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Green bond growth slows in Q1, but players remain bullish
08 April 2015The green bond market saw some $8.7 billion of issues in the first quarter of 2015, meaning its rate of growth has slowed since last year.
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UK GIB publishes Handbook to help others assess, monitor and report
20 March 2015The UK's Green Investment Bank (GIB) has published a Green Investment Handbook, as previously revealed by Environmental Finance.
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Sustainability pays off for Alliance Trust as AUM swells to £2bn
06 March 2015Alliance Trust said its increased focus on sustainability has helped push assets under management (AUM) beyond £2 billion ($3 billion).
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Hannon Armstrong eyes further growth following bumper quarter
05 March 2015Renewables and energy efficiency investor Hannon Armstrong cheered shareholders as it projected strong earnings growth for the next two years following a bumper quarter for transactions.
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Candriam Sustainable North America fund wins Rabobank approval
19 January 2015Rabobank is to begin marketing Candriam's Sustainable North America fund to its clients in the Netherlands.
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Profile: Neil Eckert - Aggregated Micro Power
18 November 2014Former Climate Exchange CEO Neil Eckert believes small-scale biomass has an important and potentially lucrative role to play in the energy transition. Peter Cripps reports on his latest venture
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Green bonds: of indexes, verifiers and the pursuit of standards
13 November 2014The question of what is green continues to haunt the green bond market, says Peter Cripps
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The rise of the green bond index
06 November 2014Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays/MSCI and Standard & Poor's have started green bond indexes. What impact will they have on the fledgling market, ask Sophie Robinson-Tillett and Peter Cripps
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HASI raises $62.6m of equity, beating target
03 November 2014Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI) has raised $62.6 million in an equity raise, beating its original target.
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Four US banks veto Australian coal port
30 October 2014Four major US investment banks have ruled out investing in a $26.5 billion coal export project near the Great Barrier Reef, following in the footsteps of five European counterparts.
- Ground-breaking 'Transition Loan Principles' expected by November
- Sustainable bond market sees weakest first-half issuance for four years
- Moody's to close ESG Solutions business following MSCI tie-up
- MSCI and Moody's join forces in 'ground-breaking' partnership
- 'Greenwashing' is the 'Loch Ness monster' of the green bond market
- SBTi CEO steps down
- New ICMA metrics could help 'accelerate' biodiversity finance
- Dutch regulator publishes double materiality guide
- Nature risk tool ENCORE launches 'major' upgrade
- Japan: Australia 'should have issued a transition bond'
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Personality of the year: Sofia Bartholdy
05 July 2024Her work led to the pension fund restricting investment in several oil and gas majors, writes Michael Hurley
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Dutch regulator publishes double materiality guide
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The 'horse has bolted': Challenge to CSDDD & CSRD likely to fail, say observers
05 July 2024A proposal by EU parliamentarians to delay and weaken reporting requirements under landmark EU sustainability regulations has been dismissed as "political gesturing" and is likely to fail, according to observers.
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Major NGOs denounce SBTi offset plans
05 July 2024The debate about whether the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) should allow for the use of offsets within transition plans has continued, with NGOs and indigenous groups on different sides of the argument.
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Starmer's UK is 'back in the race to net zero'
05 July 2024Sustainability-focused investors reacted positively to the landslide victory for Keir Starmer's Labour party in the UK's general election, amid claims that "the UK is back in the race to net zero".