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• News round-up: EU offshore wind push, muni green project fund, sovereign ESG data set ... and more

  20 November 2020

  European Commission vice-president Frans Timmermans encouraged EU member states to use funds from the €750 billion Next Generation EU fund to make targeted investments in the space to "unlock the necessary private financial flows" to power the expansion.

• People Moves: LSEG, IIGCC, AWEA, HSBC

  26 May 2017

  Kevin Bourne has stepped down as managing director and global head of database services at London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) to focus on another role at a company he founded called LCE Risk.

• Pension giant 'eyes FTSE Russell's new Low-Carbon Economy model'

  06 July 2016

  One of the world's largest pension schemes is gearing up to reallocate 25% of its equities portfolio into FTSE Russell's new Low-Carbon Economy (LCE) model, it was claimed today.

• EU is 'considering its own version of France's energy transition law'

  06 July 2016

  The EU is considering its own version of France's ground-breaking energy transition law, it was claimed today.

• FTSE launches low-carbon index based on new green data platform

  29 April 2016

  FTSE Russell has announced a new low-carbon index based on data from a new data platform it is set to launch next month.

• FTSE creates indexes to exclude coal

  30 July 2015

  FTSE Russell has extended its range of fossil-fuel free indexes with a new series excluding coal and mining firms, as the divestment movement gathers pace.

• Quotes of the quarter

  17 April 2015

  Environmental Finance takes a look back at some of the quotes that defined the first quarter of 2015.

• High times for low-carbon indexes

  18 February 2015

  The oil rout and the intensifying stranded assets debate have boosted investor interest in low-carbon indexes. What are the differences between the growing number of products on offer, and how are they performing? Sophie Robinson-Tillett reports

• FTSE launches first fossil fuel-free index, BlackRock investment product to follow

  29 April 2014

  Index provider FTSE has developed the first index family that excludes fossil fuel-based companies, as 'stranded assets' fears gain momentum among investors.