News

• First-of-its-kind 'climate-smart' food security fund launched

  22 November 2016

  Environmental investment advisor Clarmondial, corporate financial advisor Duff & Phelps and Swiss fund management services provider Pictet Asset Services have partnered to launch a first-of-its-kind 'climate-smart' food security fund.

• Danske Bank develops price differentiation for green loan

  21 November 2016

  Danske Bank has extended its first green loan with 'improved terms' to a real estate client, Fabege, because it is financing green buildings which it believes have a lower level of risk.

• NextEnergy raises £115.3m through oversubscribed share issuance

  21 November 2016

  UK yieldco NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF) has raised £115.3 million ($142.3 million) through the issuance of 110.3 million ordinary shares, exceeding its original target of 100 million shares.

• Companies take $14bn hit from water problems in 2016, CDP finds

  18 November 2016

  The value of water-related financial impacts borne by companies soared to $14 billion last year, up from $2.6 billion the previous year.

• People Moves - Kommuninvest, PRI, GIB, Bluesource, South Pole, Impax

  18 November 2016

  Swedish public sector lender Kommuninvest has appointed senior investor relations manager Bjorn Bergstrand as its head of sustainability.

• EF BRIEFS: Swedish real estate green bond; Greencoat equity raise

  18 November 2016

  A Swedish real estate firm has returned to the green bond market with its third and largest offering, raising SEK700 million ($76 million).

• S&P green bond evaluation tool to launch 'early next year'

  18 November 2016

  S&P Global Ratings, formerly known as Standard & Poor's, will launch its green bond evaluation tool early next year, after beefing up its methodology for adaptation technologies, Environmental Finance can reveal.

• Carbon needs to decline by 2020 to meet Paris target, says IEA

  17 November 2016

  Carbon emissions from the energy sector need to peak and start to decline by 2020 to stick to the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global temperature increase to 2°, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

• Most investors lack understanding of ESG impact, says RBC GAM

  17 November 2016

  The financial impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors is not understood by most investors, according to RBC Global Asset Management (GAM).

• Morocco's sovereign wealth fund and World Bank launch Green Africa Fund

  17 November 2016

  Ithmar Capital, Morocco's sovereign wealth fund, and the World Bank have signed an agreement to launch what they claim is the first pan-African green investment fund.