Archive

  • 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.

  • Singapore's financial regulator launches green bond initiative

    27 March 2017

    Singapore has launched a green bond grant programme to help issuers pay the additional costs associated with obtaining an external review, in a bid to kickstart issuance from the state.

  • People Moves; Railpen, RCG, Convention on Biological Diversity

    24 March 2017

    RPMI Railpen has appointed Leo George as the new head of sustainable ownership, replacing Deborah Gilshan who has left the UK railway pension scheme to join Standard Life Investments' as a governance and stewardship director in the environmental, social and governance (ESG) team.

  • Green bonds round up, 22 March 2017

    22 March 2017

    French rail operator SNCF Reseau is gearing up to issue its second green bond.

  • First green hybrid debt set to issue

    21 March 2017

    A major European green bond issuer is gearing up to issue the first green-labelled hybrid security.

  • Scottish hydro firm raises £51m of debt

    20 March 2017

    Ancala Partners, a London-based infrastructure investment manager, has agreed a £51 million ($64 million) debt facility with Allied Irish Bank and ING to support a portfolio of hydropower assets in Scotland.

  • TCFD: A full disclosure

    20 March 2017

    Will the Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) report change the landscape for investors, asks Hamza Ali

  • Chinese green bond indexes launched

    20 March 2017

    A series of indexes tracking both labelled and unlabelled Chinese green bonds has been launched, and will be listed on the Shenzhen and Luxembourg stock exchanges.

  • Pension funds back Scandinavian infrastructure fund with DKK8.8bn

    16 March 2017

    Danish fund manager Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has launched a new energy infrastructure fund targeting renewables, with initial commitments of DKK8.8 billion ($1.3 billion).

  • Engie issues second green bond

    15 March 2017

    French utility Engie has issued a two tranche €1.5 billion ($1.6 billion) green bond.