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Sweden green lights Vattenfall's coal divestment
04 July 2016Energy firm Vattenfall has been given the green light to divest its lignite coal plants as it looks to focus on clean energy.
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India's EXIM offers to take currency risk on behalf of green bond issuers
01 July 2016The Export-Import Bank of India (Exim) has offered to use its balance sheet strength to take currency risk on behalf of Indian green bond issuers.
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UK's climate secretary sees harder road ahead
29 June 2016The UK's energy and climate change secretary vowed that the country will continue to be a leader on climate change post-Brexit, but admitted its path towards decarbonisation had been made more difficult by the shock move.
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The four potential impacts of Brexit on UK yieldcos
29 June 2016The UK's decision to abandon the EU will have four potential impacts on yieldcos, according to the head of one of the six vehicles listed in the country.
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Brexit 'to hit air pollution and recycling policy'
27 June 2016The UK's shock decision to leave the EU could lead to a weakening of policies relating to recycling and air pollution.
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Renewables investor sentiment hit by Brexit, in Europe as well as UK
24 June 2016The UK's shock Brexit decision will hurt investor sentiment in clean energy projects in the EU as well as the UK, it was claimed today.
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UK climate policy now uncertain
24 June 2016The UK's climate policy was mired in doubt in the wake of the monumental vote to leave the European Union.
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Northern Trust mulls low-carbon smart-beta product
22 June 2016Northern Trust is considering launching a low-carbon smart-beta strategy, Environmental Finance has learned.
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The changing climate for investors
20 June 2016Just as the transition to a low-carbon economy is gathering pace, so are investors' responses.
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'The irresistible force'
17 June 2016Investors are increasingly demanding that companies disclose material climate risks. CalPERS' Anne Simpson tells Peter Cripps why
- 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