Archive

  • People moves

    22 May 2015

    Recent appointments in the environmental finance space, including Alexandra Ergon at Calvert, Nikolas Novograd at RET Capital and Mamadou-Abou Sarr at PRI

  • Green Climate Fund deemed 'effective' and ready to seek private investment

    22 May 2015

    The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has crossed its fundraising threshold and will begin financing projects and incentivising private-sector investment, it has said.

  • France's Hollande welcomes green bonds, decarbonisation initiatives

    20 May 2015

    French president Francois Hollande has hailed the importance of green bonds and portfolio decarbonisation initiatives in the run up to the UN climate change summit in December.

  • TerraForm Global raises $175m ahead of IPO

    20 May 2015

    TerraForm Global, the second 'yieldco' to be launched by US renewables giant SunEdison, has raised $175 million in equity financing ahead of its planned initial public offering (IPO).

  • Why the Paris climate summit will boost REDD+

    20 May 2015

    An agreement in Paris could build on the achievements of the Warsaw Pact for REDD+ Action, and could prove a game changer for forestry, argues Mariama Vendramini

  • Foresight Solar plans fresh fundraise as it eyes 100MW pipeline

    18 May 2015

    Foresight Solar Fund is planning another fundraising round next month as it revealed it has secured an exclusive agreement to buy 100MW of assets.

  • Shell and Statoil next to face climate votes at AGM

    15 May 2015

    Shell and Statoil will become the latest fossil fuel companies to address mounting shareholder concerns about climate change when they hold their annual general meetings (AGMs) next week.

  • Joule gains $40m to commercialise CO2-to-fuel technologies

    14 May 2015

    Joule Unlimited, a leader in waste-to-fuel biotechnologies, has secured $40m in private equity and venture debt financing to scale-up its operational facilities in Hobbs, New Mexico, and spur commercialization of its SolarConverter® system to produce ethanol and diesel fuels.

  • Eurosif proposes sustainability as 6th pillar of EU Capital Markets Union

    13 May 2015

    Sustainability should be added to the proposed principals behind the EU's Capital Markets Union (CMU) initiative.

  • Amundi launches three index-linked low-carbon funds

    12 May 2015

    Amundi has created three funds to track a low-carbon index from MSCI.