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  • Public/private-sector coalition formed to promote green investment opportunities

    11 December 2015

    Investors, asset managers, government bodies and others have formed an alliance to promote investment opportunities in green infrastructure.

  • Greater public sector support 'vital' to achieving $1trn green bond market

    22 September 2015

    Public sector support is "vital" to help the green bond market scale up to $1 trillion by 2020, a figure that would help avoid catastrophic climate change, according to a report by the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI).

  • Increasing evidence that environmental risks are 'material'

    15 July 2014

    Evidence is mounting that environmental risks are becoming material to business and the economy as a whole, a report commissioned by the UN Environment Programme has warned.

  • People moves

    31 March 2014

    The industry's most important recent moves, including new roles for Martin Skancke, Charles Gooderham and Zoe Knight. Appointments have been announced for Standard Bank, Tau, SolarCity and Bridges Ventures, among others.

  • Zoe Knight promoted to replace Nick Robins

    17 March 2014

    Zoe Knight has been appointed head of HSBC's Climate Change Centre of Excellence. She replaces Nick Robins who left the bank to become a co-director of the UN Environmental Programme's (UNEP) Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System.

  • Robins to leave HSBC to spearhead UNEP Inquiry

    28 January 2014

    Nick Robins is to step down as head of HSBC's Climate Change Centre to help lead a United Nations Environment Programme inquiry into how to green the world's economy.

  • Stranded assets: big four UK miners could see $20bn hit to coal assets - HSBC

    21 January 2014

    The big four UK-listed miners could see more than $20 billion wiped from the value of their coal assets in a low-carbon scenario, analysts at HSBC have calculated.

  • A watershed year

    10 January 2014

    It has been a landmark year for the fledgling green bond market, which was buoyed by unprecedented growth in 2013. But can it continue, asks Peter Cripps

  • COP19 to lay foundations for new global climate deal

    11 November 2013

    The climate negotiations that kicked off today in Warsaw are expected to play a crucial role in laying the foundations for a new global agreement in Paris in two years' time.

  • A crisis looms

    17 October 2013

    Jeremy Leggett's new book warns of turmoil ahead for the global energy and financial systems, but there is still hope for the longer-term future. His work is reviewed by Nick Robins