News

• PRI showcases ESG integration approaches

  14 February 2013

  The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) secretariat has published two reports to help investors better incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into investment decision making.

• ESG becoming more important to investors

  14 February 2013

  Investors are expected to pay more attention to companies' environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance as extreme weather and social unrest become more persistent, according to a new report.

• Revenues from 'shale oil boom' should fund low-carbon technologies – PwC

  14 February 2013

  Governments need to invest some of the revenues from a predicted shale oil boom in low-carbon technologies to balance its environmental impacts, PwC has said, as it predicts the technology will significantly reduce oil prices by 2035.

• Obama urges increased commitment to renewables

  13 February 2013

  The US must strengthen its commitment to the clean energy sector to keep pace with China and other countries, said Barack Obama in his State of the Union address, as he unveiled a plan to double US renewable energy generation by 2020.

• Fund set for UK solar buying spree

  13 February 2013

  A private equity fund backed by leading UK investor Jon Moulton is planning to ramp up its investments in industrial solar power installations, having deployed almost £40 million ($62.6 million) since December 2011.

• China launches energy efficiency marketplace

  12 February 2013

  China has added an energy-savings trading platform in Beijing to the basket of market-based measures it hopes will slow growth of the country's energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.

• Axa draws up ESG framework for sovereign debt

  11 February 2013

  Axa Investment Managers (Axa IM) has unveiled a new framework for analysing countries' environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance and has suggested ways in which it can be applied to sovereign debt portfolios.

• New study to help guard against 'stranded assets'

  11 February 2013

  A research programme has been launched to identify high-carbon sectors and assets in danger of becoming devalued or written off amid the shift towards a greener economy.

• Key US tax incentive is revived

  08 February 2013

  US officials have found $150 million to resurrect a key tax incentive programme for clean energy projects.

• SunPower shrugs off widening fourth quarter losses

  08 February 2013

  Solar manufacturer SunPower suffered wider losses in the final quarter of 2012 but said it is confident of a much stronger year ahead, despite the oversupply problems that continue to dog the sector.