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Québec gears up to issue green bond
24 February 2017Québec is gearing up to roadshow a Canadian dollar-denominated green bond, in its inaugural issue.
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NEST to battle climate change with default strategy
24 February 2017The UK's national workplace pension provider the National Employee Saving Trust (NEST), will shift part of its default strategy into a newly created "climate-aligned" fund.
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'White swans in the dark' - investors are still ignoring long-term risks, warns report
24 February 2017Investors and analysts are still ignoring longer-term risks, having failed to learn lessons from the financial crisis, according to a new report.
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UN climate chief calls on finance sector to show sustainability leadership
23 February 2017The finance industry should adopt a leading role in promoting sustainable development, according to the head of the UN's office on climate change.
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Co-op to offset customers' carbon
23 February 2017Co-op Insurance has introduced a carbon offset programme for its new motor and home insurance customers as standard, in a move it claims is a UK first.
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QTC mandates three banks for inaugural green bond
23 February 2017The Queensland Treasury Corporation (QTC) has mandated three banks to roadshow its inaugural green bond announced last week.
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The Art of the Green Deal
22 February 2017The following describes a hypothetical U.S. government policy nicknamed the "Big Green Bond Program" based on U.S. President Donald Trump's chronicled approaches to conducting business. The policy is designed to position this new government (sovereign) bond program to meet the growing need to finance domestic green infrastructure.
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CDP and French Government to assess low-carbon transition readiness
22 February 2017CDP – formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project – and the French government have partnered in a new initiative to assess company readiness for the transition to a low-carbon economy.
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Green bond round-up, 22 February 2017
22 February 2017National Australia Bank (NAB) is looking to issue, a euro-denominated green bond, its second offering.
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Sandor reflects on development of environmental markets
22 February 2017Richard Sandor, a pioneer of environmental markets, has published a collection of articles recounting the development of carbon trading in the US, Europe and China and similar markets for combatting acid rain and improving water quality.