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Time the green bond market grew up

The exclusion of Repsol's bond from the main green bond indexes highlights that a lack of a clear definition of what is green is hindering the market, argues Keith Mullin.

People Moves: PGGM, SASB, Hudson, RenewableUK

Dutch pension fund and asset manager PGGM's CEO Else Bos has resigned and will leave the company on 1 November 2017.

Comment: Trump and Paris - who will have the last laugh?

As he announced that the US was to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord, President Donald Trump claimed that the rest of the world was laughing at the US for signing the agreement, and they won't be laughing any longer.

Trump plan to renegotiate Paris dismissed as 'smoke and mirrors'

President Trump's suggestion that the US wants to renegotiate the Paris Agreement, when he announced the country's withdrawal from it, has been dismissed as smoke and mirrors by one industry analyst.

Breadth of ESG screening at Talanx touches €100bn mark

Talanx Group has expanded its screening of investments by non-financial criteria to cover 90% of its €110 billion ($123.4 billion) own portfolio, but requested stakeholders be patient as it implements the practice fully, which is "not a sprint".

Green bond market growth has slowed, says underwriter

Green bond market growth has slowed, says underwriter.

With the US out of Paris, will environmental investments increasingly shift to China?

Abandoning the Paris Climate Accord will come back to haunt the US, and China will benefit, argues Karine Hirn

Trump exits Paris Agreement, investors pour scorn

President Donald Trump followed through on his threat to pull the US out of the Paris Climate Accord, despite howls of protest that the US would surrender its leadership on climate action.

US withdrawal from Paris Agreement 'an irrelevance', say investors

With President Trump widely expected to announce the US' withdrawal from the Paris Agreement today, investors are sceptical over its implications on global climate action with one branding it an 'irrelevance'.

Could Mission Innovation be next to fall under Trump's environmental axe?