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  • Profile: Macquarie Infrastructure Debt Investment Solutions

    29 May 2015

    As Macquarie Infrastructure Debt Investment Solutions gears up for a second financial close, Kit Hamilton and Andrew Robertson talk to Sophie Robinson-Tillett

  • Norwegian government backs oil fund coal divestment

    28 May 2015

    Norway's NOK7 trillion ($894 billion) oil fund is to divest more of its coal holdings after the country's politicians gave an earlier-than-expected backing to plans to reduce its exposure to the commodity.

  • Santander and pension funds launch $2bn renewables and water fund

    28 May 2015

    Santander and two Canadian pension funds have launched a $2 billion renewables and water fund, which they plan to make "one of the largest and best-in-class" in the world.

  • Goldman Sachs sets $1bn target for securitised Japanese renewables bonds

    27 May 2015

    Goldman Sachs has established a "first of its kind" facility that aims to issue $1 billion of securitised Japanese renewable energy bonds.

  • Macquarie backs UK solar portfolio in £106m deal

    27 May 2015

    Macquarie has given another vote of confidence to the UK solar market, agreeing a £106 million ($163 million) refinancing deal.

  • Investors managing $12trn call for long-term emissions reduction goal

    26 May 2015

    Investors managing $12 trillion of assets have urged G7 finance ministers to back a long-term emissions reduction plan, to help limit the average global temperature increase to 2⁰C above pre-industrial levels.

  • French companies will be forced to report on climate metrics

    26 May 2015

    The French government is set to pass a law requiring listed companies to report their carbon footprint and the risk climate change poses to them, in a move described as "a game changer" for the low-carbon investment movement.

  • BNP Paribas signs up to Montreal Carbon Pledge

    22 May 2015

    BNP Paribas is the latest investor to throw its weight behind the Montreal Carbon Pledge (MCP) to promote decarbonisation.

  • Axa divests coal as part of climate plan

    22 May 2015

    Axa threw its weight behind the divestment movement today after it pledged to sell its coal assets by the end of the year.

  • Green Climate Fund deemed 'effective' and ready to seek private investment

    22 May 2015

    The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has crossed its fundraising threshold and will begin financing projects and incentivising private-sector investment, it has said.