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UK's low-carbon economy 'could grow to 13% of GDP'

The low-carbon economy could grow to account for as much as 13% of the UK's gross domestic product (GDP) in the next thirty years, up from 2% today, according to a letter from Aldersgate Group, representing some of the country's business leaders.

Asset owners and investors call for more Mexican green bonds

A group of 57 leading asset owners and fund managers in Mexico have called on the government to take action to develop the local green bond market.

Comment: Trump and Paris - who will have the last laugh?

As he announced that the US was to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord, President Donald Trump claimed that the rest of the world was laughing at the US for signing the agreement, and they won't be laughing any longer.

Trump plan to renegotiate Paris dismissed as 'smoke and mirrors'

President Trump's suggestion that the US wants to renegotiate the Paris Agreement, when he announced the country's withdrawal from it, has been dismissed as smoke and mirrors by one industry analyst.

With the US out of Paris, will environmental investments increasingly shift to China?

Abandoning the Paris Climate Accord will come back to haunt the US, and China will benefit, argues Karine Hirn

Trump exits Paris Agreement, investors pour scorn

President Donald Trump followed through on his threat to pull the US out of the Paris Climate Accord, despite howls of protest that the US would surrender its leadership on climate action.

US withdrawal from Paris Agreement 'an irrelevance', say investors

With President Trump widely expected to announce the US' withdrawal from the Paris Agreement today, investors are sceptical over its implications on global climate action with one branding it an 'irrelevance'.

Could Mission Innovation be next to fall under Trump's environmental axe?

QE policy could increase risk of stranded assets, researchers warn

Purchases of corporate bonds by the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of England, as part of their quantitative easing (QE) initiatives, could be adding to the risk of assets in the oil and gas sectors becoming 'stranded'.

EU carbon market weekly update - 30 May 2017

Carbon continued its move higher last week, closing at €5.19, for a 7% week-on-week gain. The majority of the gains came on Friday, as the auction hiatus left the market short on the week.