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  • Green bonds round-up, 25 July

    25 July 2018

    The City of Toronto has completed a green bond issue worth C$300 million ($228 million), becoming the second city in Canada to issue green-labelled notes, following Ottawa's C$102 million issue in November.

  • Environment Agency Pension Fund smashes 2020 decarbonisation goal

    25 July 2018

    The UK’s Environment Agency Pension Fund (EAPF) has beaten its own portfolio decarbonisation target two years ahead of schedule.

  • Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan invests C$200m in energy storage firm

    25 July 2018

    The C$189.5 billion ($144.3 billion) Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has committed to invest C$200 million in the acquisition of energy storage projects in Ontario, Canada.

  • Capital goods sector 'disappoints on reporting Scope 3 emissions'

    24 July 2018

    The capital goods sector's disclosure and management of Scope 3 emissions is poor, and lags that of the autos sector, a report has found.

  • Comment: Time to start hugging trees

    24 July 2018

    Sustainable forestry and forest conservation do not currently receive the attention they deserve, says Peter Cripps

  • EU carbon prices 'could push higher in H2'

    23 July 2018

    Prices in the EU's turbo-charged carbon market could make moderate gains in the second half of 2018, according to analysts, but their longer-term outlook is cautious.

  • Norges Bank endorses EU public reporting reforms

    23 July 2018

    The investment manager of the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund has welcomed proposals to increasingly consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in the European public reporting framework.

  • Foresight buys anaerobic digestion plant on behalf of pension fund

    23 July 2018

    Asset manager Foresight has completed the acquisition a 2.5MW operational anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in the UK, on behalf of a pension fund.

  • EU carbon market update, 23 July

    23 July 2018

  • KfW calculates impact of recent green bond issues

    23 July 2018

    German development bank KfW estimates that the €612 million ($715 million) of green paper it issued in the first six months of this year will save about €72 million/year in terms of fuel costs and other environmental and social impacts.