Peter Cripps

Articles by Peter Cripps

  • Northam to head GIB as Kingsbury leaves role

    25 April 2017

    Shaun Kingsbury will step down as CEO of the Green Investment Bank (GIB) following its acquisition by a consortium led by Australian bank Macquarie Group for £2.3 billion ($2.9 billion).

  • IFC selects Amundi to manage its $2bn emerging market green bond fund

    21 April 2017

    The International Finance Corporation has formally announced the launch of its $2 billion emerging market green bond fund, as exclusively revealed by Environmental Finance last year, and has appointed Amundi to manage it.

  • Comment: Why impact is the word of the moment

    21 April 2017

    Measuring impact is increasingly a preoccupation of investors in the environmental, social and governance (ESG) space.

  • GIB sale reaction - brilliant news or a disaster?

    20 April 2017

    The Green Investment Bank's (GIB) long-expected sale to Macquarie has been controversial - Greenpeace said it was a disaster, but one renewables investor said the GIB would now stop "ruining the market".

  • GIB sold to Macquarie-led consortium for £2.3bn

    20 April 2017

    The Green Investment Bank (GIB) has been controversially sold to a consortium led by Australian bank Macquarie for £2.3 billion ($2.9 billion).

  • ESG is correlated to performance in fixed income, study finds

    19 April 2017

    There is a clear correlation between environmental, social and governance data and credit default swap spreads and credit ratings, research has found, although neither fully price-in the risks implied by this data.

  • Introducing the Principles for Positive Impact Finance

    19 April 2017

    The Principles have been designed to help meet the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals. But how will they be implemented? Peter Cripps reports

  • Insurers' strategic responses to climate change

    11 April 2017

    The third and final part of this series of features about the insurance sector looks at group level responses to climate change. Peter Cripps reports

  • Scaling up the energy efficiency market

    03 April 2017

    Meeting the EU's ambitious 2030 target for energy efficiency improvements will require more private finance, better data and standardisation, reports Peter Cripps

  • Foresight shrugs off Brexit

    29 March 2017

    UK based renewables asset manager Foresight Group has shrugged off the potential impact of Brexit, claiming the infrastructure space is resilient.