six solar farms in the country owned by its Multi-Strategy Infrastructure Fund (MSIF).

  • Aberdeen Standard Investments launches impact fund

    20 October 2017

    Aberdeen Standard Investments has launched its first impact investment-focused fund. The fund is also its first since it was created through the merger of Standard Life Investments and Aberdeen Asset management.

  • How to boost the flow of bankable water projects?

    20 October 2017

    There are countless water infra projects that need funding and no shortage of potential investors. But how to bridge the funding gap and create bankable projects asks Aaron Vermeulen

  • Swedbank launches green bond framework, looks to raise €500m

    19 October 2017

    Swedbank has launched a green bond framework as it looks to raise at least €500 million ($590 million).

  • New Forests to acquire 170,000-acre US forest for pension funds

    19 October 2017

    Australian forestry investment manager New Forests has agreed to acquire a 170,000-acre timberlands estate in California from woods products company Roseburg Resources for an undisclosed value on behalf of two unnamed European and North American pension funds.

  • International flights will not be part of EU emissions cap until 2024

    19 October 2017

    EU policymakers have pushed back by four years the date from which emissions from international flights will be counted under the EU-wide Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).

  • Mosaic lays foundations for $307m green securitisation

    19 October 2017

    Solar loan provider Mosaic plans to issue a green asset-backed securitisation worth $307.5 million, its second such issue of 2017, to provide financing for the installation of residential rooftop solar panels.

  • Green bonds round-up, 18 October 2017

    18 October 2017

    Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the world's largest bank, has issued a green bond with a value of about $2.15 billion.

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