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  • Australian companies lag MSCI World for SDG impact

    14 February 2017

    Australian companies have less of a positive impact than the rest of the MSCI World Index when it comes to meeting the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

  • EU carbon market weekly update - 13 February 2017

    13 February 2017

    Week-on-week we saw a continuation of the sideways trading last week as EUA prices ended the week unchanged at €5.16.

  • China to launch pilot RECs market

    07 February 2017

    China will launch a pilot national renewable energy certificates (RECs) scheme on 1 July 2017, according to the country's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), in a bid to reduce its subsidies to the sector.

  • EU carbon market weekly update - 6 February 2017

    06 February 2017

    EUA prices gained 25 cents last week as supportive energy prices and one less auction led the market higher.

  • Renewables fund secures investment from Australia's green bank

    06 February 2017

    A fund that aims to help attract institutional investment in Australian renewable energy has secured a "cornerstone" equity investment from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) – the country's green bank.

  • RINs market suffers as EPA delays new regulations

    02 February 2017

    The price of Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) has dropped to a one-year low after the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it would delay the implementation of regulations finalised at the end of the Obama administration.

  • KfW identifies energy efficiency as a major financing theme

    01 February 2017

    German development bank KfW financed some €20.7 billion ($22.3 billion) of energy efficiency projects last year, out of total commitments of €81 billion.

  • EU carbon market weekly update - 30 January 2017

    30 January 2017

    Compliance buying ahead of the April deadline is unlikley to be enough to support EU Allowance prices if warmer weather returns, says Louis Redshaw.

  • Financiers praise 'Positive Impact' Principles

    30 January 2017

    The Principles for Positive Impact Finance were hailed as "an important step in ... overcoming the funding gap for sustainable development" at their launch today in Paris.

  • Irish parliament votes to divest from fossil fuels

    27 January 2017

    Ireland took a step closer to becoming the first country to divest its sovereign wealth from the fossil fuel industry.