News

• Sustainable palm oil 'a serious business opportunity' – WWF

  05 April 2012

  Financial gains and other business benefits for palm oil producers outweigh the costs of meeting sustainable palm oil criteria, according to the WWF.

• NYSE and BNEF launch sectoral clean energy indexes

  05 April 2012

  NYSE Euronext and Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) have introduced three sector-focused global clean energy indexes.

• UK brokerage to aid access to green finance

  03 April 2012

  A specialist brokerage firm has been launched to help UK companies access finance for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.

• Sustainable investment groups to collaborate on global tally

  02 April 2012

  Regional sustainable investment groups are to collaborate to produce a first-of-its kind assessment of the size of the global sustainable and responsible investment market.

• Sustainability reduces corporate bond risk – Sarasin

  02 April 2012

  Bonds issued by companies with a high sustainability rating had a lower risk premium during the recent financial crisis than those issued by their less-sustainable peers, say analysts at Bank Sarasin.

• OPIC backs Indian renewables lender with $250m

  30 March 2012

  A US development finance institution has approved funding of $250 million to an Indian infrastructure lender to boost renewable energy growth in the country.

• Water needs clearer price to spur investments, say investors

  30 March 2012

  Water, like carbon dioxide emissions, needs to be priced to further propel much-needed investment, experts said.

• Political uncertainty on German solar raises 'boom-bust' risk

  30 March 2012

  Germany's lower house of parliament has agreed to feed-in tariff (FIT) cuts for new solar installations proposed by the government, but changes might still be made before the cuts are finally agreed, say industry experts.

• Shale gas industry needs ESG standards – F&C

  29 March 2012

  Investment firm F&C has started an initiative to indentify environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards for companies involved in shale gas extraction.

• PACE supporters lobby hard against federal objections

  29 March 2012

  Supporters of municipal bond programmes that pay the upfront costs of residential energy retrofits are lobbying hard to convince federal regulators that they should lift their objections to the programmes.