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KBI launches new infrastructure-focused strategy
08 November 2017KBI Global Investors has launched a new strategy focusing on publicly traded companies active in sustainable infranstructure.
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HSBC expects up to $180bn of green bonds in 2018
08 November 2017HSBC predicts green bond supply to reach as much as $180 billion next year, up from the bank's projected sum of $125 billion for 2017.
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Green Investment Group and GE make €800m Swedish onshore wind investment
08 November 2017GE and the Green Investment Group (GIG) have partnered to build a 650MW wind farm in Sweden, the largest onshore wind development in Europe.
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Mapfre buys 25% stake in ESG investment boutique
08 November 2017Spanish insurer Mapfre has bought a 25% stake in La Financière Responsable (LFR) to better integrate environmental, social and governmental (ESG) factors in its investments.
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HSBC commits $100bn to fight climate change by 2025
07 November 2017 -
Equator Principles to get first overhaul since 2013
07 November 2017The Equator Principles will be updated to align with the aims of the Paris Agreement and recommendations of the FSB's Task-Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), it has been revealed.
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GCF expects disbursements to reach $900m in 2018
07 November 2017The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is projecting a sharp increase of its disbursements for 2018, an implication that a number of projects currently in the pipeline will be implemented.
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Companies becoming big spenders on water security
07 November 2017Big corporates are investing in water security at record levels while some of them are starting to adopt internal water pricing policies, a report has found.
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EU carbon market weekly update - 06 November 2017
06 November 2017A positive outcome from Wednesday's trilogue meeting could result in lower EU Allowance (EUA) prices if speculators 'sell the fact after 'buying the rumour'', says Louis Redshaw.
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€500m Barclays green bond marks first for UK market
06 November 2017UK-based bank Barclays plans to issue a €500 million ($579 million) green bond this month, making it the first of the country's banks to enter the market.
- Working group to develop ESG ratings, data products code of conduct for Hong Kong
- BNP Paribas to halt participation in oil and gas conventional bond issuance
- Barclays sees improvements in SLB structuring
- EU ESG funds told to prove their sustainable investment claims under new rules
- UK regulator likely to require bank, insurer transition plan disclosure, Crowe predicts
- Corporates hope to stop reporting 'legacy' ESG data points
- New York State pension fund looks to ramp up climate investments
- Japan to study 'financed emissions' in second climate scenario analysis of banks
- G20 needs to step up on biodiversity and back TNFD, says GFANZ's Ravenel
- Record orderbook as Italy raises €9bn from new green bond