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Asset manager buys EIB's biggest SEK green bond of 2013
19 July 2013The European Investment Bank has issued its biggest Swedish kronor-denominated green bond of 2013, with a Scandinavian asset manager the single buyer.
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Green Deal Finance Company to woo institutional investors
18 July 2013The company that provides loans under the UK's Green Deal domestic energy efficiency programme hopes to raise funds from institutional investors in a year, it said today.
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Ryanair tops list of airline emitters in EU carbon market
18 July 2013Ryanair, Lufthansa and easyJet were the biggest emitters of carbon dioxide among airlines within the EU Emissions Trading System in 2012, according to Carbon Market Data.
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Bullish outlook for energy storage, say analysts
17 July 2013Increasing power generation from wind farms and solar panels coupled, in many countries, with high electricity prices and declining feed-in tariffs, will trigger a five-fold increase in demand for energy storage systems by 2020, analysts predict.
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UK's Green Investment Bank toasts whisky deal
17 July 2013The UK's Green Investment Bank (GIB) contributed to a £1.2 million ($1.8 million) investment that will allow a Scottish whisky distillery to install a biomass boiler.
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KKR aims to apply ESG across entire business
17 July 2013Private equity giant KKR has pledged to ramp up its focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues in coming months, and aims to expand the initiative across the breadth of its business.
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Boston Common hires from EIRIS
17 July 2013Lisa Hayles is leaving EIRIS, the UK-based provider of research on environmental, social and governance issues for the investment community, to join Boston Common Asset Management as a client portfolio manager.
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Markit registry adds UK forest carbon credits
16 July 2013Markit Group has started providing registry services for the UK's Woodland Carbon Code.
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Investors demand review into climate change and resource depletion
16 July 2013An alliance of investors has demanded the launch of an inquiry into why the UK Treasury scrapped plans for a review of the impact of resource depletion and climate change on growth prospects.
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Spain deals '€1.35bn' blow to renewables firms
15 July 2013Spain's latest planned subsidy cuts will cost the renewables sector €1.35 billion ($1.8 billion), according to a research note.
- 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
- Texas sues BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard over ESG strategy on coal
- After COP29, can voluntary carbon markets scale again?
- Debt-for-nature deals are 'growing very rapidly and are very scalable'
- The 'finance COP' short-changed the Global South, say investors
- EU proposal to bring sustainable finance rules into single regulation risks 'chaos'