News

• Norges Bank backs climate and water shareholder resolutions

  20 April 2018

  The advisor to the world's largest sovereign wealth fund has thrown its weight behind climate-related shareholder resolutions with energy companies Imperial Oil and TransCanada.

• £500m fund launched to invest in Indian renewables

  20 April 2018

  A new fund has been seeded with £240 million ($340 million) to invest in "green energy infrastructure" in India.

• 'Big and boring' pension funds need development finance price to drop, says PGGM

  19 April 2018

  Development finance institutions (DFIs) aiming to meet the UN's Sustainable Development Goals must work harder to create more projects and drive their price down if they are to attract large investors like pension funds, according to PGGM.

• TCFD targets 500 backers before autumn

  19 April 2018

  The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) secretariat has set a goal for 500 companies to commit this year to implement the recommendations, and has the backing of the Governor of England, according to Bloomberg.

• EBRD working group to present TCFD physical risk guidance

  19 April 2018

  A working group to advance the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD)'s guidance on physical climate risk will present its findings next month.

• JP Morgan and BlackRock launch ESG emerging market fixed income index

  19 April 2018

  JP Morgan and BlackRock have joined forces to launch what they claim to be the "first-of-its kind" suite of emerging markets, fixed income indexes that integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors.

• Fiji to hit the green bond market again

  18 April 2018

  Fiji is planning to revisit the green bond market following its inaugural green transaction six months ago, Environmental Finance understands.

• Water investments insufficient to meet SDGs, say experts

  18 April 2018

  Investment in water projects must be greatly increased if the key water-related ambition of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to be met, according to the World Water Council.

• Impax predicts investments of $7.5 trn in water infrastructure

  18 April 2018

  Some $7.5 trillion is expected to be spent globally on water infrastructure over the next 15 years, according to Hubert Aarts, executive director at Impax Asset Management.

• Green bond round-up, 18 April 2018

  18 April 2018

  BNP Paribas has returned to the green bond market with a €500 million ($618 million), six-year offering paying a coupon of 1.00%.