Archive

  • Banks must do more on climate – BankTrack

    02 April 2009

    Banks are not doing enough to ensure they are not "financing climate catastrophe", BankTrack has said.

  • A bond boost for green tech markets?

    01 April 2009

    A 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

  • NGOs applaud Standard Chartered's environmental policies

    26 March 2009

    Leading 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.

  • An environmental sub-prime crisis?

    01 March 2009

    The 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

  • Co-op Bank rejects £1BN on ethical grounds

    01 March 2009

    The Co-operative Bank has turned down more than £1 billion ($1.5 billion) of "unethical" business since 1992, it announced last month.

  • Newcombe's C-Quest plans carbon fund

    01 March 2009

    C-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".

  • Man to liquidate CDM fund

    01 March 2009

    MTM Capital Partners, a subsidiary of the Man Group, has decided to liquidate its €400 million China Methane Recovery Fund.

  • Co-op Bank rejects £1 billion on ethical grounds

    05 February 2009

    The 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.

  • Export credit agencies force Ilisu suspension

    01 February 2009

    The German, Swiss and Austrian export credit agencies (ECAs) have suspended guarantees for the controversial Ilisu dam project in Turkey.

  • Norway puts €30m into carbon fund

    01 February 2009

    The Norwegian government has invested €30 million in the Nordic Environment Finance Corporation's Carbon Fund.