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Water trading could be worth $13.4bn a year
23 August 2016A $13.4 billion-a-year water trading market could be set up to help alleviate some of the supply shortage problems that afflict many parts of the globe, according to new research.
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Green bond market breaks through $150bn barrier
22 August 2016The total amount of capital raised by green bonds has surpassed $150 billion, as the rapidly evolving market continues to set new records.
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Internet of things to 'usher in new epoch' for sustainable investors
22 August 2016The growth of the internet of things (IoT) is set to usher in a new era for investors, and will prove a "gamechanger" in terms of achieving sustainability through innovation.
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Reinsurers should reassess catastrophe exposure - S&P
18 August 2016The likelihood of reinsurers failing to break even in a calendar year is now twice as likely than in 2012, owing to firms' exposure to certain catastrophe events, according to a report by rating agency S&P.
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Natural disasters cause $68bn of losses in H1
18 August 2016A spate of thunderstorms in the US and Europe, and wildfires in Canada helped push the economic losses caused by natural disasters to $68 billion in the first half of 2016.
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Yieldco Pattern Energy buys wind stake after equity raise
17 August 2016US yieldco Pattern Energy plans to buy a 50% stake in the 180MW Armow wind farm, using the proceeds of a recent equity raise.
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NRG Yield prices $350m of notes
16 August 2016Yieldco NRG Yield has priced $350 million of senior notes.
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Extreme weather pushes Achmea into the red
15 August 2016Dutch insurer Achmea has blamed 'supercell thunderstorms' for pushing it into a first-half loss.
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Industrial waste water fund reaches $320m final close
12 August 2016A "first-of-its-kind" fund that invests in industrial water infrastructure has reached a $320 million final close, Environmental Finance can reveal.
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Profile: Resonance's Industrial Water Infrastructure fund
12 August 2016Capital is flowing into the first fund of its kind to invest in industrial water recovery projects, reports Peter Cripps
- La Banque Postale invests in ESG data startup
- France launches voluntary biodiversity credit market
- BNP Paribas targets $500m for developed markets forestry fund
- COP29: Financing Net Zero
- Artesian: Two-way coupons could 'reignite' SLB market
- Finance Earth plans for life after Federated Hermes following withdrawal from collaborations
- Converting Bridgerton to Bog Hall
- EU countries failing to transpose CSRD risk increasing costs of compliance, observers say
- EU countries reject move to weaken Deforestation Regulation
- Fight or flight: Contract and financing considerations for UK SAF projects
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Webinar: COP29 a missed opportunity to support private sector transition planning
22 November 2024A lack of progress on negotiations at COP29 is undermining hopes that countries could support the creation of an international framework that would support private sector transition planning, a webinar hosted by the IFC and Environmental Finance heard.
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Bahamas signs 'ground-breaking' $300m debt-for-nature loan deal
22 November 2024The Bahamas has signed a $300 million loan with Standard Chartered as part of a ground-breaking marine conservation-focused debt conversion transaction developed with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
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Debt-for-nature deals are 'growing very rapidly and are very scalable'
22 November 2024The nature financing gap remains concerningly wide, but the increasingly active debt-for-nature market offers hope that the tide is turning. Ahren Lester reports
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Scaling Biodiversity Credits
21 November 2024The International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity credits launched at COP16 a framework consisting of 21 High-Level Principles to ensure the high-integrity of the biodiversity credit market. Ingrid Kukuljan explains what they hope to achieve
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Account for nature on balance sheets, says Sustainable Markets Initiative
21 November 2024The public and private sectors have been encouraged to account for nature as an asset by the Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI) to deliver more accurate balance sheet information.