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Morgan Stanley launches impact investing competition
15 January 2014Morgan Stanley has launched a global competition to find market-based solutions to environmental and social challenges.
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Clean power to the people
14 January 2014The influential climate campaigner Bill McKibben has turned his sights on demanding that investors ditch fossil fuel stocks. Peter Cripps reports
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EIB green bond hits record-breaking €1.5bn after 'tap'
14 January 2014The European Investment Bank (EIB) has completed a new tranche of one of its green bonds, making it the largest issue in the market.
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Danish pension funds invest in 'groundbreaking' public-private climate fund
14 January 2014Some of Denmark's biggest pension funds and a private investment firm have invested in a climate fund focused on developing countries launched by the Danish government.
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Former Deutsche analysts launch energy consultancy
14 January 2014Mark Fulton and Mark Lewis, both former analysts at Deutsche Bank, have set up a new consultancy to advise on financial and policy risks arising from the global transition from fossil fuels.
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IIGCC joins Climate Bond Standards board
14 January 2014The Institutional Investor Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) has added its weight to an initiative to agree standards for the rapidly growing green bonds market.
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Banks back new transparency guidelines for green bond market
13 January 2014A coalition of 13 major investment banks has backed a set of voluntary principles intended to encourage transparency and integrity in the fast-growing green bonds market.
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ACORE names new president
13 January 2014Michael R Brower had been appointed president and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE).
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Resonance buys four wind farms as HgCapital fund exits UK investments
13 January 2014Alternative asset manager Resonance has snapped up four wind farms in a move that has allowed the first renewables fund set up by HgCapital to exit its UK investments.
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A make-or-break year?
12 January 2014The Warsaw climate talks have done just enough to keep a 2015 deal to succeed the Kyoto Protocol within grasp. But while there were never high expectations of this year's Conference of the Parties to the UN climate convention (COP19), 2014 is set to be a critical year.