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  • EU carbon market weekly update - 26 April 2016

    26 April 2016

    Large gains on Thursday and Friday propelled the EUA price 9% higher to close the week at €5.96, a rise of 51c and just shy of the €6.00 level.

  • EF BRIEFS: UK infrastructure, Islamic leaders on climate action, TRIG, NDB, Alliander

    25 April 2016

    The UK's Pensions Infrastructure Platform (PIP) has reached the first close of its PIP Multi-Strategy Infrastructure fund, having raised £125 million ($181 million).

  • Vigeo Eiris 'severely' downgrades Mitsubishi Motors

    25 April 2016

    Environmental social and governance (ESG) ratings agency Vigeo Eiris has 'severely' downgraded Mitsubishi Motors, after the latter admitted to falsifying the emissions tests of 625,000 vehicles.

  • Investors eye €1bn for European energy efficiency projects

    25 April 2016

    A network of investors is being put together to help channel more than €1 billion ($1.1 billion) to energy efficiency projects in the European property sector.

  • Filling the gap - connecting financiers to energy efficiency projects

    25 April 2016

    A new investor network aims to help investors find suitable energy efficiency programmes, and speed up the flow of capital to this widely overlooked asset class, explains Steve Fawkes

  • ESG momentum is better indicator of return than absolute scores, says investor

    25 April 2016

    Incremental changes in companies' performance on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues are a better indicator of future investment performance than absolute scores, says Dutch asset manager NN Investment Partners (NN IP).

  • Real estate firm launches world's first all-green MTN programme

    22 April 2016

    A listed real estate company will launch the first medium-term note (MTN) programme to include green terms within it.

  • EF BRIEFS: SunEdison, BNCR, JLEN, World Bank, Capital Stage

    22 April 2016

    SunEdison, once the world's biggest renewable energy developer, has applied for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after its aggressive growth plans came unstuck.

  • FlexiGroup gains tighter prices on green tranche

    21 April 2016

    FlexiGroup has achieved tighter pricing for the green tranche of it latest asset backed security (ABS), Environmental Finance can reveal.

  • Moody's ups 2016 green bond forecast to $70bn

    21 April 2016

    Moody's has upped its prediction for green bond issuance for 2016 to $70 billion, after a record-breaking first quarter boosted by a spate of massive deals from Chinese.