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  • California insurance chief urges insurers to divest from coal

    26 January 2016

    Asset class risks rapid decline in value

  • EF BRIEFS: Iberdrola, Munich Re, CoPower, Haringey Council Pension Fund, Swiss Re

    25 January 2016

    MEAG, the asset management arm of Munich Re, has bought a 27MW solar farm in the UK from BayWa r.e.

  • Axa predicts divestment argument to heat up in 2016

    22 January 2016

    More investors are likely to divest their holdings in fossil fuel companies as the movement "accelerates" in 2016, predicts Axa Investment Managers (IM).

  • FSB reveals big hitters behind new climate change task force

    22 January 2016

    The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has named the members of its new climate change working group.

  • Owning fossil fuel stocks makes 'little sense' due to stranded asset risk

    08 January 2016

    Owning fossil fuel stocks makes little sense at the moment due to stranded asset risk and the growth of renewables, according to a responsible investor pioneer.

  • Infographic: Stranded assets risk - at a glance

    04 January 2016

    Fossil fuel companies risk wasting up to $2.2 trillion in the next decade, on projects that could be rendered uneconomic by action to curb climate change and advances in clean technologies, says the Carbon Tracker Initiative

  • Quotes of the Quarter

    04 January 2016

    A round-up of the quotes of Q4 2015 that made headlines, including commments from Narendra Modi, Michael Bloomberg and Frederic Samama

  • Looking back at 2015, and looking ahead to 2016

    31 December 2015

    It has been a landmark year for environmental investment themes. Hamza Ali looks back at some of the key developments of 2015 and asks what the following year will bring

  • Brave new world

    24 December 2015

    What does the landmark Paris agreement mean for the financial community, asks Peter Cripps

  • Which utilities are set to be hit hardest by the Paris climate agreement?

    21 December 2015

    The utilities sector is set to bear the brunt of the Paris climate agreement, as it will require a wholesale shift away from thermal power generation, analysts at UBS have warned.