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  • Shipping sector lacks investments in transformative technologies to stem climate risks

    25 June 2019

    Most major shipping companies have failed to deploy transformative and innovative technologies to protect themselves against climate-related risks, according to a CDP study.

  • Financial firms should press for deeper cuts in ship emissions, says ShareAction

    17 May 2019

    Investors and banks should press the shipping industry to aim for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, according to the campaigning UK charity ShareAction.

  • ERM snaps up SustainAbility as industry consolidation continues

    14 January 2019

    Environmental Resources Management (ERM), a specialist consultancy with 160 offices worldwide, has acquired SustainAbility, the pioneering think tank and advisory firm set up by John Elkington and Julia Hailes in 1987.

  • GIG claims success as it spreads its wings

    15 August 2018

    The Green Investment Group has had a successful first year in the private sector, with significant expansion overseas, Ed Northam tells Peter Cripps.

  • Green Investment Group closes €270m Swedish wind project

    20 July 2018

    Macquarie's Green Investment Group (GIG) has reached a €270 million ($310 million) financial close on an onshore wind project backed by one of the longest corporate wind power purchase agreements (PPAs) in existence.

  • New report aims to help companies disclose physical climate risks

    01 June 2018

    The disclosure of physical climate risks has received less attention than reporting transition climate risks, it was claimed at the launch of a report that aims to help redress the balance.

  • Norway's wealth fund puts shipping and power under scrutiny

    12 March 2018

    The world's largest sovereign wealth fund is expected to expand its emissions exclusion criteria to cover more sectors.

  • Australian banks shine in RobecoSAM ratings

    24 January 2017

    Just six financial institutions have been awarded 'gold stars' in RobecoSAM's 2017 Sustainability Yearbook, and three of them were Australian banks.

  • Aquila, APG boost investments in European hydro projects

    19 January 2015

    Aquila Capital has added to the portfolio of European hydropower assets it is building with APG Asset Management of the Netherlands by acquiring Norsk Gronnkraft, an operator of 33 small facilities in Norway. No financial details of the transaction were disclosed.

  • 'Responsibility reporting is now mainstream, but still not linked to performance'

    09 December 2013

    The majority of big companies produce Corporate Responsibility (CR) reports but only 5% are linked to financial performance, leaving them open to accusations that they are merely 'greenwash', an event to mark the launch of a new study heard.