Joe Walsh

Articles by Joe Walsh

  • LGIM outline climate voting intentions to 84 companies

    04 April 2017

    Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has written to 84 unnamed companies warning it will support climate-related resolutions at this year's upcoming annual general meeting (AGM) season and vote against those that fail to embrace the transition to a low-carbon economy.

  • Kenya launches green bond programme

    04 April 2017

    Kenya has launched a green bond programme with an eye to see the country's first issue by November. The programme's objective is to grow capacity for green bond issuance in the country, establish a framework and standards, develop licensed verifiers and look to catalyse similar programmes across East Africa.

  • UBS continues to build sustainability team with appointment of Freedman

    03 April 2017

    Swiss bank UBS has appointed Stephen Freedman as head of sustainable investing solutions for the wealth management, Americas division.

  • European Commission's sustainable finance committee targets investment chain transformation

    03 April 2017

    The European Commission's High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance will focus on transforming the entire investment and lending chain into a sustainable financial system.

  • CIP to invest $81m in US onshore wind farm

    03 April 2017

    Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) is set to make an $81 million equity investment in an onshore wind farm in the US.

  • Investa issues Australia's first corporate domestic green bond

    31 March 2017

    Australian real estate operator Investa Office Fund (IOF) has issued the country's first corporate domestic green bond, raising AUD150 million ($115 million).

  • Shareholders to march on AGM season buoyed by Paris & TCFD

    31 March 2017

    With more than 100 environmental shareholder resolutions already filed, it is financial firms as well as the oil & gas majors that are in the firing line, reports Joe Walsh

  • 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).

  • Private equity firm reaches first close on circular economy fund

    28 March 2017

    A UK-based private equity firm is looking into a second fundraise after reaching first close of an undisclosed amount for its maiden fund, Environmental Finance understands.

  • Hannon Armstrong issues $84m green bond assessed by Moody's

    28 March 2017

    Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure (HASI) has, for the first time, appointed a credit rating agency to assess the green credentials of its $84 million bond, in a move it believes could help it trade at a premium in the future.