News

• European investors see IPO markets opening

  11 March 2010

  Most European investors expect to see an increasing number of clean technology companies floated over the next 18 months, according to a survey by investor communications firm Carbon International.

• Intervention in EU ETS needed to spur investment – MP

  11 March 2010

  EU governments should intervene in the bloc's flagship emissions trading scheme (ETS) to drive prices high enough to spur low-carbon investments, said a UK Member of Parliament (MP).

• Pension funds to study climate impacts on assets

  11 March 2010

  Concerned that climate change will impact their long-term returns, 14 institutional investors and consultancy Mercer are to research how different climate scenarios could affect their assets.

• IBM earns energy efficiency certificates from server upgrade

  11 March 2010

  Technology giant IBM has become the first company to register energy efficiency certificates (EECs) on an APX registry, following improvements to a data centre in Canada.

• March issue of Carbon Finance out now

  11 March 2010

  The March issue of Carbon Finance is now available, including a look at where next for international climate change negotiations following a disappointing meeting in Copenhagen in December and the resignation of UN climate chief Yvo de Boer.

• Senators demand US suspends renewables grant programme

  04 March 2010

  US senators have asked the Obama administration to suspend a successful grant programme for renewable energy projects because the vast majority of its funds are going to foreign companies.

• MSCI to acquire RiskMetrics

  04 March 2010

  RiskMetrics, the New York-based risk advisory company which has been on a buying spree of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment research firms, is itself to be taken over.

• Shareholders target climate laggards in proxy season

  04 March 2010

  Activist shareholders are turning up the heat on US and Canadian companies to disclose climate change-related risks and opportunities, an effort that is expected to intensify further with new disclosure guidance from US regulators.

• EU greening funds insufficient and unspent, NGOs warn

  04 March 2010

  Most EU funding for renewables and energy efficiency in central and eastern Europe has not yet been spent, a report by Friends of the Earth Europe and Bankwatch has revealed.

• Bankers call on EU to back green standards and investment

  04 March 2010

  The EU should lead a global effort to develop green banking standards, said Blaise Desbordes, director of sustainable development at Caisse de Dépôts, a French public investment bank, at a conference in Brussels this week.