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Barclays launches ‘green trade loan’ product
04 May 2018Barclays has launched a green trade loan product, designed to help meet clients’ working capital needs when pursuing sustainable trading activities.
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ISS-Oekom to extend coverage of forward-looking impact assessment tool
04 May 2018ISS-Oekom will extend the scope of a ‘forward-looking’ tool it uses to evaluate the impact of companies’ contributions to environmental, social and governance (ESG) objectives.
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Rio Tinto shareholders in largest ever vote for climate resolution
03 May 2018Investors with a combined $4 billion of shares in Rio Tinto have recorded the largest vote for a climate change-related resolution, without board support, in Australian corporate history.
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Luxembourg Green Exchange extended to SRI funds
03 May 2018Luxembourg Stock Exchange has opened up its ‘green exchange’ to socially responsible investment (SRI) funds.
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Green bond comment, May: It's all about impact!
02 May 2018Is the green bond market evolving into the impact bond market?
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Green bonds round-up, 2 May
02 May 2018DTE Electric, an electricity utility based in Detroit, Michigan, has entered the green bond market with a $525 million, 30-year issue. It pays a coupon of 4.05% and was priced at 97 basis points over US Treasuries, giving a yield to maturity of 4.076%. The issue has been rated Aa3, A and A+ by Moody's, S&P Global and Fitch, respectively.
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Ontario government backs latest Emerald cleantech fund
02 May 2018The Ontario Capital Growth Corporation (OCGC) has committed CAD35 million ($27 million) to the latest cleantech fund from Zurich-based Emerald Technology Ventures.
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'Knowledge hub' offers help with TCFD recommendations
01 May 2018The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), in partnership with the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB), has created an online platform to host a range of tools and information intended to help organisations implement its recommendations.
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EU carbon market weekly update - 30 April 2018
01 May 2018The end of compliance buying takes away a key pillar of support for EU carbon prices, but does not necessarily mean a correction is in store, says Louis Redshaw.
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Germany's KGAL attracts €382m into latest renewables fund
01 May 2018German investment manager KGAL has secured €382 million ($460 million) by the second close of its fourth Enhanced Sustainable Power Fund (ESPF 4).