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  • 27 CEOs back TCFD recommendations

    21 April 2017

    27 CEOs from major corporations have committed to implement the draft recommendations laid out by the Financial Stability Board's Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).

  • Introducing the Principles for Positive Impact Finance

    19 April 2017

    The Principles have been designed to help meet the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals. But how will they be implemented? Peter Cripps reports

  • Investors start to weigh water risks

    18 April 2017

    Investor interest in corporate water risk is increasing fast. A range of tools and services are being developed to help companies respond. Graham Cooper reports

  • Green bonds round up, 22 March 2017

    22 March 2017

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

  • MEPs support for EU ETS could treble carbon price

    15 February 2017

    Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have agreed to strengthen the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) in a move which one analyst said has the potential to triple allowance price forecasts for 2020.

  • First-of-its kind Sustainable Ocean Fund hits the market

    06 February 2017

    A first-of-its-kind fund that aims to scale up sustainable fishing and other marine protection activities while making a commercial return for investors has begun marketing.

  • Private equity firm secures €100m loan to refinance solar portfolio

    23 January 2017

    A Private equity firm has signed a "roughly" €100 million ($107 million) loan deal to refinance a 20MW Spanish solar portfolio.

  • 50 shades of green bonds - and 50 ways of assessing them

    29 December 2016

    Ratings agencies have weighed into the green bond market in the past year, adding to the raft of existing tools for assessing bonds. Where is this increasingly crowded marketplace heading, asks Peter Cripps

  • TCFD's four major disclosure recommendations revealed

    09 December 2016

    Details of the four major disclosure recommendations from Financial Stability Board's (FSB) Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) have emerged ahead of the report's launch next week.

  • GFI's six proposals to make UK an international green financial hub

    14 November 2016

    The City of London's Green Finance Initiative (GFI) has launched a report outlining six key priority areas, to help maintain the UK's role as "the go-to place to connect capital with green" amid growing competition from other financial centres.