Archive

  • Partnership formed ahead of 'solar upsurge' in Myanmar

    27 May 2014

    Solar firms Sunlabob Renewable Energy and Relitec have teamed up with the aim of developing the market within Myanmar – formerly Burma.

  • Investors must look deeper at carbon risks, says S&P

    23 May 2014

    Investors have been urged to broaden their understanding of carbon price risk and its impact on credit ratings, in a report by Standard & Poor's (S&P).

  • Major insurance players pledge to tackle climate change

    23 May 2014

    A group of 66 insurance firms has committed to a set of principles laid down in a bid to fight climate-related risks and "promote stability in the global economy".

  • Incentivising energy efficiency

    22 May 2014

    The UK's pioneering CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme aims to reduce energy consumption in some of the nation's largest organisations. Alan Page outlines its achievements to date and explains how it has recently been revised.

  • Water investments could reach $1trn by 2020, says BAML

    21 May 2014

    Rising demand for water could create investment opportunities amounting to $1 trillion by 2020, according to a leading equity analyst.

  • Connecticut green bank in $30m PACE securitisation

    20 May 2014

    Connecticut's green bank has announced the securitisation and sale of a $30 million portfolio of transactions financed under its commercial clean energy initiative.

  • S&P warns insurers about increasing frequency of extreme weather events

    19 May 2014

    Weather volatility is rising and further increases in the severity and number of extreme events could trigger ratings downgrades for insurance and reinsurance companies, ratings firm Standard & Poor's said.

  • KfW and Helaba finance Canadian onshore wind farms

    19 May 2014

    German wind farm developer wpd has announced the financial close of a public-private fundraising round to enable the construction of two new projects in Canada.

  • African renewables company gets KfW backing

    19 May 2014

    German development bank KfW has teamed up with a Swiss asset manager to launch a renewables company focusing on sub-Saharan Africa.

  • Climate change is a 'mega-trend' threatening sovereign ratings - S&P

    16 May 2014

    Climate change has joined 'ageing populations' as a global mega-trend that threatens to impact sovereign risk, according to rating agency Standard & Poor's.