News

• Aquaculture fund targets sustainable Brazilian fishery

  04 October 2019

  Netherlands-based aquaculture investor Aqua-Spark has invested an undisclosed amount in Fisher Piscicultura, a Brazilian Tilapia fish farm.

• Singapore REIT secures S$200m green loan

  04 October 2019

  Singapore-based Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) CapitaLand Mall Trust (CMT) has secured a S$200 million ($144.8 million) five-year green loan from OCBC Bank.

• Glennmont exits UK wind with sale to Foresight

  04 October 2019

  Glennmont Partners has fully divested its portfolio from UK and Irish wind assets, following the sale of two wind farms, with 37.5MW of combined capacity, to fellow UK asset manager Foresight.

• Pennsylvania set to join RGGI

  04 October 2019

  The US state of Pennsylvania, one of the US’s largest coal and natural gas producers, has agreed to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).

• Green Investment Group plots future in green advisory services

  03 October 2019

  The Macquarie-owned Green Investment Group (GIG) has signalled its intention to increasingly muscle in on the ‘green advisory’ services market, amid the accelerating growth of the green bond market.

• CA100+ targets lobbying, implementing TCFD and net zero emissions

  03 October 2019

  Climate Action (CA) 100+ has set out its engagement priorities, over the coming months, in its first initiative progress report for 161 'focus companies'.

• European insurers spell out ESG investing moves in detail

  03 October 2019

  Europe’s insurers have used regulatory filings to provide detail about how they are transforming their investment processes to encompass environmental, social and governance (ESG) precepts.

• $150m green bond for oil tanker fleet in pipeline

  02 October 2019

  Teekay Shuttle Tankers, a Canadian shipowner specialising in oil and gas transportation is looking to issue a $150 million green bond to fund the building of new tankers.

• Bonds round-up: Raiffeisen Bank, NWB, Mitsubishi UFJ, European Energy ... and more

  02 October 2019

  Raiffeisen Bank raises €750m from second green bond issue

• Norway’s oil fund to dump $5.9bn of equities in oil stocks

  02 October 2019

  Norway’s $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund is to “gradually phase out” about NOK54 billion ($5.9 billion) worth of stocks in crude oil producers, the country’s Ministry of Finance said.