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Two insurers invest $17m in weather predictive technology
17 March 2017Established modellers are "charging too much and delivering too little", says Weather Analytics
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EF BRIEFS: Invenergy, Green Climate Fund, Borealis
15 March 2017Invenergy, a Chicago-based clean energy company, has bought a 64MW solar power plant in Uruguay for an undisclosed price.
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Circular economy can save 11% of world's water demand
10 March 2017Circular 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.
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Suez and Canadian pension fund acquire GE Water for €3.2bn
09 March 2017French 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.
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Water potential is in Africa rather than China
03 March 2017Africa, rather than China, is where growth potential in water lies, according to a manager of one of the leading water funds.
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AP3 more than doubles green bond investments in 2016
28 February 2017Sweden'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.
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MSCI, Citigroup and UNEP FI speakers confirmed for water conference
24 February 2017Representatives 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.
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Sandor reflects on development of environmental markets
22 February 2017Richard 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.
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Flood Re reveals contrasts in UK insurers' flood modelling
13 February 2017Britain'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
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Conservation finance 'sees $8.2bn of private capital'
12 January 2017The 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.