Peter Cripps

Articles by Peter Cripps

  • Financiers praise 'Positive Impact' Principles

    30 January 2017

    The Principles for Positive Impact Finance were hailed as "an important step in ... overcoming the funding gap for sustainable development" at their launch today in Paris.

  • Buffett's MidAmerican taps green bond market

    27 January 2017

    MidAmerican Energy has issued an $850 million green bond - the first from a company in Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway group.

  • How to grow the US green bond market

    24 January 2017

    California Treasurer John Chiang conducted a 'listening tour' of the green bond market. A new report reveals the feedback on the state of the market, and the barriers that need to be overcome if it is to fulfil its potential. Peter Cripps reports

  • Investment principles to be launched to help meet Sustainable Development Goals

    23 January 2017

    An initiative will be launched next week to help align business and investment with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

  • Obama gives $500m to GCF in final act

    20 January 2017

    Barack Obama has given a further $500 million to the UN Green Climate Fund, in one of his final acts as President.

  • Conservation finance 'sees $8.2bn of private capital'

    12 January 2017

    The private sector has committed $8.2 billion of capital into conservation investments between 2004 and 2015, a report has found, with "dramatic growth" coming in the last two years.

  • Environmental concerns dominate WEF's risk report

    11 January 2017

    Environmental concerns are "more prominent than ever" in the annual catalogue of risks threatening the world, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF).

  • ​Pension fund licenses two ESG indexes

    04 January 2017

    Two new environmental, social and governance (ESG) indexes have been licensed to a pension fund.

  • Comment: The Paris Agreement should not be Trumped

    01 January 2017

    After the celebrations sparked by the Paris Agreement in 2015, followed by its earlier-than- expected ratification, Donald Trump has delivered a shock to the system, says Peter Cripps.

  • 50 shades of green bonds - and 50 ways of assessing them

    29 December 2016

    Ratings agencies have weighed into the green bond market in the past year, adding to the raft of existing tools for assessing bonds. Where is this increasingly crowded marketplace heading, asks Peter Cripps