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  • Winners of Environmental Finance’s Sustainable Investment Awards revealed

    06 August 2019

    The winners of Environmental Finance’s inaugural Sustainable Investment Awards have been announced.

  • KGAL exits five Spanish solar farms

    06 August 2019

    German investment manager KGAL has sold two solar farms in Spain to Helia Renovables II, a fund managed by Spanish renewables investor Plenium Partners Asset Management, and will sell a further three to it in the last quarter of the year. The price of the sales was not disclosed.

  • EU GBS-compatible Climate Bonds Standard gets CBI sign-off

    05 August 2019

    An updated version of the Climate Bonds Standard framework has been published that acts as a ‘universal adaptor’ for international green debt standards including the EU’s Green Bond Standard (GBS).

  • The state of sustainable finance

    05 August 2019

    How far have we come, and what more needs to be done? Michael Eckhart shares his reflections based on a career working in sustainable finance.

  • Marfrig's sustainable cattle bond attracts new ESG investors

    05 August 2019

    Beef producer Marfrig Global Foods was able to attract additional environmental, social and governance (ESG) investors for its $500 million Sustainable Transition Bond issued earlier this week.

  • People Moves: Citi, BlackRock, ClientEarth

    02 August 2019

    Eckhart retires from Citi, O'Flynn appointed BAI Head of Sustainable Investing and more

  • Canadian securities regulators issue climate disclosure guidance

    02 August 2019

    Canada’s securities regulators have published guidance to help companies improve their disclosure of material risks posed by climate change.

  • Morgan Stanley Investment Management fund identifies plastics as engagement priority

    02 August 2019

    The reduction of plastic waste has been identified as an engagement theme by the managers of Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM)’s Global Sustain fund.

  • ESG in Fixed Income, featuring the Green Bonds Americas conference 2019 - early bird ends this Friday

    01 August 2019

    The fifth annual ESG in Fixed Income, featuring the Green Bonds Americas conference will take place in New York on 17 September.

  • BlackRock loses $90.4bn from failing to spot stranded asset risks, says IEEFA

    01 August 2019

    The world's largest asset manager, BlackRock, has seen $90.4 billion knocked off the value of its listed equities holdings over the last decade because it failed to address stranded asset risk in the fossil fuel industry, according to a report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA).