Archive

  • Leading retailers and RBC act on supply chain emissions

    26 June 2018

    Three of the world's 20 leading retailers – CVS Health, Target Corporation and Tesco – have joined Walmart in requesting information on their suppliers' carbon emissions as part of an initiative to improve supply chain sustainability.

  • Green Climate Fund commits extra $1bn to developing nations

    05 March 2018

    The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is to provide an additional $1.09 billion for climate mitigation and adaptation projects as it says it is ready to "shift gear" in helping developing countries hit climate goals.

  • UBS creates "new framework for sustainable investing"

    05 February 2018

    UBS Asset Management (AM) has teamed up with academics to develop a "new calculus for sustainable investing".

  • US food companies must do more to prevent 'antibiotics apocalypse'

    01 December 2017

    Investors are beginning to wake up to the dangers posed by antibiotic immunity, argues Maria Lettini

  • Shareholder engagement spurs AB InBev to commit to 100% renewables

    29 March 2017

    Anheuser-Busch (AB) InBev, the world's largest brewer, has signed up to the RE100 initiative, following extensive shareholder engagement.

  • EF BRIEFS: Vermont green bond, SASB, TerraForm Global

    20 July 2016

    Vermont Educational and Health Buildings Financing Agency has priced its second green bond.

  • Vermont set to issue $89m green bond

    28 June 2016

    Vermont Educational and Health Buildings Financing Agency (VEHBFA) is set to issue an $89 million green bond, its first with a second opinion.

  • Saint Michael's College issues $20m green bond

    27 October 2015

    Saint Michael's College in Vermont has become sixth US university to tap the green bond market this year, with its inaugural $20 million issue.

  • Profile: Peter Michaelis, Alliance Trust

    14 September 2015

    Alliance Trust put its faith in environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics when it promoted Peter Michaelis to take charge of its equities investments, in September 2014.

  • The best performing funds of 2014: Ecofi Enjeux Futurs

    03 February 2015

    Finding firms that help address challenges caused by environmental pressures and the growing global population helped produce benchmark-beating results. Fund manager Olivier Plaisant talks to Peter Cripps