News

• Mitsubishi among victims of FTSE4Good review

  11 March 2013

  Mitsubishi Corporation is among four companies dropped from the FTSE4Good index family, while 20 new firms have been added to the environmental, social and governance (ESG)-focused indexes.

• Hobley named as CMIA president

  08 March 2013

  Anthony Hobley of law firm Norton Rose has been elected as president of the Climate Markets and Investment Association (CMIA).

• Most US insurers lack climate change strategy - Ceres

  08 March 2013

  The vast majority of US insurers have failed to demonstrate that they have devised climate change strategies, a survey has revealed.

• Bigger-than-expected SolarCity loss fails to worry analyst

  08 March 2013

  Investors should not be deterred by SolarCity's unexpectedly big quarterly loss, because the company is in a strong position compared with its competitors and is reducing its cost of capital, an analyst has said.

• Pooled investment vehicles could boost renewables - CPI

  08 March 2013

  The creation of large, publicly traded, pooled investment vehicles is among the measures that could encourage pension funds and insurers to ramp up allocations to renewables, a new report claims.

• Investors should look to low-carbon projects, says IFC Treasurer

  07 March 2013

  Investors in green bonds could get better risk-adjusted returns by investing directly in underlying low-carbon projects, according to the treasurer of the International Finance Corporation (IFC).

• EFET launches standard contract for wood pellet trade

  07 March 2013

  A standard contract for wood pellets has been launched in Europe in a move to establish a traded market, but traders say demand is currently too low for activity to rise substantially.

• AB InBev environmental efforts yield $500m

  07 March 2013

  Anheuser-Busch InBev generated additional revenues of $420 million from recycling waste streams and saved $92 million from more efficient energy and water use since 2009, the brewing giant has claimed.

• Veteran environmental broker launches carbon, REC company

  06 March 2013

  A veteran of a leading environmental markets brokerage has struck out on his own to establish a financial services company focusing on renewable energy credits (RECs) and US carbon markets.

• Coal leaves renewables behind in energy race - WEF

  06 March 2013

  Coal has grown 10 times more quickly than renewables since the beginning of the millennium in terms of energy generation, according to a new report, which predicts further strong growth of fossil fuels.