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  • Energy efficiency stocks outperform in HSBC index

    14 June 2013

    Energy efficiency stocks have led the way in the HSBC's Climate Change Index in the first half of this year, driven by companies in North America – a trend the bank expects to continue.

  • Santander named Global Sustainable Bank at FT/IFC awards

    14 June 2013

    Santander has been named Global Sustainable Bank of the year at the Financial Times/International Finance Corporation Sustainable Finance Awards.

  • Reporting: the next generation

    13 June 2013

    The Global Reporting Initiative has launched the fourth generation of its sustainability reporting guidelines. What will be the impact on companies and investors, asks Jennifer Iansen-Rogers.

  • Investors call on G8 leaders to promote sustainability reporting

    13 June 2013

    Investors and financial institutions with $2 trillion of assets under management have urged G8 leaders to promote corporate sustainability reporting when they meet next week.

  • Solar standardisation platform raises $2m

    13 June 2013

    A company that assesses the credit-worthiness of non-utility scale solar projects has raised $2 million to help it scale up to meet growing demand from investors.

  • Cheuvreux retains sustainability title in Extel survey

    12 June 2013

    Kepler Cheuvreux has been voted best pan-European brokerage firm for sustainability research in the annual Thomson Reuters Extel survey.

  • Wells Fargo's 'green financing' surges in 2012

    12 June 2013

    US 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.

  • New renewables firm plans €150m fund

    12 June 2013

    A new solar asset management business has unveiled plans to raise €150 million ($199.1 million) for its inaugural fund.

  • Climate fund reaches €60m first close

    11 June 2013

    A fund seeking to raise €200 million to support sustainable land-use and ecosystem services has reached a first close, Environmental Finance can reveal.

  • Italy urges companies to report through CDP

    11 June 2013

    The 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.