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Platina offloads UK wind farms to Gravis for £52m
20 November 2017Platina Energy Partners has concluded its second sale in less than a month, as it offloaded five wind farms to Gravis Capital Management.
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SUSI energy storage fund signs "milestone" C$120m facility
20 November 2017SUSI Energy Storage Fund (SESF) has signed a financing facility of C$120 million ($93.9 million) with energy storage company NRStor C&I, marking a "major milestone" for the Canadian energy market.
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Axa calls for TCFD to be made mandatory
20 November 2017Financial disclosures on climate risk should become mandatory – as they are in France, according to an executive from insurance giant Axa.
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'Incredible week' as green bond market breaks $100bn barrier
17 November 2017The green and social bond market saw a frenzy of activity this week, after a spate of issues that should propel the green bond market through the $100 billion barrier for the first time.
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Knight to lead HSBC's new sustainable finance centre
17 November 2017Zoe Knight has taken a new role at HSBC as group head of the recently launched Centre of Sustainable Finance.
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InsuResilience set to deploy $550m
16 November 2017An international initiative that aims to provide insurance to 400 million poor and vulnerable people by 2020 has announced additional funding and signed up new partners.
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Societe Generale responds to SDGs with new initiative
15 November 2017Societe Generale is creating a new initiative to help finance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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IEA's new Sustainabilty scenario requires $69 trillion of investment
15 November 2017The International Energy Agency (IEA)'s new scenario based on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will require $69 trillion by 2040.
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Greensphere eyes up to $500m through London IPO
13 November 2017Jon Moulton's Greensphere Capital Partners is looking to list a new sustainability focused vehicle on the London Stock Exchange.
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EIB and China working on "Rosetta Stone" of green finance
13 November 2017An initiative to harmonise taxonomies for eligible environmental projects in the green bond market could lead to the creation of a common language applicable across green finance more broadly.