While insurers are increasingly acute to environmental risks which might impact both sides of their balance sheet, new research has found that their investment strategies are not in line with the Paris Agreement. The research was published the same week Royal Dutch Shell held its AGM and shareholders, including some large insurers, were asked to vote on a climate resolution. Did they stand up to the test? Paul Walsh and Vincent Huck report
Climate policy has long been the subject of bitter political feuds in Australia, leaving the country grappling with policy change every electoral cycle. What does climate action in Australia look like this year? Katie Kouchakji reports
Images from the Water: Risk, Opportunity and Sustainability Conference
More than 100 delegates gathered at Environmental Finance's conference on water, hosted by the London Stock Exchange, to discuss an investment opportunity worth about $7.5 trillion, writes Michael Hurley.
Infrastructure project developers face an urgent choice: benefit from low-carbon opportunities, or lock cities into decades-long dependence on fossil fuels, writes Peter Ellsworth
Is the green bond market evolving into the impact bond market?
Insurers have made efforts to disengage themselves from the coal industry on both sides of the balance sheet, but climate activists say they could do more. Cintia Cheong and Nick Roumpis examine the latest developments
QBE Insurance Australia, the domestic arm of Australia-based underwriter QBE, is to invest A$100 million ($75.2 million) to impact investing globally, via instruments such as green and social impact bonds.
MPs on the UK's Environmental Audit Committee have published…
Insurance company XL Catlin is supporting a project to develop a novel type of carbon credit which it refers to as 'blue carbon resilience credits'.
Aviva has become the latest insurer slammed by the Unfriend Coal…
The chair of HLEG and vice-chair of the TCFD shares his views on the reports' key findings and their implications for the insurance sector.
Further work is required to advance the tricky task of incorporating climate change into natural catastrophe modelling, finds Nick Roumpis
A valuable benefit of green bonds is that they enable fixed income investors to 'engage' with issuers on topics such as climate change, as is already common practice in the equity markets, according to Frederic Samama, co-head of institutional clients coverage at Amundi Asset Management.
Carbon pricing mechanisms – including both taxes and emissions…
US states should issue more bonds and loan guarantees to help…
Numerous developments are helping to drive improvements in corporate reporting of non-financial issues and to raise investor expectations, says Adams Koshy.
African countries have the potential to achieve their sustainability objectives through innovative funding of climate-change projects, including green bonds, say Mindy Hauman and Tallat Hussain
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Discuss the big issues and the strategies that can be deployed to grow the green bond market exponentially over the next decade
More than 200 people attended California's inaugural green bond symposium.
The Green Bond Database is the most comprehensive source of information on the labelled green bond market.
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Wetlands, watersheds and forests will become an acceptable use of proceeds for Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI)-certified green bonds under revised criteria.
Bank of America Corporation has raised $2.25 billion from its…
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has priced its second social…
UK-based Aviva Life & Pensions and an unnamed UK insurer have…
BBVA has tapped the green bond market with the largest ever green…
Luxembourg Stock Exchange has opened up its ‘green exchange’…
DTE Electric, an electricity utility based in Detroit, Michigan,…
Banks are in "the early days" of understanding and addressing the climate risks in their portfolios, a webinar hosted by Environmental Finance heard.
It is important that the recommendations of the Task Force on…
The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD),…
The Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI) initiative is…
Enel Green Power Espana (EGPE), a subsidiary of Spanish energy group Endesa, has revealed plans to splash out €280 million ($329.6 million) on building solar plants and wind farms next year.
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has agreed to…
UK yieldcos have outstripped their North American counterparts…