Graham Cooper

Articles by Graham Cooper

  • GRI's sustainability reporting standards replace guidelines next month

    19 June 2018

    From 1 July, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) will support only companies that use its Sustainability Reporting Standards, not those that persist with its older reporting guidelines.

  • ICMA issues guide to link SDGs to green bond market

    15 June 2018

    A guide to help issuers and investors understand how green, social and sustainability bonds contribute to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been produced by the International Capital Market Association (ICMA).

  • Development bank finance for climate projects jumps 28%

    14 June 2018

    Financing of climate-related projects by multilateral development banks (MDBs) soared 28% last year to a record high of $35.2 billion.

  • Green bond round-up, 13 June 2018

    13 June 2018

    DNB Boligkreditt, a subsidiary of Norwegian bank DNB, has raised €1.5 billion ($1.76 billion) from its first green covered bond.

  • Venture firm raises $350m to digitise traditional industries

    13 June 2018

    G2VP, a new venture capital firm, which aims to "unlock previously unidentified paths to sustainability and resource efficiency" has raised $350 million for its first fund.

  • Thimann leaves Axa for Athora in Germany

    11 June 2018

    Christian Thimann, a leading figure in several sustainable finance initiatives, has joined Bermuda-based insurance company Athora, after four and a half years in senior roles at Axa Group.

  • Investors offered tool to model low-carbon transition risk

    08 June 2018

    A modelling tool to help investors and regulators assess how the transition to a low-carbon economy will impact the financial performance of infrastructure investments, has been launched by the ClimateWise Insurance Advisory Council.

  • Economics, not policy, will strand fossil fuel assets, say academics

    07 June 2018

    Demand for fossil fuels will decline dramatically in coming years, as the cost of low-carbon energy and transport continues to fall, irrespective of any tightening of climate change policies, according to a research study.

  • Impax closes NEF III private equity fund with €357m

    07 June 2018

    Impax Asset Management has announced the final close of its NEF III fund, which will make private equity investments in renewable energy infrastructure, having raised €357 million ($422 million).

  • Green bond round-up, 6 June 2018

    06 June 2018

    The Bank of China (BoC) has issued one green and one sustainability bond at the same time, marking the first dual issuance of this sort.