Archive

  • Two insurers invest $17m in weather predictive technology

    17 March 2017

    Established modellers are "charging too much and delivering too little", says Weather Analytics

  • EF BRIEFS: Invenergy, Green Climate Fund, Borealis

    15 March 2017

    Invenergy, a Chicago-based clean energy company, has bought a 64MW solar power plant in Uruguay for an undisclosed price.

  • Circular economy can save 11% of world's water demand

    10 March 2017

    Circular economy solutions have the potential to save 400 billion cubic metres of water annually, 11% of the world's water demand, according to a new report.

  • Suez and Canadian pension fund acquire GE Water for €3.2bn

    09 March 2017

    French waste and water group Suez and Canadian pension fund manager Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec (CDPQ) have partnered to buy General Electric's (GE) water division.

  • Water potential is in Africa rather than China

    03 March 2017

    Africa, rather than China, is where growth potential in water lies, according to a manager of one of the leading water funds.

  • AP3 more than doubles green bond investments in 2016

    28 February 2017

    Sweden's third national pension fund, AP3, has more than doubled its green bond investments in 2016, from SEK4.5 billion ($500 million) to SEK9.5 billion.

  • MSCI, Citigroup and UNEP FI speakers confirmed for water conference

    24 February 2017

    Representatives from the London Stock Exchange, MSCI, Citigroup, Amundi, Environmental Agency Pension Fund, UNEP FI, SABMiller and the University of Oxford have joined the list of speakers confirmed to appear at Environmental Finance's Water: Risk, Opportunity and Sustainability conference in London.

  • Sandor reflects on development of environmental markets

    22 February 2017

    Richard Sandor, a pioneer of environmental markets, has published a collection of articles recounting the development of carbon trading in the US, Europe and China and similar markets for combatting acid rain and improving water quality.

  • Flood Re reveals contrasts in UK insurers' flood modelling

    13 February 2017

    Britain's flood reinsurance programme has exposed insurers' ability to model and manage flood risk, as Flood Re's chief actuary Gary McInally discusses with Christopher Cundy

  • Conservation finance 'sees $8.2bn of private capital'

    12 January 2017

    The private sector has committed $8.2 billion of capital into conservation investments between 2004 and 2015, a report has found, with "dramatic growth" coming in the last two years.