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  • People Moves: BlackRock, Macquarie Infrastructure Debt Investment Solutions, AP4, ING, Lightsource BP, European Investment Bank, IIGCC, DNCA Finance and FRC

    29 June 2018

    BlackRock has lost one of the leaders of its push into impact investing, Environmental Finance has learned.

  • People moves: Nordic Investment Bank, Macquarie Capital, Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets, GWEC and EIB

    22 June 2018

  • Green bond round-up, 20 June, 2018

    20 June 2018

    ESG investors flock to Australian SDG bond National Australia Bank (NAB) has issued its first 'green SDG bond' which it said aligns with the Green Bond Principles while also contributing to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

  • LGIM launches Future World fund for DC schemes

    19 June 2018

    A multi-asset fund for defined contribution (DC) schemes that 'tilts' toward top-performing companies based on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors has been added to the award-winning Future World family of funds.

  • Macquarie completes £500m Green Loan Principle-aligned issue

    13 June 2018

    Macquarie has become the first financial institution to issue in line with regional Green Loan Principles (GLPs), it claimed, following its issue of £500 million ($666 million) in green notes.

  • Tessa Tennant awarded OBE for sustainability work

    03 January 2018

    Tessa Tennant, co-founder of the Jupiter Ecology fund, has been awarded an OBE for services to sustainable investment in the Queen's New Year Honours List.

  • GIG sets sights on waste-to-energy with Covanta partnership

    18 December 2017

    Green Investment Group (GIG) has made its second move into the waste-to-energy sector by teaming up with Covanta Holding Corporation to finance new UK and Ireland waste infrastructure projects.

  • Macquarie negotiating debt deal in world's largest biomass plant

    01 December 2017

    Macquarie Group is understood to be in discussions with a consortium of Korean investors to introduce mezzanine debt to the construction of the world's largest biomass power plant.

  • UK joins the push for green standards

    03 November 2017

    The UK's climate change minister has hinted that the UK may consider issuing a green bond - once standard definitions of sustainable and green finance have been drawn up.

  • Green Bank Network contributes $29bn to clean energy projects

    20 September 2017

    Commitments worth $29 billion have been made since 2015 to fund clean energy projects by a group of six green banks.