Archive

  • MSCI gains new ESG research head

    05 June 2015

    Sustainability expert Antti Savilaakso has joined MSCI as European head of environmental, social and governance (ESG) research.

  • ABN Amro issues €500m green bond for real estate

    03 June 2015

    ABN Amro has "set a new standard for the market" with its €500 million ($557 million) green bond.

  • ABN Amro to roadshow Euro green bond

    21 May 2015

    Dutch bank ABN Amro is making moves to enter the green bond market.

  • Santander stops funding APRIL after Greenpeace deforestation campaign

    02 March 2015

    Santander has bowed to pressure to withdraw finance from the paper company Asia Pacific Resources International (April) after Greenpeace launched a campaign criticising it for logging Indonesian forests.

  • Optimism prompts new spot exchange for EU ETS

    11 February 2015

    The EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) has seen a new spot exchange launched, in a growing sign of the market's recovery.

  • 'World's largest' offshore wind project finance deal agreed

    15 May 2014

    A €2.8 billion ($3.8 billion) project financing agreement has been secured for an offshore wind farm, in a deal that claims to be the largest of its kind.

  • Nine out of 10 banks fail ESG stress tests

    10 April 2014

    The vast majority of international banks failed to meet social and environmental 'stress tests', an analysis firm has revealed.

  • Energy efficient ships an 'attractive investment opportunity', says bank

    27 June 2013

    Investors are increasingly seeing retrofitting ships with fuel-saving technologies as an attractive opportunity, according to a bank, which is developing a finance mechanism for the activity.