Investment
Asset managers with portfolios worth $9tr target net zero portfolios by 2050
Net Zero Asset Manager initiative commits firms to setting interim 2030 goals in line with achieving net zero portfolios by 2050 or sooner
Macquarie Asset Management sets sights on net zero portfolio by 2040
Australian banking giant becomes latest major investor to announce plans to decarbonise its portfolio
Amazon stakes claim as 'world's largest' corporate clean power buyer with 3.4GW blitz
Tech giant strikes mammoth package of wind and solar offtake deals including from 129MW South Lanarkshire wind project under development in Scotland
Why the Carney Taskforce on carbon offsetting misses the mark
The drive led by the former Bank of England Governor to establish a global carbon offset market lacks emphasis on how offset quality will be defined, argues Eli Mitchell-Larson of the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School
BloombergNEF: Clean energy investment in emerging economies sputters during Covid-19 following record year
Despite securing a record $432bn of foreign investment in 2019, clean energy projects in emerging markets have suffered a ‘rough 2020’ as investors’ turned to less risky markets, analyst warns
Green financiers plot wave of zero carbon heating offers
New report from Green Finance Institute identifies barriers to investment in green heating systems and trails series of new demonstration projects
Aviva Investors pledges to provide £1bn of sustainability-linked loans for property sector by 2025
Asset manager touts new 'climate transition' lending programme for the real estate sector, as it simultaneously launches framework for best-practice for sustainability-linked loans for building sector
'A List': Number of businesses securing CDP's top ranking surges by 50 per cent
Corporate climate disclosure accelerates across private sector in line with increasing investor expectations during year dominated by pandemic, according to ratings agency
Net zero for banks is climate science not rocket science
Until British banks rule out all fossil fuel funding, their climate plans will remain inadequate, argues Market Forces' campaigner Adam McGibbon
Disrupting in a time of disruption: What challenges and opportunities await clean tech start-ups in 2021?
UK's top clean tech investors and entrepreneurs last week discussed the future of clean tech innovation at the first virtual edition of BusinessGreen Technology and Investment Forum, hosted in association with InnovateUK
Three ways Biden can drive clean energy with financial policy
Congress is likely to block any climate legislation the Biden administration pursues, but other courses of action are available
WSP swoops for rival environmental consultancy Golder in $1.1bn deal
Major acquisition aims to create 'leading global environmental consultancy' to capitalise on 'rapidly growing ESG trends'
Legal & General pledges to half portfolio carbon emission intensity by 2030
Goal part of a raft of measures outlined in the pension giant's new ESG policy
Last chance to register for the BusinessGreen Technology and Investment Forum 2020
Register now for tomorrow's event to hear from some of the UK's top clean tech investors and entrepreneurs
'Aladdin Climate': BlackRock debuts new climate risk software platform for clients
World's largest investor launches software platform that allows clients to stress test investments against different warming scenarios, as company reveals climate risk is now clients' number one concern
Asset management industry's responsible investment claims do not match its voting record
BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street branded 'crucial laggards' in latest ShareAction report
Positive tipping points to net zero and how to finance them
The finance sector has the means, and the scientists have the data, to model interventions with much greater impact than we see today, explain Federated Hermes' Eoin Murray, and Tim Lenton from the Global Systems Institute
Third Derivative: Blue chips team up to launch climate tech accelerator
Rocky Mountain Institute and New Energy Nexus launch climate technology accelerator launches to help fledgling companies scale, attract investment, and forge partnerships, with backing from some of the world's largest corporates
BlueTrack: Barclays debuts new dashboard to track progress towards net zero portfolio
But campaigners warn new strategy does not move fast enough to end financing for fossil fuel infrastructure
Nine community-led climate projects scoop National Lottery funding
Schemes in Glasgow, London, Nottingham and Yorkshire are among projects to snap up awards in the range of £151,000 to £1.5m in second round of National Lottery’s Climate Action Fund.
Why business needs to see an ambitious NDC
ScottishPower's Keith Anderson argues that the growing band of businesses and investors committed to accelerating the net zero transition need the government to submit a suitably ambitious national climate action plan to the UN
How climate change might affect investment returns
VIDEO: What Schroders' analysis tell us about global warming and investments?
DNV: Current climate policies inadequate to solve emissions crisis
Norwegian environmental auditing giant DNV argues more radical climate action is needed across five key strategic areas in a new report published today
EU watchdog slams Commission for appointing BlackRock as ESG finance advisor
European Ombudsman calls on EU to update its conflict of interest guidelines for procurement contracts following its decision to hire a business division of world's leading fossil fuel financier to develop ESG banking regulation study
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