Peter Cripps

Articles by Peter Cripps

  • Ban Ki-moon challenges investors to double green investments by 2020

    28 January 2016

    UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued a rallying call to investors to double their financing of clean energy by 2020, to build on the commitments of the Paris climate summit.

  • Green Bond comment - January

    27 January 2016

    The green bond market made a solid start to 2016, says Peter Cripps, while the announcement of Moody's assessment methodology marks another interesting stage in its evolution.

  • Green bond market to see at least $55bn of issues in 2016, says HSBC

    27 January 2016

    The green bond market will notch up another year of solid growth, according to analysts at HSBC, who predict between $55 billion and $80 billion of issues in 2016.

  • Q&A with Martin Skancke on the FSB's task force

    22 January 2016

    The PRI's chairman talks to Environmental Finance about the important role of the group.

  • FSB reveals big hitters behind new climate change task force

    22 January 2016

    The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has named the members of its new climate change working group.

  • 'Toolkit' launched to help conservation finance scale up

    20 January 2016

    Green bonds issued by sovereigns to finance environmental conservation, and closed-ended funds focusing on assets such as sustainable timber, are among the products that can help the conservation finance market reach up to $200-$400 billion by 2020, according to a new report.

  • Alliance Trust integrates Sustainable Development Goals into its investments

    19 January 2016

    The asset management arm of Alliance Trust has developed a framework to integrate the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into its investment analysis - and has called on other investors to do the same.

  • VC firm launches renewable heat platform

    18 January 2016

    A platform to invest in renewable heat was launched today, and has made its first investment.

  • Green Charge raises 'milestone' $50m non-recourse debt

    15 January 2016

    Green Charge Networks has raised up to $50 million in a rare example of non-recourse project finance debt for energy storage.

  • Wind and solar boom propels clean energy investment to record $329bn

    14 January 2016

    Investment in clean energy surged to a record $329 billion in 2015, helped by a boom in wind and solar projects which between them accounted for about half of all power generation commissioned in the year.