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UBS sustainable ETFs 'to break through the £500m mark'
21 March 2016Investments in UBS's sustainable exchange traded fund (ETF) business are expected to break through the £500 million ($720 million) barrier this year.
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Osborne urged not to scrap UK carbon reporting
14 March 2016UK Chancellor George Osborne is considering scrapping the requirement for listed companies report on their carbon emissions, according to the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), which has urged him not to take this "valuable" information away from shareholders.
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Norway's sovereign wealth fund divests 58 companies on environmental grounds
11 March 2016Norway's giant sovereign wealth fund divested from 58 companies last year because they were deemed to pose environmental risks.
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Sustainable private equity firm seeks £50m
11 March 2016A private equity firm is looking to raise £50 million ($70 million) to invest in companies that contribute towards the creation of a 'circular economy'.
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Moody's GBA revisions revealed
11 March 2016Moody's Green Bond Assessment (GBA) is "likely" to expand its definition of 'what is green' to include other taxonomies in addition to the one laid out in the Green Bond Principles (GBPs), Environmental Finance has learned.
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$30m fundraise, as Pace 'comes of age'
10 March 2016The US property assessed clean energy (Pace) market has "come of age", according to a company that has just raised $30 million in operating capital to help fund its expansion plans.
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$2bn committed to conservation in US
09 March 2016Private companies were among a raft of organisations to announce more than $2 billion of investments to protect land, water and wildlife in the US.
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Revolver 'to shoot green lending beyond the green bond market'
07 March 2016A local authority has signed a revolving credit facility based on its green bond framework, pioneering a model that could be widely replicated by other borrowers.
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BNP Paribas Aqua launches in sterling
04 March 2016BNP Paribas has launched a sterling version of its Aqua fund.
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Mats Andersson to step down as AP4 CEO
02 March 2016Mats Andersson is to step down as the CEO of Sweden's AP4 pension fund, meaning the pension sector will lose one of its leading advocates for sustainability.