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  • Two Grosvenor funds ditch fossil fuels

    02 February 2015

    Two socially responsible investment (SRI) funds run by New Zealand state-owned Grosvenor Financial Services Group have divested from fossil fuels.

  • Green bond pioneer reflects on record-breaking year

    16 January 2015

    SEB held on to its position as top green bond underwriter in 2014. Christopher Flensborg tells Peter Cripps how he plans to remain a "thought leader" in the emerging market

  • Analysts predict further strong gains for EU carbon prices in 2015

    18 December 2014

    Carbon market analysts expect the price of EU allowances (EUAs) to rise by a further 40% in 2015 after a rise of more than 30% this year, despite some bearish fundamental factors.

  • The only way is up

    11 December 2014

    This year's winners in the carbon markets section of our annual rankings believe the tide has finally turned after the economic downturn in 2008 sent prices and volumes tumbling. Graham Cooper and Sophie Robinson-Tillett report

  • The results are in: Annual Market Rankings winners announced

    10 December 2014

    Top brokers, dealers and service providers have been named in Environmental Finance's 15th Annual Market Rankings.

  • ICE reports rise in open interest on EUA contracts

    03 December 2014

    Volumes of carbon traded on ICE Futures Europe are slightly down in the year-to-date, but the exchange pointed to growth in 'open interest' contracts as a sign of the market's health.

  • Jupiter excited by prospects for environmental stocks

    19 November 2014

    The manager of Jupiter's Ecology fund said the future of sustainability-themed stocks remains bright, despite his fund's recent underperformance against its benchmark.

  • Trucost to enter green bond market

    30 October 2014

    Environmental data firm Trucost is set to join the growing throng of verifiers servicing the rapidly expanding green bond market.

  • Investors should move on stranded asset risk 'sooner rather than later', warns bank

    28 October 2014

    Investors with a focus on sustainability should begin to take action to mitigate the threat of 'stranded fossil fuel assets' sooner rather than later, a bank research note has advised.

  • Alterra Power secures C$176.5m loan to complete Jimmie Creek financing

    16 October 2014

    Alterra Power and a fund managed by Fiera Axium Infrastructure have agreed a C$176.5 million ($156 million) non-recourse loan facility for the 62MW Jimmie Creek hydroelectric project in British Columbia.