News

• ISO working group eyes standard for green loans

  06 August 2018

  An International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) working group currently developing a green bond standard has also launched plans to create a standard for green loans, Environmental Finance has learned.

• FSFL becomes biggest solar yieldco in UK

  06 August 2018

  Foresight Solar Fund Limited (FSFL) has completed the acquisition of a portfolio of solar farms with a combined generating capacity of 114MW, in a deal that makes it the largest of the solar-focused UK-listed yieldcos.

• People moves: Man Group, APG

  06 August 2018

  Jason Mitchell has been appointed as co-head of responsible investment at investment management firm Man Group. Across its investment managers, Man Group manages $ 113.7 billion for its global clients.

• Last chance to vote in poll of voluntary carbon market!

  03 August 2018

  Voting in Environmental Finance's annual survey of the voluntary carbon market closes on 10 August.

• PGGM acquires half of a 332 MW renewables portfolio

  03 August 2018

  Dutch asset manager PGGM will buy a 50% interest of a US wind and a solar project by EDF Renewables North America.

• Lloyds Bank to stop financing new coal plants

  03 August 2018

  Lloyds Banking Group will not fund new coal-fired power stations or thermal coal mines, or bank new clients which derive most of their revenue from such operations, it has said.

• ‘Heat stress’ will hit Asian and African economies hard by 2045, say analysts

  03 August 2018

  The economic cost of climate change is likely to be felt most acutely over the next 30 years in Africa and South East Asia, according to risk analysis firm Verisk Maplecroft.

• Sustainable cities are APG's biggest responsible investment theme

  02 August 2018

  Dutch asset manager APG allocated €24.5 billion ($28.5 million) in 2017 in investments that it considers to contribute to the theme of sustainable cities and communities, one of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations

• Actis readies open-source SDG assessment tool

  02 August 2018

  Emerging markets investor Actis plans to introduce an open-source framework for assessing the contribution of its portfolio companies with the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

• German insurers warn against ESG goals diluting Solvency II

  01 August 2018

  German insurers have warned the European Commission (EC) against formulating inflexible rules around ESG investing as part of its 'action plan' for boosting such allocations.