News

• Australian real estate funds, firms lead green rankings

  28 January 2010

  Most real estate funds and companies are not yet actively managing their environmental impacts, according to a report commissioned by three European institutional investors.

• Hermes makes first close on UK clean-tech fund

  28 January 2010

  The UK government's clean-tech private equity fund achieved its first close at £125 million ($202 million) on Tuesday.

• UK biofuel suppliers fall short of sustainability targets

  28 January 2010

  Several major suppliers of transport fuel in the UK failed to meet the sustainability criteria for biofuels in the first year of the government's pioneering Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO).

• Nikko to launch green bond fund in Japan

  28 January 2010

  Nikko Asset Management (Nikko AM) has developed a fund for the Japanese retail market that will invest mainly in 'green' bonds issued by the World Bank.

• Earth Capital Partners hires sustainable ag, forestry team

  28 January 2010

  Earth Capital Partners (ECP) has hired a three-strong sustainable forestry and agriculture team, in advance of the launch of a suite of funds.

• Maplecroft launches US climate indexes

  28 January 2010

  Risk analysis firm Maplecroft has launched a family of indexes to track climate-related innovation and carbon management at some of the biggest companies in the US.

• Climate policies 'generating returns for investors' – Deutsche Bank

  21 January 2010

  Tilting investment portfolios towards companies offering solutions to climate change is already generating outperformance for investors, and will continue to do so, regardless of the disappointing outcome of the Copenhagen climate talks, according to Deutsche Bank.

• Middle East ESG index finally to be launched this year

  21 January 2010

  The first environmental, social and governance (ESG) index of Middle Eastern and North African companies is due to be launched later this year – two years after it was first announced.

• UK's Miliband 'confident' of binding climate pact in Mexico

  14 January 2010

  UN talks in Mexico at the end of this year are likely to produce the legally binding climate change treaty that eluded negotiators in Copenhagen, according to the UK's climate change secretary of state.

• Commission's environment, energy picks please MEPs

  14 January 2010

  The transition to a sustainable economy must be at the heart of all EU policies, said EU environment commissioner-designate Janez Potočnik during a three-hour grilling yesterday by the European Parliament's environment committee.