Graham Cooper

Articles by Graham Cooper

  • Three Japanese insurers invest in renewable energy power stations

    03 February 2020

    This will be Japan's first commercial offshore wind farms

  • Bonds round-up: Chile, LBBW, Orix, Egypt

    29 January 2020

  • US exchange launches initiatives to support green bond market

    29 January 2020

    MarketAxess, an electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, has launched an initiative to help investors identify bonds with a 'green' label and to access liquidity in these issues.

  • Carbon market trading soars 34% to €194bn in 2019

    27 January 2020

    The value of emission allowances traded in the mandatory carbon markets jumped by 34% last year to €194 billion ($214 billion), according to financial data company Refinitiv.

  • Last chance to vote in Environmental Finance's 2020 Bond Awards

    27 January 2020

    Voting in Environmental Finance's 2020 Bond Awards - which honour leaders in the green, social and sustainability bond markets - will close at midnight on Monday 3 February.

  • Slower growth expected for green bond market in 2020

    22 January 2020

  • Bonds round-up: Ecuador, MunichHyp, Klabin, Mowi, GPIF, UK

    22 January 2020

  • BIS warns of 'green swan' events

    21 January 2020

    The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has underlined the growing concern among central banks about the risks to the financial system arising from climate change in a book entitled The Green Swan - central banking and financial stability in the age of climate change.

  • Most of global GDP depends on nature, says WEF

    20 January 2020

    Some $44 trillion of economic value generation - over half the world's total GDP - is "moderately or highly dependent" on nature and its associated 'ecosystem' services, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF).

  • California plans large green bond in five-year, $12.5bn climate budget

    13 January 2020