Investment
Bank of England to scrutinise insurance firms' climate risk planning
UK insurers will be called upon next month by the Prudential Market Authority to stress test their business against a range of climate and transition risks
Steady investments in a changing climate
Environment Agency chair Emma Howard Boyd's speech at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development - in full
Tesla's 'game of pennies' is all of us (in clean tech)
Love Musk or hate him, the attention on his struggles makes public the problems that most in clean tech face
Carbon capture: Shell, BP, Tata Steel, and Drax join £1m UK advisory group
The CCUS Advisory Group, backed by £1m of funding, includes representatives from Shell, BP, Tata Steel, Drax, and National Grid
BP has 'dramatically reduced' oil and gas exploration, executive claims
Dominic Emery, VP for strategic planning at BP, suggests sizeable chunk of firm's existing oil and gas resources could remain in the ground as it invests in new business models
UBS announces coal financing ban and boosts green investments
Banking giant on track to double penetration of sustainable investments by 2020
How BNP Paribas plans to align its €399bn asset portfolio with a 2C world
BNP Paribas AM BNP Paribas AM's global sustainability strategy provides a signal of how the economy could be set to evolve over the coming years
BNP Paribas AM unveils roadmap to deliver Paris-aligned investment portfolio by 2025
Asset manager's enhanced sustainability strategy sets out how it plans to engage with companies on climate change in the coming years
Neuberger Berman overhauls climate risk analysis
Investor says it is implementing the main recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure
Innogy steps up clean tech investment amid 'turbulent year'
German energy giant hails investment in cleantech start-ups, but laments challenging year as earnings slip amid 'unusually low' wind levels
Oil major Eni sets out €3bn 'net zero' carbon emissions plan
Italian oil major to invest in major forestry projects in Africa and scale up renewables capacity, but still plans to increase fossil fuel production
Green Bank Design Summit: Developing nations join forces to explore green bank plans
Officials from two dozen countries that are together responsible for 43 per cent of global carbon emissions are to attend a Paris Summit designed to accelerate green finance flows
Why not spend a little more?
Building a green economy will cost money, so where do we start? asks the New Economics Foundation's David Powell
Shell sets out first details of time-bound climate targets
Oil giant reveals first short-term emissions target, to cut company's net carbon footprint by 2-3 per cent by 2021
'Increasingly uncompetitive': BNP Paribas AM tightens coal investment policy
French bank's tighter exclusions on firms engaged in thermal coal mining and coal-fired power generation to come into effect from 2020
Regulators to explore removing 'barriers' to addressing 'unprecedented' climate risk
Climate Financial Risk Forum meets for the first time to help finance firms deal with climate threat
UN: Countries set to overshoot goals on curbing chemicals pollution
Hazardous chemicals are now 'ubiquitous' in air, water, soil, food and humans, UN declares
'Reasonable and forward-looking': Norway's $1tr fund to ditch oil and gas stocks
BREAKING: World's largest sovereign wealth fund to divest from oil and gas exploration and production companies, in monumental landmark for the shift to a greener global energy system
BusinessGreen Leaders Awards: One week to entry deadline
BusinessGreen announces Wilderness Foundation UK is the charity partner for this year's BusinessGreen Leaders Awards
How Etsy is tackling e-commerce emissions
The eCommerce player is buying carbon offsets to balance the impact of shipping while advocating for long-term solutions
Blowing in the wind: Is the new sector deal a realistic plan for UK offshore wind?
Prospect's Sue Ferns welcomes the government's new Offshore Wind Sector Deal, but warns some key challenges for the industry remain unaddressed
UN aviation body agrees to close carbon emissions loophole
Rules to avoid double-counting of emissions cuts are a step forward, say campaigners, but more assurances are needed to meet the sector's climate promises
Pearson targets SDG4 with $1.19bn sustainable loan
Education giant will be rewarded with lower interest rates if it can get more children studying
Offshore Wind Sector Deal: 'Green collar jobs' set to more than triple by 2030
Government to announce new goal to drastically expand offshore wind employment and ensure at least a third of new jobs are taken by women
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