Archive

  • Profile: Martin Berg of Climate Asset Management

    22 May 2023

    The new CEO of Climate Asset Management, Martin Berg, tells Thomas Cox about the challenge of scaling natural capital.

  • Climate Asset Management to lead Apple 'carbon removal' fund

    14 April 2023

    Apple has launched a fund to which it will commit "up to" $200 million to invest in "high-impact, scalable, nature-based carbon removal offsets".

  • Vague COP15 agreement is 'not a Paris moment', warns HSBC

    20 December 2022

    The global biodiversity framework agreed at the COP15 conference this week failed to meet expectations among some observers that it could provide an equivalent target to 'net zero' for nature, according to a research note by HSBC.

  • Biodiversity credits could be 'huge for finance'

    17 June 2022

    If biodiversity credits can capture the nature-related value of an area, they could become a "huge thing for finance", an investor has claimed.

  • Exclusive investor reaction to IPCC report: No part of portfolio immune

    09 August 2021

    A landmark report published today by leading climate scientists has been greeted by investors as a chastening warning of the potentially catastrophic impacts of current global emissions, but also an important signifier of the transition required.

  • Natural Capital Investment 2021 conference roundup

    05 March 2021

    Environmental Finance's Natural Capital Investment 2021 virtual conference has ended after a full day of panels, speed networking sessions, and a live discussion group

  • BSI readies natural capital accounting standard as investors seek impact 'baseline'

    04 March 2021

    A forthcoming accounting standard for natural capital could help investors grappling with the problem of assigning a financial value to preservation and improvement of nature.

  • 'The time is right to invest in natural capital'

    12 October 2020

    How does HSBC Pollination Climate Asset Management aim to attract large-scale investment in natural capital, Michael Hurley asks

  • People Moves: BlackRock, Macquarie Infrastructure Debt Investment Solutions, AP4, ING, Lightsource BP, European Investment Bank, IIGCC, DNCA Finance and FRC

    29 June 2018

    BlackRock has lost one of the leaders of its push into impact investing, Environmental Finance has learned.

  • COP Blog: Getting private investors on board for climate finance

    17 November 2016

    European Investment Bank
    Here at COP22 in Marrakesh in the blue and green zones where ministers, financiers, climate experts NGOs and multinationals mingle, the talk is all about how to implement the Paris Agreement - and raise the required financing for low-carbon and adaptation projects.