Peter Cripps

Articles by Peter Cripps

  • '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.

  • BlackRock launches its first sustainable bond ETF

    13 January 2016

    BlackRock has continued to ramp up its range of environmental, social and governance (ESG)-themed products, with the launch of its first sustainable bond exchange traded fund (ETF).

  • Profile: Brown Advisory Large-Cap Sustainable Growth Strategy

    12 January 2016

    Having an environmental strategy can give stocks the edge, Karina Funk tells Peter Cripps

  • HASI agrees $161m term loan for residential solar assets

    08 January 2016

    Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI) has agreed $161.6 million of debt from Deutsche Bank, secured by the cash-flows generated by rooftop solar assets.

  • OPIC green guarantees rise to nearly $350m following spate of issues

    06 January 2016

    The US government-backed Overseas Private Investor Corporation (OPIC) issued a spate of 'green guarantees' towards the end of 2015, bringing the total amount it has raised and outstanding through these instruments to nearly $350 million.

  • New Forests in sustainable Indonesian rubber deal

    23 December 2015

    Forestry investment manager New Forests has invested in a rubber plantation in Indonesia, in a deal it says will pave the way for more institutional investments in large-scale, sustainable forestry in the country.