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  • $2.5trn of global financial assets at risk from climate change

    04 April 2016

    $2.5 trillion of global financial assets are at risk from the effects of climate change, according to a report.

  • Industry and NGOs lobby airlines to use REDD+ carbon offsets

    04 April 2016

    Airlines have been urged to use emission reduction credits generated by forestry protection projects, in two new papers from the Climate Markets & Investment Association and a group of NGOs.

  • Gold Standard extends consultation period on new approach

    04 April 2016

    The Gold Standard certification organisation is extending the consultation period on a major revision of its methodology by two weeks to 15 April.

  • EF BRIEFS: Nairobi, Qatar, California, Poland

    01 April 2016

    Nairobi and Qatar are the latest stock exchanges to sign up to the Sustainable Stock Exchanges' campaign to 'close the environmental, social and governance (ESG) guidance gap'.

  • Nephila: eyeing new markets, new models

    Nephila Capital is raising new capital as it eyes weather hedging opportunities in renewable energy and disruption in cat risk insurance underwriting. Barney Schauble talks to Environmental Finance

  • Deals of the Year 2016

    23 March 2016

    As the renewables and other environmental markets mature, so they continue to innovate and break new ground.

  • Catastrophe Risk 2016: PennUnion Re

    23 March 2016

    When Superstorm Sandy whipped the east coast of the US in 2012, Amtrak was among those that felt the pain.

  • Sustainable forestry 2016: New Forests and Sampoerna Agro

    23 March 2016

    It is hoped that New Forests' joint venture in a sustainable rubber plantation in Indonesia will pave the way for further institutional investment in large-scale, sustainable forestry in the country.

  • M&A 2016: Nordex and Acciona Windpower

    23 March 2016

    Turbine maker Nordex always used to be seen as an acquisition target. But the German firm seized the initiative when it agreed to buy Acciona's wind turbine manufacturing arm, Acciona Wind Power (AWP), in October for €785 million ($880 million), in cash and shares.

  • EF BRIEFS: ESG disclosure, 1366, SolarCity, Ecofys and Generation Foundation

    01 March 2016

    Nasdaq's Nordic and Baltic exchanges have committed to step up requirements for environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure