News

• BlackRock and Amundi to benefit if coronavirus accelerates ESG trends

  12 May 2020

  If the coronavirus pandemic boosts environmental, social and governance (ESG) trends from investors, BlackRock and Amundi screen highly as stocks positioned to benefit.

• Canadian firms must file TCFD reports to get Covid-19 bailout

  12 May 2020

  Canada has made reporting climate risks a condition of receiving its Covid-19 bailout funding.

• Welcome to Impact

  12 May 2020

  A new section of the Environmental Finance website has been launched to host the best of our coverage of the rapidly growing impact investing market.

  

• GIG and RIDG partner for Scottish offshore wind bid

  12 May 2020

  The Green Investment Group (GIG) and Renewable Infrastructure Development Group (RIDG) have announced they will partner to bid in the forthcoming offshore wind leasing round in Scotland.

• EU carbon market update: 11 May 2020

  11 May 2020

  This week's larger auction volume will potentially be offset by the partial easing of lockdown measures across Europe, but the risk to EU Allowances is on the downside, says Tom Lord*.

• WCI Carbon Market Update, 11 May 2020

  11 May 2020

  The easing of pandemic-related restrictions in California and Quebec are buoying CCA prices, but further upside could be limited by the auction floor price, says Nicolas Girod*.

• Citigroup claims more than $100bn in environmental finance since 2014

  11 May 2020

  Banking giant Citigroup said it has funded or facilitated more than $164 billion of activities to combat climate change since 2014.

• BlueOrchard, Schroders developing microfinance relief fund

  11 May 2020

  Impact investor BlueOrchard and Schroders are developing a blended finance fund that will target Covid-19 relief efforts for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in emerging markets.

• PRA postpones UK climate and insurance stress tests

  11 May 2020

  The UK's Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has paused further work on its climate and insurance stress tests to allow firms to tackle the other pressures they face due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

• Oil majors accused of using CA100+ as 'fig leaf' to disguise inaction

  11 May 2020

  Oil supermajors have been accused of using joint statements with investor initiative Climate Action 100+ (CA100+) as a means to disguise limited action on emissions reductions.