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The green and sustainability loan market: ready for take-off
20 July 2018Green and sustainability loans are the hot new trend in sustainable finance. Could they outgrow the booming green bond market, ask Nick Roumpis and Peter Cripps.
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The anatomy of a taxonomy
11 July 2018The European Commission has a highly ambitious target - to develop a taxonomy to define what is green and act as a compass for sustainable finance. But there's a long and rocky road ahead for this controversial initiative, find Nick Roumpis and Peter Cripps
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CMS Energy signs first US sustainability-linked loan of $1.4bn
08 June 2018CMS Energy has signed a sustainability-linked revolving credit facility, claiming to have become the first US company to strike a deal of this kind.
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AP7 awards green mandates to KBI and Impax
08 June 2018Swedish national pension fund AP7 has awarded two "green mandates" to KBI Global Investors and Impax Asset Management.
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Investors urged to engage with companies on physical climate risks
07 June 2018Investors are being encouraged to engage with companies on physical climate risks, both reactively and proactively, by identifying those with the biggest exposure to extreme weather events.
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Impact investors eye 8% growth this year, says GIIN
06 June 2018Major impact investors plan to increase their capital allocation by about 8% this year, according to the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN).
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Finance for Tomorrow elects new board
04 June 2018Finance for Tomorrow – an initiative to promote Paris as a centre of sustainable finance – has elected a new board to serve for two years as it begins the second phase of its development.
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Swiss sustainable investment hits record levels
04 June 2018Swiss asset managers and asset owners are increasingly integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, a report from Swiss Sustainable Finance (SSF) has found.
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Greenko expands with Orange Renewables acquisition
04 June 2018India's Greenko Group has expanded its Indian portfolio with the acquisition of Orange Renewables.
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People moves: PKA, Nomura and Obvion
01 June 2018PKA's head of responsible investment Pelle Pedersen has resigned after more than five years.
- AI data company Auquan raises $4.5m with aim to automate ESG reporting
- COP16: 'High-integrity' biodiversity credit framework launches - and says 'no to international offsetting'
- BNP Paribas: US utility green bond issuance 'may rise 50%' in 2025
- Webinar: Vague definition of greenwashing deters 'transition' finance
- Finance emerges as battleground at COP16
- EU-China common ground taxonomy to be expanded at COP29
- Brookfield buys into four UK offshore wind farms
- Co-benefits focus 'a problem' in VCM, says Integrity Council
- Barbados 'set to launch $300m water-focused debt swap'
- Finding alpha: looking at alternative ESG data related to human capital
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Sustainable bonds 'more attractive' to investors if primary spend is clear, says APG
01 November 2024Sustainable bond issuers have been urged to make it clear to investors where they primarily intend to allocate spending, according to pension fund investment firm APG - even if such guidance has to be qualitative rather than quantitative.
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European Leaders at COP16 are Helping Protect Indigenous Lands
01 November 2024Protecting 30% of the Earth should not mean expelling Indigenous Peoples and local communities from their land, write Dr. James C. Deutsch and Dr. Viviana Figueroa
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From COP to coop
01 November 2024While COP16 is important, it is also worth paying attention to a bond issue from a UK chicken producer, write Ulf Erlandsson and Trisha Hutchinson
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Impact could top 15% of UK's total AUM by 2030, investors predict
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Gaps remain despite progress on PAI reporting, as regulators told to step up scrutiny
01 November 2024Gaps remain in financial institutions' reporting of the 'principal adverse impacts' (PAIs) of investments, and despite gradual improvements in some areas EU regulators were told to "increasingly challenge" investors on their reporting.