Peter Cripps

Articles by Peter Cripps

  • Impact investor receives prestigious honour

    02 June 2022

    An impact investor is to receive an award from the UK's royal family, with the announcement made to coincide with a national celebration of 70 years of the Queen's reign.

  • Dolma Nepalese hydro firm receives IPO approval

    27 May 2022

    A hydropower developer in Nepal, partly owned by a Dolma impact fund, has received approval from the regulator to list on the country's stock exchange.

  • Green Century's Samuelrich awaits McDonald's board vote

    25 May 2022

    A sustainable investment specialist will tomorrow learn whether she has won her bid for election to the board of McDonald's, a role for which she was nominated to tackle an animal welfare issue at the fast food giant.

  • HSBC rejects comments by its head of RI about climate

    23 May 2022

    HSBC has distanced itself from the remarks of a senior employee who delivered a controversial speech about 'Why investors need not worry about climate risk'.

  • Carney: Some fossil fuel investment justified

    11 May 2022

    The transition to a net-zero carbon economy requires "nothing short of a revolution", although some limited investment in fossil fuels is justified in the short term, Mark Carney has said.

  • Webinar to explore green financial growth in Mexico

    04 May 2022

    The growth prospects of the green bond market in Mexico will be the focus of a webinar presented by the IFC in collaboration with Environmental Finance.

  • EFRAG's proposed sustainability standards welcomed

    03 May 2022

    The release of draft European corporate sustainability reporting standards has been hailed as a "much needed strengthening of EU disclosure rules".

  • New York State Retirement Fund supports proposal to stop underwriting fossil fuels

    27 April 2022

    The New York State comptroller has pledged to support of shareholder proposals that ask three insurance companies to stop underwriting new fossil fuel supplies.

  • Taxonomania

    14 April 2022

    Can the patchwork of taxonomies springing up across the world ever be reconciled, ask Genevieve Redgrave and Peter Cripps

  • Energy efficiency's 'time has come', says financier

    25 March 2022

    A fund that focuses on energy efficiency investments has raised £100 million ($130 million) on the same day it announced its intention to tap the market.