Madeleine Jenkins

Articles by Madeleine Jenkins

  • BlueOrchard to launch second impact insurance fund

    16 March 2022

    Investment manager BlueOrchard Finance said the impact-focussed insurance fund it manages is fully deployed, and it plans to launch a follow-up fund over the course of the next two months.

  • Microsoft among buyers of blue carbon credits from giant mangrove project

    15 March 2022

    Microsoft and Trafigura are among the buyers of the first three million carbon credits to be generated by the world's largest mangrove restoration project.

  • TNFD 'beta' framework to be launched "next week"

    11 March 2022

    The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) said the first draft of its guidance framework will be released on 15 March.

  • Loan round-up: Link, CNGR, Harland & Wolff ... and more

    10 March 2022

  • Asian sustainable farming is 'overlooked investment opportunity'

    09 March 2022

    European investors are overlooking low-carbon opportunities in Asian farming in favour of new agricultural technologies, Proterra Investment Partners told Environmental Finance.

  • Over half of UK pension funds invest in impact

    08 March 2022

    More than half of UK pension funds hold some form of impact investment, a survey of UK pension funds found.

  • Gender-lens scorecard identifies leaders and laggards

    08 March 2022

    Gender-lens themed funds managed by Pax, UBS and Nordea were ranked among top performers in a scorecard which left BMO- and Daiwa-managed funds languishing at the bottom end of the ranking.

  • Deutsche Bank industry loans responsible for 30.8m tonnes of CO2 in 2021

    04 March 2022

    Deutsche Bank calculated that its corporate industry loan book financed 30.8 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year (MtCO2e/y) in 2021.

  • Gresham House draws up sustainable forestry charter

    04 March 2022

    Gresham House, the UK's largest commercial forestry asset manager, has drawn up a set of sustainability metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) for its £3 billion ($4 billion) of forestry assets.

  • Sustainability-linked bonds 'risk green/social-washing'

    04 March 2022

    Columbia Threadneedle Investments has warned that the sustainability-linked bond (SLBs) market risks accusations of green- and social-washing due to unambitious target setting.