Archive

  • Winners revealed in Environmental Finance's Bond Awards 2020

    30 March 2020

    Environmental Finance's Bond Awards were expanded again this year to reflect the growth and evolution of the green, social and sustainability (GSS) bond markets and to include the nascent GSS loan market.

  • Stimulus packages could give 'green lining' to coronavirus cloud

    23 March 2020

    Governments have an opportunity to use their significant fiscal responses to the coronavirus pandemic to help rather than hinder long-term progress on climate action. Ahren Lester explains.

  • People Moves, 6 March: DG FISMA, ResponsAbility, Carbon4 Finance

    06 March 2020

  • Major shareholder Jupiter supports Barclays fossil fuel funding resolution

    03 March 2020

    Jupiter Asset Management has joined the swelling ranks of investors supporting a shareholder resolution calling on Barclays to phase out its funding for fossil fuel firms.

  • Malaysian banks fund coal power projects at expense of renewables

    21 February 2020

    Malaysian banks continue to provide significant funding to coal power projects amid a rising number of international peers stepping back from such financing, according to a report by an Australian environmental pressure group.

  • Greencoat Capital launches renewables fund with £280m investment

    19 February 2020

    Greencoat Capital launched a UK renewables infrastructure fund, securing an initial £277 million ($186 million) in commitments from two UK pension funds.

  • RBS targets halving emissions from financing activity by 2030

    14 February 2020

    The UK's Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) pledged to halve the climate activity of its financing activity by 2030 - although it admitted that it does not know how it will achieve the goal.

  • Amundi supports Barclays fossil fuel funding shareholder resolution

    13 February 2020

    Major French asset manager Amundi has confirmed it will support a resolution calling on Barclays to phase out its funding for fossil fuel firms.

  • HSBC named largest green, social and sustainability bond manager

    10 February 2020

    HSBC became the largest green, social and sustainability (GSS) bond market underwriter in 2019, in a year marked by rapidly accelerating diversification of the market.

  • Bonds round-up: Chile, LBBW, Orix, Egypt

    29 January 2020