Peter Cripps

Articles by Peter Cripps

  • Goldman to invest $150bn in clean energy by 2025

    02 November 2015

    ​Goldman Sachs has set itself a $150 billion clean energy investment target, as it said environmental issues have become a core part of its business.

  • Businesses lay out their demands ahead of COP21

    02 November 2015

    A coalition representing some of the biggest companies in the world has cranked up the pressure on finance ministers to deliver a "robust and meaningful agreement" at the Paris climate summit in a month.

  • EF BRIEFS: BlackRock, Citi, Ethos, TerraForm Global

    30 October 2015

    BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager, is considering launching a fossil fuel-free fund. A representative of the company revealed that the fund could be launched next year while speaking at a conference on financial implications for the Paris climate change summit in London.

  • INDCs can limit global warming to 2.7°C, says UN's Figueres

    30 October 2015

    Investors have welcomed research suggesting that the national pledges made ahead of the Paris climate summit have the potential to limit global warming to 2.7°C.

  • Signatories to GBPs break through 100-mark

    28 October 2015

    The number of signatories to the Green Bond Principles (GBPs) has broken through the 100-mark, representing another milestone in the market's rapid growth.

  • Green bond comment, October

    28 October 2015

    A series of chunky issues have provided a welcome boost the green bond market in recent weeks.

  • Anti-ESG guidance in US is repealed

    26 October 2015

    Influential guidance that discouraged US fiduciaries from taking account of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment factors has been repealed, in "a major breakthrough for responsible investment in the US".

  • DBJ prices €300m sustainability bond

    16 October 2015

    Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) has issued a €300 million ($340 million) 'sustainability bond' that will help finance efficient buildings and loans to green companies.

  • Eiris downgrades VW

    14 October 2015

    Volkswagen (VW) has been downgraded by environmental, social and governance (ESG) rating firm EIRIS, owing to its "egregious" emissions scandal, Environmental Finance has learned.

  • New York's clean energy catalyst

    14 October 2015

    The state's 'green bank' is poised to help scale up clean energy investment and has even asked for its own borrowing powers. Its President, Alfred Griffin, talks to Peter Cripps