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Leading entrepreneurs form sustainable business partnership
13 June 2013A group of leading entrepreneurs has launched a not-for-profit initiative to campaign for sustainable business models.
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First Solar aims to raise $500m in share sale
12 June 2013First Solar plans to sell at least 8.5 million shares to the public, in an offer that could see it raise around $500 million.
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Cheuvreux retains sustainability title in Extel survey
12 June 2013Kepler Cheuvreux has been voted best pan-European brokerage firm for sustainability research in the annual Thomson Reuters Extel survey.
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Wells Fargo's 'green financing' surges in 2012
12 June 2013US bank Wells Fargo more than doubled its environmental loans and investments last year, and claims to be on track to meet its goal of providing $30 billion of "green" finance between 2012 and 2020.
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US investors join business call for action on climate change
12 June 2013US pension funds and investment firms have signed a declaration calling for US politicians to "seize the economic opportunity" of addressing climate change.
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Italy urges companies to report through CDP
11 June 2013The Italian government is to "formally request" that 100 of the country's largest companies and its major cities disclose their environmental data to investors through the CDP.
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First ESG indexes launched for bond investors
11 June 2013A range of more than 500 new fixed income indexes based on environmental, social and governance criteria has been launched today.
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$1.4bn joint venture to be 'Chile's largest renewables provider'
07 June 2013A project developer and a private equity firm have inked a $1.4 billion deal to form a joint venture set to become Chile's largest wind and solar energy provider.
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Allianz's renewable energy investment tops €1.5bn following Google deal
06 June 2013Allianz Capital Partners has acquired a 72MW wind farm in northern Sweden that will supply power to Google's data centre in Finland.
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German energy firm starts clean-tech venture capital unit
06 June 2013One of Germany's leading energy companies has created a venture capital unit to invest in innovative clean technologies.