News

  • Insurer launches weather risk desk

    11 June 2013

    Bermuda-based insurance firm Axis Capital Holdings has hired two veterans of the weather risk markets to launch its weather and commodity markets desk.

  • Italy urges companies to report through CDP

    11 June 2013

    The Italian government is to "formally request" that 100 of the country's largest companies and its major cities disclose their environmental data to investors through the CDP.

  • GIB assesses funding needs of anaerobic digestion

    11 June 2013

    The UK's fledgling anaerobic digestion market requires capital investment of about £650 million, according to the nation's Green Investment Bank.

  • First ESG indexes launched for bond investors

    11 June 2013

    A range of more than 500 new fixed income indexes based on environmental, social and governance criteria has been launched today.

  • IEA adds to warnings on 'stranded' energy assets

    10 June 2013

    The International Energy Agency has added its voice to warnings that action to combat climate change threatens to leave energy companies with 'stranded assets'.

  • Private equity ESG management 'reaches new frontier' – study

    10 June 2013

    Management of environmental, social and governance issues by private equity funds and investors has risen in the past 12 months, a study has found.

  • US, China agree deal to cut HFCs

    10 June 2013

    The US and China have agreed a deal to reduce the use of hydrofluorocarbons, a group of potent greenhouse gases found in refrigerants.

  • Environmental services firm in €150m buy-out

    10 June 2013

    A multinational environmental solutions company has taken full ownership of a Latin American joint-venture in a €150 million deal.

  • Investors braced for further Spanish subsidy cuts

    07 June 2013

    Spain is expected to hit investors with further cuts to subsidies for renewables in a move that threatens to push some firms into default.

  • $1.4bn joint venture to be 'Chile's largest renewables provider'

    07 June 2013

    A project developer and a private equity firm have inked a $1.4 billion deal to form a joint venture set to become Chile's largest wind and solar energy provider.