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Banks must do more on climate – BankTrack
02 April 2009Banks are not doing enough to ensure they are not "financing climate catastrophe", BankTrack has said.
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A bond boost for green tech markets?
01 April 2009A new concept in public finance – voluntary environmental improvement bonds – could unlock massive untapped retail demand for a whole range of environmental technologies, says Michael Curley
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NGOs applaud Standard Chartered's environmental policies
26 March 2009Leading emerging markets bank Standard Chartered has unveiled what is understood to be one of the banking sector's most comprehensive sets of environmental and social sector position statements – and has received a ringing endorsement from leading NGOs.
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An environmental sub-prime crisis?
01 March 2009The banking sector is beginning to come to terms with its sub-prime exposures, but do environmental risks pose as great a threat? Greg Larkin warns of an impending flood of defaults – and risks going unmanaged
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Co-op Bank rejects £1BN on ethical grounds
01 March 2009The Co-operative Bank has turned down more than £1 billion ($1.5 billion) of "unethical" business since 1992, it announced last month.
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Newcombe's C-Quest plans carbon fund
01 March 2009C-Quest Capital, the Washington, DC-based firm headed by carbon market veteran Ken Newcombe, is to begin marketing a managed carbon fund with the ambition of raising "several hundred millions of dollars".
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Man to liquidate CDM fund
01 March 2009MTM Capital Partners, a subsidiary of the Man Group, has decided to liquidate its €400 million China Methane Recovery Fund.
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Co-op Bank rejects £1 billion on ethical grounds
05 February 2009The Co-operative Bank has turned down more than £1 billion ($1.5 billion) of "unethical" business since 1992, it announced this week, as it launched the fifth update of the standards organisations must meet to open accounts or receive loans and financing.
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Export credit agencies force Ilisu suspension
01 February 2009The German, Swiss and Austrian export credit agencies (ECAs) have suspended guarantees for the controversial Ilisu dam project in Turkey.
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Norway puts €30m into carbon fund
01 February 2009The Norwegian government has invested €30 million in the Nordic Environment Finance Corporation's Carbon Fund.