News

• GIG to assess carbon impact of 40,000 renewable assets

  02 October 2019

  Macquarie's Green Investment Group (GIG) has partnered with Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) to assess the positive carbon impact of over 40,000 wind and solar assets.

• UK introduction of ESG disclosure rules for pensions is ‘key milestone’

  02 October 2019

  The introduction of rules that require UK pension schemes to set out how they consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in their investment strategy has been billed as an industry landmark.

• Voting opens for Environmental Finance's 20th Annual Market Rankings

  02 October 2019

  Voting has begun in Environmental Finance's Annual Market Rankings (LINK) – the largest and most closely watched survey of the world's environmental markets, which is now in its 20th year.

• TEG expects ‘massive domino effect’ of ESG benchmark disclosures

  01 October 2019

  A prominent member of the Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (TEG) has predicted that recommendations for minimum disclosure requirements for most investment indexes “will have a massive domino effect” on companies publishing environmental, social and governance (ESG) information.

• Sovereign wealth funds and central banks increasingly integrating ESG policies

  01 October 2019

  The number of sovereign wealth funds with specific environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies has increased in the last two years, according to a report by Invesco.

• Eiopa sets expectations on insurers to take climate action

  01 October 2019

  Opinion on sustainability in Solvency II acknowledges challenges to integrating climate change risk

• Innergex raises $125m from convertible debentures

  01 October 2019

  Canadian renewable energy group Innergex has raised $125 million from an issue of convertible unsecured debentures.

• EU carbon market update, 30 September

  30 September 2019

  Further weakness in EU Allowance prices could see them test technical support levels just below €25, as they did last week, says Louis Redshaw.

• WFE & SSE define 'how exchanges can embed sustainability'

  30 September 2019

  The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) and the UN's Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative have come together to try and define how the world's exchanges can embed sustainability in their operations.

• WCI Carbon Market Update, 30 September 2019

  30 September 2019

  CCAs recovered some of their recent losses last week and the activity of financial participants remains key to future price moves, says Nicolas Girod*.