Archive

  • Platina completes second renewables fund exit

    04 November 2013

    Investment firm Platina Partners has today exited its second renewables fund in the past half-year.

  • People moves

    04 November 2013

    The latest people moves in the environmental markets, covering companies including the World Bank, Aberdeen Asset Management, Principles for Responsible Investment, Sindicatum, E.On, PwC and more

  • Call for coalition to drive green bond market growth

    01 November 2013

    Citi and Bank of America Merrill Lynch have attempted to accelerate the growth of the fledgling green bond market by calling for a collaboration of investors, issuers and dealers to drive its development.

  • Impact investments can match traditional asset returns, studies claim

    31 October 2013

    Two studies of impact investments claim to show that investors would sacrifice little, if any, financial return by selecting their assets on environmental and social as well as economic grounds.

  • Solar leasing model rolled out to energy storage sector

    29 October 2013

    A pioneering energy storage company is to allow customers to install its technology for no upfront cost, as it adopts a leasing finance model similar to those used by rapidly expanding solar companies.

  • Rio+20 prompts rethink of management education

    29 October 2013

    A new initiative will help business schools address sustainable development in their management programmes, explains John North.

  • Call to financiers to fund emerging markets renewables revolution

    28 October 2013

    Financiers need to help the renewables industry shift its focus from the "dying" Western subsidies market and embrace the "phenomenal revolution" in emerging markets, a conference heard.

  • NGOs claim victory as Arctic drilling platform plans scrapped

    25 October 2013

    Plans to build two Arctic oil drilling platforms have been scrapped after environmentalists warned the project's financiers that the activities would jeopardise the future of one of the most endangered whale species.

  • Investors and businesses lobby for early EU ETS reform

    25 October 2013

    A group of 53 businesses, investors and trade associations has called on the European Commission to bring forward, to the end of this year, draft legislation to reform the beleaguered EU Emissions Trading System (ETS).

  • $3trn investor coalition heaps 'stranded asset' pressure on fossil fuel firms

    24 October 2013

    A coalition of investors worth $3 trillion has joined forces to write to 45 of the biggest oil and gas companies demanding how they are dealing with the threat of 'stranded assets'.