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Tesla is top CO₂ performer but lags in disclosure, TPI says
14 February 2018Electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla is the best performer in the automobile sector in terms of carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions, but is let down by its disclosure on the issue, a report has found.
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Electric vehicles could hit price parity with diesel and petrol from 2022, CDP says
19 January 2018Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) will reach price parity with internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles from about 2022, according to research published by CDP.
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Green bond comment, November 2017
01 November 2017It was great to have something positive to announce about the US green bond market at this year's Green Bonds Americas conference!
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Impax fund outperforms benchmark by 2% despite missing out on Tesla boom
03 August 2017Environmental-themed asset manager Impax's flagship investment trust has outperformed its benchmark by 2.6 percentage points in the first six months of the year.
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US businesses with $1.4trn in revenue commit to Paris
07 June 2017More than 900 US businesses and investors representing $1.4 trillion in annual revenue, along with 125 cities, 9 states and 183 educational institutions have signed a letter, committing to remain faithful to the Paris Climate Agreement.
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Comment: Trump and Paris - who will have the last laugh?
02 June 2017As he announced that the US was to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord, President Donald Trump claimed that the rest of the world was laughing at the US for signing the agreement, and they won't be laughing any longer.
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PGGM commits €200m to rooftop solar
04 May 2017Dutch investment manager PGGM has increased its commitment to clean energy by taking a €200 million ($218 million) stake in a portfolio of 38,000 rooftop solar systems in the US.
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Fall in clean energy investment due, in part, to better technology - BNEF
13 April 2017Clean energy investments continued to fall in the first quarter of 2017, partly driven by their falling capital costs as the technology gets better according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).
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How to eliminate child labour from the battery business
29 March 2017A multi-stakeholder collaboration is needed to stamp out the use of child labour in the mining of cobalt for lithium-ion batteries, says Benedikt Sobotka.
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Asset manager devises Sustainable Development Goals tagging system
22 March 2017An asset manager has developed a system to tag equities according to whether they help meet the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).