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  • Risky business: Why 1.5-aligned strategies are key to preserving capital

    Decision-makers with responsibility for capital need to make bold, upfront investments in innovative sustainability solutions to limit climate change. An improved understanding of physical climate risks can help make this 'strategy overhaul' happen

  • The four characteristics of impact investors

    02 November 2018

    A draft set of four characteristics that define impact investors has been launched, in a bid to help the market continue to "scale up with integrity".

  • People Moves: World Bank, BNP Paribas, BlackRock

    02 November 2018

    Jingdong Hua has been appointed as vice president and treasurer of the World Bank, and will start his new post on 1 January.

  • Last chance to vote in Environmental Finance Market Rankings

    02 November 2018

    Voting in Environmental Finance's Annual Market Rankings – the most closely watched survey of the world's environmental markets – will close at midnight on Monday (5 November).

  • Comment from the GIIN conference - will impact investing supplant ESG?

    01 November 2018

    The concept of impact investing is gaining traction. But will it overtake ESG, asks Peter Cripps

  • Stranded assets warning for $60bn of Asian coal plants

    01 November 2018

    A projected drop in renewable energy costs will leave $60 billion of coal burning plants in Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines 'stranded' within a decade, a report by NGO Carbon Tracker has warned.

  • Building the energy efficiency marketplace

    01 November 2018

    Improving the energy efficiency of buildings is about more than just boosting financial returns, says Clare Taylor

  • UK government rejects calls for mandatory climate-related reporting

    01 November 2018

    The UK government has rebutted calls from a parliamentary committee to require companies to make climate-related financial disclosures.

  • Green bonds round-up, 31 Oct 2018

    31 October 2018

    German utility EnBW has raised €500 million ($573 million) from its inaugural issue on the green bond market.

  • No alternative: Making sustainable infrastructure the only option

    Only a fraction of global climate finance is reaching European cities despite their crucial role in decarbonising the economy. Developing a bankable project pipeline and new finance solutions replicable across cities is key to meet the enormous need for sustainable infrastructure