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Backloading to drive '15% global carbon market growth in 2014'
08 January 2014The value of the global carbon markets will rise this year for the first time since 2011 as a result of an agreement to boost the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), analysts have forecast.
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Japanese trading firm buys 90% stake in US wind project
08 January 2014One of Japan's largest trading houses has acquired a 90% stake in a wind farm developed by EDF Renewable Energy.
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Notenstein launches 10 sustainable funds
07 January 2014Notenstein Private Bank has launched 10 sustainable equity funds, marking the first time it has offered such products to institutional investors.
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Tidal power firm is latest to plan public listing
07 January 2014A tidal power project developer and turbine maker is the latest renewables company to eye a stock market flotation.
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2014 to 'mark beginnings of new climate change agenda' – HSBC
06 January 2014Pressure to cut investment in new coal assets will grow, and the march of the green bond market will continue in 2014, as the "beginnings of a new climate agenda" emerge, analysts at HSBC have forecast.
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BlackRock's renewables infrastructure fund 'reaches close'
06 January 2014Asset manager BlackRock's first renewable energy infrastructure fund has reportedly reached a final close.
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Brazil's first solar auction completed
03 January 2014The Brazilian state of Pernambuco has awarded developers contracts to build 123MW of solar power for an average price of R$229 (US$96) in the country's first solar auction.
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$800bn 'oil fund' manager sets up climate change and water reporting framework
03 January 2014The manager of Norway's NOK5 trillion ($800 billion) 'oil fund' has created frameworks to analyse and compare the quality of corporate reporting on climate change and water risks.
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Tianjin sells first carbon permits at half price of Guangdong and Beijing
02 January 2014China's fifth pilot carbon market has been launched in Tianjin, where emitters could pay significantly lower prices to emit one tonne of carbon than in Guangdong and Beijing.
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FCC sells majority stake in renewables arm
02 January 2014Spanish construction firm FCC has sold a majority stake in its renewables division for €8 million ($11 million).
- Texas sues BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard over ESG strategy on coal
- Iceberg launches sovereign climate and biodiversity dataset
- COP29: 'Historic step' for carbon markets, as Article 6 crosses finish line
- IDB Invest and IFC back BBVA Colombia for $100m sustainable bond issuance
- SLBs linked to donations or carbon credit investments are 'promising'
- SEC likely to withdraw climate rules, former Commissioner predicts
- After COP29, can voluntary carbon markets scale again?
- The 'finance COP' short-changed the Global South, say investors
- Barclays begins stress-testing for nature
- Japan expects a 'circle of friends' to issue sovereign transition bonds soon