Graham Cooper

Articles by Graham Cooper

  • IFC's emerging market green bond fund set to close 'in weeks'

    18 January 2018

    The IFC and Amundi's emerging market green bond fund is expected to launch officially early next month, Environmental Finance has learned.

  • RGGI poised for expansion?

    17 January 2018

    The possibility of Virginia joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is to be discussed by the nine current participating states.

  • Green securitisations offer growing EU investment opportunity, says NNIP

    17 January 2018

    Forecasts of rapid growth in green securitisations – based on large numbers of small-scale climate-friendly projects in the EU – promise attractive opportunities for institutional investors, according to NN Investment Partners (NNIP).

  • Survey aims to discover world's greenest financial centres

    16 January 2018

    A survey has been launched that aims to compile a Global Green Finance Index (GGFI) by ranking the world's financial centres according to the quality and depth of their 'green finance' offerings.

  • More corporates seek shelter from the weather

    03 January 2018

    The weather risk management business is in good health and poised for further growth, leading market participants tell Graham Cooper

  • Climate Exchange veterans eye new environmental contracts

    14 December 2017

    A suite of new environmental contracts is planned for launch on the European Energy Exchange (EEX), supported by senior executives of the former Climate Exchange.

  • Stern calls for $40 - $80 carbon price by 2020

    13 December 2017

    Influential economist Nicholas Stern said the price of carbon must rise sharply if the world is to limit global warming in line with the ambitions set out in the Paris Agreement on climate change.

  • TCFD garners support from wide range of corporates and investors

    13 December 2017

    Support for the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) from companies, and investors has grown strongly since the group published its final recommendations in June, its chairman Michael Bloomberg said.

  • $300m fund launched to combat land degradation

    13 December 2017

    Mirova, the sustainable investment arm of French bank Natixis, has formally launched the Land Degradation Neutrality Fund (LDNF) which it has been developing with the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) since 2015.

  • European Commission 'looking positively' at lower capital charges for green loans

    12 December 2017

    The European Commission is favourably disposed to the possibility of lowering capital charges on bank loans for climate-friendly projects, according to its vice president, Valdis Dombrovskis.