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  • Exclusive: UK government launches working group on pulling out of EU ETS

    24 March 2017

    The UK government has launched a working group on forming a national carbon market, in a signal that the country is preparing to leave the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) as a result of Brexit, Environmental Finance can reveal.

  • COP Blog: The Green Climate Fund's key role is to mobilise the private sector

    14 November 2016

    CMIA
    After the commitments and headlines of Paris a year ago, COP22 in Marrakesh has to be all about implementation. Faster than anyone expected, the Paris Agreement has already been ratified, but progress on the ground needs to ramp up.

  • IETA and CMIA press for airlines to use project-level REDD+ credits

    10 November 2016

    Two leading trade associations have come together to lobby for carbon credits from small-scale forest protection projects to be used in the forthcoming international carbon market for airlines – the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (Corsia).

  • The road to Marrakesh is paved with green intentions

    26 September 2016

    The Paris climate change summit will be a tough act to follow, but its successor is shaping up to be an important meeting in its own right. Hamza Ali and Peter Cripps report

  • Canada edges towards more carbon pricing

    07 March 2016

    Further steps to put a price on carbon emissions across Canada are likely following a meeting of the leaders of the country's 13 provinces and territories.

  • Carbon pricing revenues seen jumping 50% from 2014, says CMIA

    28 October 2015

    Global revenues from carbon pricing schemes are expected to soar by around 50% this year, according to data from the Climate Markets & Investment Association (CMIA).

  • AGF mutual fund becomes first in Canada to disclose environmental footprint

    25 September 2015

    Asset manager AGF Investments claims it will become the first firm in Canada to disclose the environmental footprint of a mutual fund.

  • Gareth Phillips joins African Development Bank

    04 August 2015

    Gareth Phillips has joined the African Development Bank in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, as chief climate and green growth officer.

  • People moves

    22 May 2015

    Recent appointments in the environmental finance space, including Alexandra Ergon at Calvert, Nikolas Novograd at RET Capital and Mamadou-Abou Sarr at PRI

  • People moves

    18 March 2015

    A round-up of the latest new appointments and moves in the industry, including changes at BlackRock, SolarCity and SunEdison