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AP3 more than doubles green bond investments in 2016
28 February 2017Sweden's third national pension fund, AP3, has more than doubled its green bond investments in 2016, from SEK4.5 billion ($500 million) to SEK9.5 billion.
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MSCI, Citigroup and UNEP FI speakers confirmed for water conference
24 February 2017Representatives from the London Stock Exchange, MSCI, Citigroup, Amundi, Environmental Agency Pension Fund, UNEP FI, SABMiller and the University of Oxford have joined the list of speakers confirmed to appear at Environmental Finance's Water: Risk, Opportunity and Sustainability conference in London.
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Sandor reflects on development of environmental markets
22 February 2017Richard Sandor, a pioneer of environmental markets, has published a collection of articles recounting the development of carbon trading in the US, Europe and China and similar markets for combatting acid rain and improving water quality.
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Flood Re reveals contrasts in UK insurers' flood modelling
13 February 2017Britain's flood reinsurance programme has exposed insurers' ability to model and manage flood risk, as Flood Re's chief actuary Gary McInally discusses with Christopher Cundy
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Conservation finance 'sees $8.2bn of private capital'
12 January 2017The private sector has committed $8.2 billion of capital into conservation investments between 2004 and 2015, a report has found, with "dramatic growth" coming in the last two years.
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Water fund manager eyes second fundraise
05 January 2017A US-based wastewater treatment company has revealed that it is considering raising a second fund, just weeks after it announced the first investment from its inaugural investment vehicle.
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Water risk 'not currently priced into investment analysis'
22 December 2016Investors are not currently pricing in water risk into their analysis, even though it is "a powder keg" and a potential catalyst for sudden change, according to one investment bank.
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First muni green bond since US election
23 November 2016The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is set to issue its third green bond, representing the first issuance by a US municipality since the Presidential elections on 8 November.
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Companies take $14bn hit from water problems in 2016, CDP finds
18 November 2016The value of water-related financial impacts borne by companies soared to $14 billion last year, up from $2.6 billion the previous year.
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Green bond proposed for flood prevention in UK
16 November 2016Green bonds could be an efficient, cost effective, way to fund flood protection measures in the UK county of Cumbria, advocates say.