Peter Cripps

Articles by Peter Cripps

  • China issues first ever "double green bond", listed in London

    11 November 2016

    China's first ever covered green bond was listed on the London Stock Exchange today.

  • Hannon Armstrong raises $77m from latest share sale

    10 November 2016

    Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI) has raised approximately $76.9 million, after expenses, from its latest public equity offering.

  • Sustainable investors see the bright side in the Trump shock

    09 November 2016

    Sustainable investors are optimistic that Donald Trump's victory will not be as negative for their portfolios as many of the headlines suggest.

  • Paris Agreement comes into force

    04 November 2016

    Investors and businesses had a renewed impetus to embrace the emerging low-carbon economy today, as the Paris Agreement to limit global warming at 2°C officially came into force.

  • Aviva earmarks two coal companies for divestment

    04 November 2016

    Aviva has earmarked two coal companies for "potential divestment", and is considering ditching eight others that are not responding to its requests for engagement.

  • Green bond comment: October

    02 November 2016

    Will investors ever pay up for a green bond?

  • Mexico City returns to green bond market

    28 October 2016

    Mexico City is returning to the green bond market just weeks after issuing a $2 billion of paper to help finance an airport, Environmental Finance can reveal.

  • GIB and Salix lend to UK's biggest non-PFI streetlighting project

    24 October 2016

    The UK's Green Investment Bank (GIB) has made a £10.2 million ($12.5 million) loan to a municipal authority to part-fund the biggest non-private finance initiative (PFI) streetlighting project in the country to date.

  • US insurers 'turning blind eye to climate change'

    21 October 2016

    Many US insurers are still turning a blind eye to climate change, with less than 20% attaining high scores for their climate risk reporting, a study has warned.

  • The process of integrating the environment and finance has only just begun

    19 October 2016

    The 'green economy' is a hot topic at the moment. It moved up the agenda thanks to the game-changing Paris climate agreement. And momentum continued to grow this year as a result of the importance that the G20 has placed on 'green finance'.