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Green bond market may only reach $40bn, says Moody's
21 October 2015The green bond market stands to massively underperform previous growth estimates for 2015, according to new figures from Moody's.
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Can Paris deliver a meaningful climate deal?
07 October 2015Attempts to build a global agreement from a series of national pledges will help industry and financiers plan low-carbon investments beyond 2020, even if they don't restrict global warming to 2°C, says Graham Cooper
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How COP21 is already starting to change the investment landscape
24 August 2015With less than 100 days to go until the start of the Paris climate summit (COP 21), investors are already starting to take note of some major policy announcements, argues Christina Larkin
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13 US corporations pledge $140bn in new investments to cut emissions
27 July 2015A group of 13 major US corporations have pledged to make $140 billion of investments to reduce their carbon emissions.
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Climate change set to test the resilience of corporates
13 July 2015As scientists predict climate change will exacerbate the impact of natural disasters in the future, Miroslav Petkov and Michael Wilkins suggest that companies should prepare to be tested and existing protection measures could soon prove inadequate
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EU carbon market weekly update - 6 July 2015
06 July 2015Wednesday's EU plenary vote on the Market Stability Reserve could give EUA prices a modest boost but the euro/dollar exchange rate will also be a significant factor, says Louis Redshaw
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More than $5bn committed to Divest Invest
03 July 2015More than $5 billion has been committed to a campaign to divest from fossil fuel companies and invest the freed up capital in the low-carbon economy.
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IEA calls for spending on renewables to increase to $400bn
15 June 2015Annual investment in renewable energy needs to increase to $400 billion by 2030 or the chance to avert catastrophic climate change will be "missed forever", the international Energy Agency (IEA) has warned.
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Prospects for REDD+ boosted by Bonn agreement
12 June 2015After 10 years of negotiations over the UN's Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+ ) programme, diplomats in Bonn have made an eleventh hour agreement which will likely be carried into the Paris climate summit later this year.
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Business coalition calls for zero emissions 'well before end of century'
08 June 2015A coalition of businesses and NGOs has written an open letter calling for world leaders to back an ambitious "zero emissions" policy at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21) in December.