Michael Hurley

Articles by Michael Hurley

  • Barclays plans to double green bond investments to £4bn

    20 December 2018

    Barclays plans to grow its investments in green bonds to £4 billion ($5 billion), having already broken through its original target to commit £2 billion.

  • Green Bonds round-up, 19 December

    19 December 2018

    The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has allocated THB5 billion ($152 million) to buy the whole of a two-tranche green bond offering from Thailand's B. Grimm Power.

  • Nine banks add their backing to Principles for Responsible Banking

    18 December 2018

    A further nine banks and eight other stakeholders have backed the fledgling Principles for Responsible Banking, the UN Environment Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) has revealed.

  • Investors plan to grow ESG allocations despite greenwashing concern

    18 December 2018

    Most institutional investors plan to grow their allocation to environmental, social and governance (ESG)-themed strategies in 2019, despite many being concerned by the risk of greenwashing, according to a survey by Natixis Investment Managers.

  • Henkel signs €1.5bn sustainability-linked loan

    17 December 2018

    Chemical and consumer goods company Henkel has signed a €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion) loan, which will pay interest at a rate tied to the company’s performance on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.

  • COP24 sees historic agreement on Paris rulebook, but work remains

    17 December 2018

    A historic agreement on the rules that will govern the Paris Agreement has been sealed at the Katowice climate change conference (COP 24), but countries failed to agree changes to strengthen emissions trading schemes.

  • Carbon markets reap rewards of regulation

    17 December 2018

    Carbon markets in North America and Europe have been buoyed by legislative changes introduced last year, and the momentum looks set to continue into 2019, the winners of Environmental Finance's Market Rankings tell Michael Hurley

  • People Moves: BNP Paribas, Boralex, ICG

    14 December 2018

    BNP Paribas Asset Management has hired Carbon Tracker Initiative head of research and managing director Mark Lewis.

  • UniCredit launches European green bond ETF

    14 December 2018

    A subsidiary of Italian bank UniCredit has launched an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that will invest in green bonds from European issuers.

  • Financial institutions to be held to account on climate by ISO standard

    14 December 2018

    A framework that is designed to assess the impact on climate change of financial institutions’ investments is to be launched next year.