News

• Why Zurich focusses on impact investing, as well as ESG integration

  05 November 2015

  Insurance giant Zurich has put impact investing at the heart of its responsibility strategy because, unlike environmental, social and governance (ESG) integration, it can deliver immediate results, according to a strategist for the company.

• Zurich commits $800m of $2bn green bond target

  05 November 2015

  Zurich Insurance has committed nearly $800 million of its landmark $2 billion target for investing in green bonds.

• GIB backs £107m waste-to-energy project

  05 November 2015

  The UK's Green Investment Bank (GIB) has taken a major equity stake in a waste-to-energy plant in Northern Ireland.

• Trade in forest-based carbon credits reaches record high

  05 November 2015

  The value of forest-based carbon credits traded last year soared 17% to a record $257 million from $219 million in 2013, according to Ecosystem Marketplace.

• Stock exchanges group issues guidelines on ESG reporting

  04 November 2015

  The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) has issued formal guidance to help stock exchanges implement stronger disclosure policies on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.

• NRW Bank attracts green buyers to €500m green bond

  04 November 2015

  NRW Bank has issued its third green bond, with the majority of the €500 million ($544 million) of paper sold to investors with a green or social mandate.

• Mexico's development bank's green bond five times oversubscribed

  04 November 2015

  Mexico's development bank, Nacional Financiera (Nafin), has become the first Latin American development bank to tap the green bond market, with a five-times oversubscribed $500 million issue.

• Energy-efficient property fund thumps benchmark for three years running

  04 November 2015

  Columbia Threadneedle's Low Carbon Workplace Fund has outperformed its benchmark by an average of 5.3 percentage points over the past three years.

• Time is running out to vote in the 16th Environmental Finance Annual Market Rankings

  04 November 2015

  There are only a few days left to vote in the Environmental Finance Annual Market Rankings – the largest and most closely watched survey of the world's environmental markets.

• BlackRock warns on stranded assets

  04 November 2015

  BlackRock has warned that companies with high-cost fossil fuel reserves are at risk of being devalued, adding that "climate change has arrived as an investment issue".