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27 CEOs back TCFD recommendations
21 April 201727 CEOs from major corporations have committed to implement the draft recommendations laid out by the Financial Stability Board's Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
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EF BRIEFS: ABN Amro, NESF, JLEN
21 April 2017ABN Amro has received €150 million ($160 million) of financing as part of the EU president Jean-Claude Juncker's "Investment Plan for Europe", that it will use to finance green loans to the European shipping industry.
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IFC selects Amundi to manage its $2bn emerging market green bond fund
21 April 2017The International Finance Corporation has formally announced the launch of its $2 billion emerging market green bond fund, as exclusively revealed by Environmental Finance last year, and has appointed Amundi to manage it.
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Corporate pension plan sustainability guide launched
21 April 2017Two of the world's largest business-led sustainability initiatives, the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and UN Global Compact, have partnered to create a guide for making corporate pension funds more sustainable.
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Comment: Why impact is the word of the moment
21 April 2017Measuring impact is increasingly a preoccupation of investors in the environmental, social and governance (ESG) space.
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GIB sale reaction - brilliant news or a disaster?
20 April 2017The Green Investment Bank's (GIB) long-expected sale to Macquarie has been controversial - Greenpeace said it was a disaster, but one renewables investor said the GIB would now stop "ruining the market".
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Macquarie could sell 10% of GIB assets following purchase
20 April 2017Up to 10% of the value of Green Investment Bank's (GIB) assets could be sold following its sale to Australian Bank Macquarie.
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GPC: Protecting the GIB's green mandate
20 April 2017As part of the terms of the sale of the Green Investment Bank (GIB) the UK government set up the Green Purposes Company (GPC), which owns a "special share" allocation designed to safeguard the GIB mission to channel money into green projects.
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GIB sold to Macquarie-led consortium for £2.3bn
20 April 2017The Green Investment Bank (GIB) has been controversially sold to a consortium led by Australian bank Macquarie for £2.3 billion ($2.9 billion).
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Q&A with Paul Byrne on QBE Insurance's inaugural green bond
20 April 2017QBE Insurance Group is gearing up to issue the sector's first green bond, Paul Byrne its group treasurer speaks to Environmental Finance exclusively