Archive

  • MTA to return to market with $500m green bond

    11 May 2016

    New York's Metropolitan Transport Authority (MTA) is gearing up to launch a $500 million green bond – its second in as many months.

  • Investors representing $6trn back climate change resolution at ExxonMobil

    13 April 2016

    Investors representing $6 trillion of assets under management (AUM) have thrown their weight behind a shareholder resolution demanding that ExxonMobil disclose the impact of climate change policy on its business.

  • The world's first debt swap to protect oceans is 'model for conservation'

    15 March 2016

    Africa's Seychelles has undertaken the "first ever debt swap aimed at ocean conservation and climate mitigation".

  • ESG disclosure requirements need less of a 'blanket approach', says Deloitte

    14 March 2016

    Sustainability indicators for listed companies need to be more tailored, to enable firms to report more clearly on material risks, according to a specialist at Deloitte.

  • EF BRIEFS: Triodos Bank, SolarCity, Ontario cap-and-trade

    26 February 2016

    Dutch ethical bank Triodos has grown its assets under management (AUM) by 16% in 2015, to €12.3 billion ($13.5 billion).

  • Province of Ontario prices second green bond

    26 January 2016

    The Canadian province of Ontario has priced a C$750 million ($523 million) green bond.

  • RWE's Dawson elected as IETA chairman

    07 December 2015

    The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) has elected Paul Dawson, head of regulatory affairs at RWE Supply and Trading, as chairman of the board.

  • Environmental pioneer Maurice Strong dies

    01 December 2015

    Maurice Strong, whose pioneering work at the UN in the 1970s paved the way for this week's landmark climate change summit in Paris, has died at the age of 86.

  • Ontario set to issue second green bond

    30 November 2015

    The Canadian province of Ontario is to issue its second Canadian dollar-denominated green bond by March 2016, according to the province's financing authority.

  • Multi-national corporates call for UN talks to facilitate carbon markets

    19 October 2015

    A group of 14 leading industrial companies have called on negotiators at the UN climate change talks in Paris in December to deliver an agreement that facilitates international carbon markets.