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  • UK social impact investment market passes £5bn

    28 October 2020

    The UK's market for social impact investments jumped a fifth in 2019 to about £5.1 billion ($6.7 billion) in total, according to research by Big Society Capital.

  • Principles for financing green home retrofitting launched

    29 September 2020

    The UK's Green Finance Institute (GFI) has launched the Green Home Retrofit Finance Principles (GHRFPs), backed by institutions including Lloyds Bank and NatWest, which until recently was known as RBS.

  • Scottish Widows invests £2bn in BlackRock climate transition fund

    05 August 2020

    Asset management giant BlackRock has launched a Climate Transition World Equity Fund with a £2 billion ($2.6 billion) investment from British pensions and insurance provider Scottish Widows, a subsidiary of Lloyds Bank.

  • Majority of Europe's largest companies still 'failing' in climate reporting

    19 May 2020

    In 2019, more than three quarters of Europe's largest companies were not adequately reporting climate and environmental risks, according to the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB).

  • HSBC closes coal project funding loophole as pressure mounts

    01 May 2020

    HSBC has closed a controversial loophole which allowed the bank to continue to fund coal projects in three countries, but campaigners continued to push for coal funding to be withdrawn altogether.

  • Barclays tightens climate policy amid shareholder pressure

    30 March 2020

    Barclays has announced an ambition to be net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 across its lending activities, but campaigners are pushing for commitments to faster progress.

  • Major shareholder Jupiter supports Barclays fossil fuel funding resolution

    03 March 2020

    Jupiter Asset Management has joined the swelling ranks of investors supporting a shareholder resolution calling on Barclays to phase out its funding for fossil fuel firms.

  • Lloyds excludes Arctic oil and gas exploration

    24 February 2020

    Lloyds Banking Group has pledged to not support oil and gas exploration in the Arctic and Antarctic territories.

  • Malaysian banks fund coal power projects at expense of renewables

    21 February 2020

    Malaysian banks continue to provide significant funding to coal power projects amid a rising number of international peers stepping back from such financing, according to a report by an Australian environmental pressure group.

  • People Moves 14 February: LGIM; Leapfrog; AllianceBernstein; Lloyds; Green Giraffe; and more

    14 February 2020