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  • Climate Endowment to launch €500m forestry fund

    14 October 2020

    The Climate Endowment Group is gearing up to launch a forestry impact fund with an initial target size of about €500 million ($590 million), Environmental Finance can reveal.

  • 'Climate endowment' launches €500m hydropower fund

    07 October 2020

    A 'climate endowment' looking to replicate the alternative investment strategies of Harvard and Yale universities has launched a hydropower impact fund targeting €500 million ($588 million) in investments.

  • People Moves: CalSTRS, BNP Paribas, ERAFP, GWEC, FC4S and Cornerstone

    26 October 2018

    Kirsty Jenkinson has been appointed as director of corporate governance at the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) and replaces Anne Sheehan, who retired in March.

  • The big debate: A carbon tax or carbon trading?

    19 July 2017

    The Paris Agreement saw governments aim to reduce warming to below 2°C. But is carbon trading or a carbon tax the best policy instrument to reduce emissions?

  • Final TCFD report supported by investors with $25trn

    29 June 2017

    The Financial Stability Board's (FSB) Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) has released its final report, with the public support of investors with roughly $25 trillion in assets under management. Other businesses with a combined market capitalisation of approximately $3.5 trillion have also supported the recommendations.

  • Carbon pricing needed for post-EU UK

    30 March 2017

    A robust carbon pricing mechanism needs to be the principal driver of decarbonisation for the UK as it leaves the EU, according to the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC).

  • ERAFP selects asset managers for €350m of funds

    11 January 2017

    The French public services additional pension scheme (ERAFP) has awarded two private equity mandates with a combined value of approximately €350 million ($370.5 million), which will be in fitting with the firm's low-carbon socially responsible investing (SRI) approach.

  • Carbon Cutter

    28 December 2016

    Climate considerations are central to a pension fund's fiduciary duty, says ERAFP's Philippe Desfossés. Joe Walsh reports

  • IETA calls for swift agreement on EU ETS

    12 December 2016

    The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) has called on the European Parliament's environment committee to quickly come to an agreement on proposed amendments to the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), after the initial 8 December deadline was missed.

  • Quotes of the Quarter

    26 June 2015

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