The green bond market suffered an uncharacteristic fall in activity in the third quarter of 2018.
As the innovative Land Degradation Neutrality fund reaches a $100 million first close, Monique Barbut, Ambroise Fayolle, Rémy Rioux and Philippe Zaouati explain the role of sustainable land management in promoting resilience to climate disasters.
Photos taken at the 2018 Insurance and Climate Risk Americas Conference in New York on the 24th of September
To coincide with our Insurance & Climate Risk Americas conference, Environmental Finance conducted a Q&A interview with keynote speaker Maurice Tulloch, CEO, international insurance, at Aviva.
Peter Cripps asks whether the great Warren Buffett could have been wrong when he said insurers don't need to worry about climate change.
The best remedy for investors' carbon addiction is better quality information about companies' climate strategies, argues Daniel Klier
Last week's Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) in California saw CEOs, investors, political leaders and celebrities step up global action on climate change. Paul Simpson looks at three of the hottest topics
The financial system needs to be reshaped to trigger the investments needed to address climate change, says Kirsten Dunlop, CEO of EIT Climate-KIC, and innovation is crucial to bringing sustainable finance to the next level.
Europe's financial centres are teaming up to mobilise the vast sums of capital needed to meet global climate targets. Under a new Europe-wide initiative, green financial centres are aiming to significantly accelerate the shift to sustainable finance.
Prior to the Paris Agreement the political action on climate focused on sapping the energy out of energy-intensive industries. Now the focus is shifting to the money that funds these industries – including money that will eventually pay for our pensions.
The market for carbon offsets remains buoyant, despite regulatory uncertainty. Elena K. Johansson talks to winners of our annual Voluntary Carbon Markets Rankings to find out why.
Further volatility in the price of EU Allowances (EUAs) is to be expected for the rest of the year, says Louis Redshaw
Standard Chartered has announced that it will stop financing any new coal-fired power projects, in any location, as part of its commitment to support the Paris Agreement on climate change.
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Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) has selected two new indexes from S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) as benchmarks for JPY1.2 trillion ($10 billion) of equity investments managed according to environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria.
Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) has agreed to invest…
S&P Dow Jones Indices and RobecoSAM have excluded Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), Samsung Electronics and healthcare company Bayer from the widely-followed Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World).
Sustainalytics has launched a new risk ratings system it says…
Insurers say they can find financial value in ESG investing, but they have to be wise to investments that don't deliver on their stated goals. And while ESG can mean different things to different stakeholders, a push for standardisation is not always welcome, according to panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's 2018 EMEA conference. Vincent Huck reports
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The Asian Development Bank has issued a $750 million green bond…
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DZ Bank is planning to raise €250 million ($300 million) by issuing…
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and World Bank, issuers of…
Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD) has returned to the green…
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…
BlackRock, with $6.3 trillion assets under management, has joined a group of public and private sector funders in an initiative which seeks to mainstream 'climate infrastructure' in emerging markets.
Danish pension fund Pensionskassernes Administration (PKA) has…
NextEra Energy Resources has agreed to sell a 1.39GW portfolio…