Archive

  • G20 businesses to focus on green finance in 2016

    04 February 2016

    The B20 – a coalition of business associations from G20 economies that make policy recommendations – task force on growth has named green finance as its primary goal for 2016.

  • EF BRIEFS: Impax, CCLI, Engie, Vattenfall, Dong, KKR, NJR

    03 February 2016

    Impax Asset Management has sold a wind portfolio to Italian energy firm ERG Group for an undisclosed sum.

  • Carbon specialist devises method of measuring green bond impacts

    03 February 2016

    A US carbon offset registry is drafting a methodology for measuring the carbon impact of green bonds.

  • BlackRock renewables fund raised €275m

    03 February 2016

    BlackRock has reached a first close on a €275 million ($300 million) European wind and solar fund.

  • New York MTA issues $500m 'certified' green bond

    03 February 2016

    New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is to issue a green bond certified by the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI).

  • Kexim prices second green bond

    03 February 2016

    The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) has issued an almost three-times oversubscribed $400 million green bond.

  • Copenhagen city fund to divest from fossil fuels

    03 February 2016

    Copenhagen's DKK6.9 billion ($1 billion) investment fund is to sell its holdings in fossil fuel companies, according to local press reports.

  • Kexim set to issue second green bond

    02 February 2016

    The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) is set to issue its second dollar denominated green bond, which is expected to be priced later today.

  • UK government acts to protect green mission of GIB

    02 February 2016

    The privatisation of the UK's pioneering Green Investment Bank (GIB) moved a step closer today when the government announced that a 'special share' would be created to help ensure the bank retains its environmental goals, after the introduction of private capital.

  • Best performing funds of 2015: Pioneer Ecology

    02 February 2016

    The fund outperformed in 2015, helped by its decision to ditch solar and stick with wind stocks. Fund manager Christian Zimmermann talks to Peter Cripps.