Global Renewable News

OCTOBER 22, 2023

The EIB and Hungary's Development Bank MFB signed a 100 million financing agreement to support energy efficiency investments and renewable energy projects. The operation highlights EIB's commi.

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ESG Today

JULY 20, 2022

Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG) announced today a series of new appointments to its regional leadership team, including William Demas as Head of Americas, in New York, Edward Northam as Head of APAC, and Chris Archer and Sam Newman as co-Heads of GIG in EMEA.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 12, 2023

There are many causes of inflation, but there’s only one solution central banks seem willing to consider: increase interest rates. And won’t it make essential green investments more difficult? s $3-trillion GDP economy with the explicit purpose of sustaining aggregate demand, and the Bank of Canada did likewise.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The Platform on Sustainable Finance (PSF), an expert group mandated by the European Commission to advise it on the development of sustainable finance policies, announced today the publication of a new report with comprehensive recommendations aimed at simplifying the EU Taxonomy.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

When I led Canada’s Social Investment Organization (SIO) in the early 2000s, one of our most important debates concerned the question of whether the organization should develop an industry-wide label for socially responsible investment, as sustainable investing was called back then.

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Global Renewable News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

By Nibal.

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Global Renewable News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

By Anton UsovHighlights EBRD lends US$ 10 million to Hamkorbank New loan under GEFF Uzbekistan II to support green lending Support from Climate Investment Funds and EBRD donors.

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Global Renewable News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

By Anton UsovTajikistan is vulnerable to the effects of climate change EBRD and GCF launch US$ 50 million Green Economy Financing Facility Tajikistan II New GEFF to promote ener.

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Global Renewable News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

By Nibal Zgheib Highlights .

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Global Renewable News

MAY 26, 2022

By Altynai.

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Global Renewable News

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

By Nibal.

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Global Renewable News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

By Nibal Zgheib Highlights .

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Global Renewable News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

By Anton Usov Highlights EBR.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2024

“Now we can measure this green business exposure for the majority of companies and are able to count annual green investments that run into the trillions, growing six times faster than the economy at large,” Heaps says. C, SBTi 6 15 Banco do Brasil SA Brasília, Brazil Banks $ 1,106,800 17% 9:1 50% 29% 0% A- 1.5°C,

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Together, a combined green and transition taxonomy can support a holistic approach to achieve a low-carbon transition. For example, green and transition taxonomies can be used to structure credit rates and timelines for clean-technology investment tax credits and help define eligibility for green public procurement of goods and services.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Around 90% of EU banks are exposed to climate transition risks, recent analysis from the ECB shows. Banks globally are increasingly feeling two-pronged pressure from regulators and investors to up their climate ambition and stop financing fossil fuels.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 3, 2025

We need to treat these developments as a call to action. RELATED Canadian investors stand firm on ESG despite greenhushing trend, report finds The anti-DEI movement confronts an unlikely opponent: big banks Meet the four most sustainable funds on the market for 2025 Deadlines to submit reports starting in 2026 will be pushed back to 2028.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

ImpactAlpha, September 24 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development provides investment capital and advisory support on development initiatives across the Middle East, Southern and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

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Cisco CSR

DECEMBER 13, 2022

FIs are in a position to help build and accelerate sustainable development. According to Capgemini , nearly a third of consumers are willing to pay an additional charge for green banking products and services or shift to a new provider for environmentally and socially friendly products. .

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

With the looming Paris Agreement goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 43% by 2030, nations are adopting different approaches to stimulating their green economy and encouraging sustainable investment. The UK, meanwhile, is trailing behind in terms of green investment.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 7, 2024

HSBC Asset Management and World Bank Group member the International Finance Corporation (IFC) announced an agreement to launch a new fund targeting SDG-aligned corporate bond issuers in emerging markets.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The newly launched international initiative Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures is developing a risk management and disclosure framework for organizations to report and act on evolving nature-related financial risks. But impact investments remain very small relative to other responsible investment strategies.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Bertrand Cousin, Head of Corporate and Investment Banking at La Banque Postale, said: “This initiative is part of our strategy to promote impact finance and is in line with the commitments made by La Banque Postale with regard to the objectives of a mission-led company.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Per the European Investment Bank Group , the circular economy, thanks to technological innovation, would increase global resource productivity by 3%. Last year, China released the Development Plan for the Circular Economy which covers the period of 2021-25. Per MarketStudyReport , the global circular economy is set to grow by 7.8%

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Corporate Knights does not consider new nuclear power projects to be “green” in its Sustainable Economy Taxonomy. In its fall fiscal update, the federal government introduced an investment tax credit of up to 30% for clean energy technologies, including SMRs. A bad day to go nuclear.

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JUNE 24, 2019

Minister: We have many different ways that we flow money to clean tech whether it’s from SDTC [ Sustainable Development Technology Canada ], EDC [ Export Development Canada ], BDC [ Business Development Bank of Canada ]. Historic investments are gone. What’s been spent on clean tech? .

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Negligible impact on SDGs – The need to close a massive financing gap to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is well established. Observers welcomed the changes signalled at last year’s World Bank-International Monetary Fund annual meetings in Marrakesh , which were backed up with initiatives unveiled at COP28 in December.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 29, 2021

Clearly the green finance revolution has taken the world by storm, with investment in low-carbon energy remaining robust throughout the pandemic. As the world begins to recover and rebuild, there is the danger that developing nations may be left behind. As always, education will be vital.

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3BL Media

MAY 17, 2022

We have limited time to transform investment patterns and capital allocation to avoid crossing tipping points that could lead to a hothouse earth. As the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD ) has shown, changes within financial institutions – such as climate mainstreaming in investment processes – can be slow.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In fact, 41 out of the 47 taxonomies currently under development have either stated outright or implied that they aim for their respective taxonomies to be used to guide policymakers and authorities, or they are in the early stages of development and have yet to make such an intention clear.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The finance should be predominantly met from the private sector with the Treasury pump-priming £5bn via a Net Zero Development Bank.[1]. 100 billion green investment. Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, said: “I have been clear that a strong economic recovery and a green recovery are not mutually exclusive but one and the same.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Developed by a coalition of industry, governments, multilateral and financial institutions and civil society organizations, the certification scheme aims to build trust and promote transparency in the hydropower sector. The Hydropower Sustainability Standard was launched Sept.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The taskforce will explore collaboration in areas such as standards and definitions, green and transition financing solutions, data and technology enablers to catalyse green financing flows. “The

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 18, 2024

However, green bond issuances are often associated with investment-grade issuers of relatively low credit risk: developed countries, development banks, large financial institutions and corporates (they are often more likely to have the resources to develop a green bond framework and execute a portfolio of green assets).

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2024

China falls behind Greenwashing has emerged as a major problem in developed countries over the last decade with the rise of ESG-labelled funds. While China has been far behind more developed markets on this issue, it is slowly improving, Greenpeace said. But its provisions are voluntary and impose no quantitative standards on managers.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Novel energy storage concept developer Gravitricity picked up the award for Best Innovation. Best Community Project Award, sponsored by Scottish National Investment Bank: Bespoke Community Development Company for Greencraig Community Wind Turbine. in community benefit payments.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 29, 2023

The world cannot win the fight against climate change without China successfully transitioning to a low-carbon economy, with it accounting for 27% of global carbon dioxide and a third of the world’s greenhouse gases, according to the World Bank. It has also provided insurance for 415 projects worth RMB 340.1

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