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Kochetygova bolsters Northern Trust's ESG team
15 July 2016Julia Kochetygova, former head of sustainability indices at S&P DJI, has been appointed to Northern Trust's environmental, social and governance (ESG) team.
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Northern Trust and Stoxx launch ESG ETFs
15 July 2016Northern Trust has launched two exchange-traded funds (ETFs) based on environmental, social and governance (ESG) indexes created by Stoxx.
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Natural Capital Protocol launches
14 July 2016A framework has been launched to help businesses incorporate 'natural capital' factors into their accounting processes.
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EBRD issues its biggest ever green bond
14 July 2016The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has priced its largest ever green bond, in an issue that was upsized to $650 million.
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€600m African clean energy guarantee facility planned
13 July 2016A €600 million ($650 million) facility to provide guarantees to investments in clean energy in Africa is being planned, Environmental Finance has learned.
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Meehan steps down at GRI
08 July 2016Michael Meehan has stepped down as CEO of Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), with immediate effect - just days ahead of the closing of a consultation period on its latest set of standards.
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Baldinger leaves RobecoSAM to become UBS sustainability head
08 July 2016Michael Baldinger is to step down as CEO of RobecoSAM, and will lead UBS's efforts to become a "leader" in the sustainable asset management space.
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KGAL to launch fourth renewables fund
07 July 2016Asset manager KGAL is launching its fourth Enhanced Sustainable Power Fund (ESPF 4), which aims to raise €500 million ($550 million).
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Pension giant 'eyes FTSE Russell's new Low-Carbon Economy model'
06 July 2016One of the world's largest pension schemes is gearing up to reallocate 25% of its equities portfolio into FTSE Russell's new Low-Carbon Economy (LCE) model, it was claimed today.
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EU is 'considering its own version of France's energy transition law'
06 July 2016The EU is considering its own version of France's ground-breaking energy transition law, it was claimed today.
- La Banque Postale invests in ESG data startup
- COP29: Financing Net Zero
- France launches voluntary biodiversity credit market
- BNP Paribas targets $500m for developed markets forestry fund
- 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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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.
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UN Principles for Responsible Banking cuts reporting requirements
21 November 2024