Archive

  • The thinking behind Amundi's low-carbon push

    14 October 2014

    Amundi's Frédéric Samama talks to Sophie Robinson-Tillett about the firm's decarbonisation pledge, its planned low-carbon fund and how investors should be responding to climate change

  • Mark Carney says climate risks could make most oil reserves 'unburnable'

    14 October 2014

    Bank of England governor Mark Carney has warned that "the vast majority of oil reserves are unburnable" if the world is to avoid catastrophic climate change.

  • Regulators urged to demand better disclosure of climate risks [UPDATED]

    14 October 2014

    Securities regulators should demand that oil, gas and coal companies stress-test the potential impact of climate-related risks on their business, says the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI).

  • Low-carbon transition to benefit finance system – report

    09 October 2014

    Governments, not private investors, will bear the majority of stranded asset costs caused by efforts to meet climate targets, while a transition to low-carbon energy may boost the finance sector's investment capacity, says research.

  • ACT expects American carbon trading operations 'to equal Europe'

    06 October 2014

    Dutch carbon trading company Amsterdam Capital Trading (ACT) has opened an office in California, saying it expects its US operations to eventually equal the size of its activities in Europe.

  • Carbon price to triple in 2015 if 'optimistic' package is agreed by EU, says UBS

    03 October 2014

    The price of carbon in the EU could triple next year if new regulation was introduced, say analysts at UBS.

  • Mirova signs carbon pledge but calls for changes to carbon footprint measurement

    02 October 2014

    Mirova is the first European asset manager to join the Montreal Carbon Pledge (MCP), but says the current way of measuring a carbon footprint does not reflect "the true value" of a firm's portfolio in relation to countering emissions.

  • Hypocrisy index to shame 'green-washing' asset owners

    02 October 2014

    Asset owners that make bold pledges on climate change but fail to take demonstrable action will be named and shamed in a new hypocrisy index.

  • ERAFP to reduce carbon in €750m portfolio

    30 September 2014

    French public service pension scheme, ERAFP, is to reduce by 40% the carbon intensity of a €750 million ($951.4 million) portfolio managed by Amundi.

  • Solactive and Corporate Knights launch low-carbon index

    26 September 2014

    A family of low-carbon indexes has been launched, which claims to be the first to use a system established by the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB).