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  • Green bond market may only reach $40bn, says Moody's

    21 October 2015

    The green bond market stands to massively underperform previous growth estimates for 2015, according to new figures from Moody's.

  • Can Paris deliver a meaningful climate deal?

    07 October 2015

    Attempts 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

  • How COP21 is already starting to change the investment landscape

    24 August 2015

    With 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

  • 13 US corporations pledge $140bn in new investments to cut emissions

    27 July 2015

    A group of 13 major US corporations have pledged to make $140 billion of investments to reduce their carbon emissions.

  • Climate change set to test the resilience of corporates

    13 July 2015

    As 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

  • EU carbon market weekly update - 6 July 2015

    06 July 2015

    Wednesday'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

  • More than $5bn committed to Divest Invest

    03 July 2015

    More 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.

  • IEA calls for spending on renewables to increase to $400bn

    15 June 2015

    Annual 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.

  • Prospects for REDD+ boosted by Bonn agreement

    12 June 2015

    After 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.

  • Business coalition calls for zero emissions 'well before end of century'

    08 June 2015

    A 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.