Archive

  • News round-up: TCFD, John Kerry, Legal and General, Church of England, and more

    24 March 2021

  • RAN fossil fuel investigation shows massive continued financing from banks

    24 March 2021

  • Global banks supply $800m a day to plastics supply chain

    07 January 2021

    The amount of money that banks have pumped into the global plastics supply chain has been tracked in a new report

  • Banks under fire for funding that threatens biodiversity

    28 October 2020

    The world's largest banks have been named and shamed for continuing to fund activities that threaten the biodiversity of the planet.

  • Bank of America becomes third US lender to join carbon accounting initiative

    30 July 2020

    Bank of America (BoA) has joined the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF), the third major US lender to join the initiative in the past week, as pressure builds on financial institutions to tackle the emissions of their lending and investment portfolios.

  • Rocky Mountain Institute launches climate finance centre with US banks

    09 July 2020

    The Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) has launched a research centre to help shape the role that the financial industry has in driving the transition to a low-carbon economy, with four major US banks collaborating on the project

  • Ford Foundation to issue $1bn in social bonds in response to Covid-19

    11 June 2020

    The Ford Foundation is set to issue bonds worth $1 billion with a 'social' label, in a departure from the organisation's usual avenues of fundraising, according to a report by The New York Times.

  • Deutsche Bank sets 'ambitious' sustainability targets

    15 May 2020

    Deutsche Bank outlined targets which will see the German lender boost sustainability assets to over €200 billion ($217 billion) by 2025 and issue its first green bond.

  • US Solar Fund acquires 128MW project

    02 September 2019

    Renewables asset owner US Solar Fund (USF) has acquired a 128MW solar farm in Utah, US, from solar developer Longroad, investing $30 million for 100% of the equity of the Milford Solar Project.

  • Bonds round-up: Scotiabank, Berlin Hyp, San Diego, Bogota, Greenko

    17 July 2019

    Scotiabank issues inaugural green bond, Berlin Hyp returns with fourth Green Pfandbrief and more