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  • Green Climate Fund criticised by NGOs for accrediting Deutsche Bank

    09 July 2015

    Several NGOs have penned an open letter to the Green Climate Fund (GCF), warning that its decision to appoint Deutsche Bank to handle its funds threatened its credibility on environmental grounds.

  • Under scrutiny: green bond impact reporting

    01 July 2015

    Issuers' reports on the environmental impact of their green bonds range from a few paragraphs on hard-to-find webpages to 80-page documents. But, given the costs and assumptions involved, some question whether more is necessarily better. Graham Cooper reports

  • Green Bond Principles 'must tighten up on transparency'

    01 May 2015

    The Green Bond Principles should be strengthened in order to fill a "transparency gap" that is emerging in the market, according to an alliance of NGOs.

  • Letters from Lima

    The UN climate conference in Lima was billed as a key event in the build-up to a global agreement in Paris in 2015. This series of articles looks at some of the major topics covered.

  • World's NGOs warn UN of 'greenwash' in green bonds market

    23 September 2014

    More than 100 organisations have joined forces to urge the UN to ensure "the green bond market is truly green" when looking at global counter-climate change investment.

  • Call to strengthen Green Bond Principles

    10 April 2014

    The Green Bond Principles should be strengthened to help boost the credibility of the fledgling market, an NGO has claimed.

  • COP Blog: WTF – Where's The Finance?

    21 November 2013

    The annual UN climate talks – known as the Conference of Parties, or COP – had been billed, all too optimistically, as a 'Finance COP'.

  • UK opens wheat-fuelled biorefinery, ahead of EU vote

    10 July 2013

    The UK's largest biorefinery, officially opened on Tuesday, will produce 420 million litres of bioethanol – a third of the country's current need – when operating at full capacity, the owners said.

  • Non-toxic investments

    19 June 2013

    Investors need to raise more questions about the financial risks arising from hazardous chemicals produced and used by a range of companies, says Sonja Haider