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  • Climate Endowment to launch €500m forestry fund

    14 October 2020

    The Climate Endowment Group is gearing up to launch a forestry impact fund with an initial target size of about €500 million ($590 million), Environmental Finance can reveal.

  • 'Climate endowment' launches €500m hydropower fund

    07 October 2020

    A 'climate endowment' looking to replicate the alternative investment strategies of Harvard and Yale universities has launched a hydropower impact fund targeting €500 million ($588 million) in investments.

  • Big data 'can help assess country ESG risk, and its implications for companies'

    14 August 2020

    Big data can help investors better understand countries' environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks, and the challenges these present to the companies operating within them, said MSCI.

  • Scottish Widows invests £2bn in BlackRock climate transition fund

    05 August 2020

    Asset management giant BlackRock has launched a Climate Transition World Equity Fund with a £2 billion ($2.6 billion) investment from British pensions and insurance provider Scottish Widows, a subsidiary of Lloyds Bank.

  • Use our Taxonomy as a framework for economic recovery, urges EU's TEG

    27 April 2020

    Policy makers and the private sector have been urged to use the tools developed as part of the EU's sustainable finance action plan to guide the rebuilding of economy following the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis.

  • S&P Dow Jones launches Paris-aligned index family

    21 April 2020

    S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) has launched a family of climate-focused European indexes which are consistent with the specifications of the EU technical expert group on sustainable finance (TEG) report.

  • Lloyds targets halving emissions from loan book by 2030

    22 January 2020

  • FTSE Russell to launch climate government bond index

    28 June 2019

    FTSE Russell will next month launch what it believes to be the first sovereign bond index to specifically integrate climate risk considerations, in what is set to be its first venture since buying data and analysis firm Beyond Ratings.

  • €40bn planned climate endowment to invest in 'green industrial revolution'

    10 June 2019

    A planned "climate endowment" fund hopes to raise between €20 billion ($22.6 billion) and €40 billion to enable institutional investors to invest in "the champions of the green industrial revolution".

  • Reaping an Earth Dividend

    30 May 2019

    Earth Capital Partners has been tracking down investments that have a positive impact on the planet for more than a decade. Its CIO Gordon Power talks to Elena K. Johansson