News

• Foresight Solar Fund Limited (the "Company") Proposed Placing of Ordinary Shares and NAV Update

  19 June 2018

  The Board of Foresight Solar Fund Limited announces its intention to raise a target amount of £40 million by way of a placing of new ordinary shares of no par value in the Company ("New Shares") (the "Placing").

• Acquisition of Solwaybank onshore wind farm in the UK

  19 June 2018

  "TRIG" or the "Company", together with its subsidiaries "the Group", a London-listed investment company advised by InfraRed Capital Partners as Investment Manager and RES (Renewable Energy Systems) as Operations Manager.

• Lightsource BP delivers its first Indian utility scale solar project in partnership with UK Climate Investments

  19 June 2018

  London, 18 June 2018 - Lightsource BP, a global leader in the development, financing and operation of solar energy projects, is pleased to announce the completion of a renewables project in Maharashtra, India.

• LGIM launches Future World fund for DC schemes

  19 June 2018

  A multi-asset fund for defined contribution (DC) schemes that 'tilts' toward top-performing companies based on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors has been added to the award-winning Future World family of funds.

• Shovels hit the ground as Foresight invests in additional subsidy-free solar projects in Spain

  19 June 2018

  London: 19 June 2018 - Foresight Group ("Foresight") is pleased to announce construction has commenced on its third subsidy-free solar asset in Iberia ("the Project"). The 10MW cluster, Escalonilla Norte and Escalonilla Sur, is located in the municipalities of Escalonilla and La Puebla de Montalban (Toledo), Central Spain.

• Nephila Climate And Allianz Close Proxy Revenue Swap And Corporate PPA For Macquarie Capital's Lal Lal Wind Farm

  19 June 2018

  JUNE 19, 2018 - HAMILTON, BERMUDA - Nephila Climate ("NCx"), the weather and ESG-driven specialty division of Nephila Holdings Ltd., together with Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty's alternative risk transfer unit ("Allianz"), announced today that they have closed two related transactions to offset future price and volume risk for the Lal Lal wind farm project ("Lal Lal"), being developed in Victoria, Australia. Lal Lal is owned by a partnership comprising InfraRed Capital Partners, Macquarie Capital and Northleaf Capital.

• Green bond market 'to break $200bn barrier in 2018'

  19 June 2018

  The green bond market is expected to see more than $200 billion of annual issuance in 2018.

• Actiam New Member of the ICMA Executive Committee

  19 June 2018

  The International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) announced Foppe-Jan van der Meij of Actiam as its new member of the Executive Committee of the Green Bond Principles (GBP) at the annual meeting on 14 June 2018.

• GRI's sustainability reporting standards replace guidelines next month

  19 June 2018

  From 1 July, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) will support only companies that use its Sustainability Reporting Standards, not those that persist with its older reporting guidelines.

• Why SwissRe stripped two green bonds of their green label

  19 June 2018

  SwissRe last year disrobed two green bonds of their green label because it was unhappy with their sustainability reporting.