Archive

  • Exelon earmarks $5bn for clean energy

    18 November 2010

    US utility Exelon is to invest nearly $5 billion in low-carbon energy projects starting this year, as part of plans to cut carbon dioxide emissions by more than 15 million tonnes a year by 2020.

  • 'Huge potential' for water impact on investors, but response limited

    18 November 2010

    Investors are failing to factor water risk into their investment decisions because of a lack of information, according to a leading activist investor.

  • CalPERS puts $500m to work in climate strategy

    18 November 2010

    The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is investing $500 million in an environmental strategy based on HSBC's Global Climate Change Benchmark Index.

  • US to raid loan guarantees to save clean energy grants?

    11 November 2010

    The US midterm elections may have dealt a fatal blow to the federal cash grant and loan guarantee programmes for the clean energy sector, and financiers and developers are cool on a plan to sacrifice one programme to save the other.

  • 'Grim picture' for environmental investing set to brighten?

    11 November 2010

    Institutional investors are risk averse, time-poor and "carbon and climate fatigued", making it difficult to generate interest in environmentally-orientated investing, according to a leading investment consultant.

  • SRI investment growth outpaces wider US market

    11 November 2010

    Growth in socially responsible and sustainable investments (SRI) has substantially outpaced the broader US market, despite the economic recession, according to the latest bi-annual study from the Social Investment Forum (SIF).

  • Biofuel firm sends pork fat flying

    11 November 2010

    A biofuel plant in Louisiana is turning chicken fat and pork lard into renewable diesel, in what its joint venture partners say is the first commercial-scale advanced biofuels facility in the US.

  • Van Eck launches rare earths ETF

    02 November 2010

    Money manager Van Eck Global has launched an exchange-traded fund (ETF) offering investors exposure to a possible bull-run in the value of 'rare earth' metals.

  • Impax Asian fund doubles war chest

    28 October 2010

    Impax's Asia-focused environmental equity fund has boosted its coffers by £131 million ($208 million) in a secondary fundraising on the London Stock Exchange.

  • SAM founder Ringger launches sustainable bank

    28 October 2010

    Sustainable investment veteran Reto Ringger is setting up bank aimed at private investors.