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Green Savings Bond: What Is It and Where Does the Money Go?

At the March 2021 Budget the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, announced the creation of a Green Savings Bond. This savings product would be available to UK savers via NS&I (National Savings and Investment), the same organisation which offers Premium Bonds, and whose proceeds will be used to support green investment in the…

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Green Finance News Round Up: 30th September – 4th October 2019

4th October 2019 Focus on UK green investment and finance news this week. First up new rules come into force for UK pension trustees to outline their approach to engagement with and voting in respect to companies in which they invest, as well as disclosing how they take account of ESG and climate factors. Furthermore,…

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Green Finance News Round Up: 23rd-27th September 2019

27th September 2019 Top Stories The story which will have the biggest impact this week on the Green Finance industry was the delay to the implementation of the EU’s standards on sustainable finance, which are aimed at qualifying what is ‘green’. Sticking with European Institutions, a paper has been released by the ECB and EBRD (Ralph…

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Green Finance News Round Up: 16th-20th September 2019

22nd September 2019 Top Stories On the world stage, this Friday’s Global Climate Strike was one of the biggest green finance and ESG investment news stories of the week, with news outlets were keen to forecast this event as an insight into future demand for sustainable investment products [1, 2]. In the run up to…

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News Round Up: 26th-30th August 2019

30th August 2019 Top Stories and Themes of the Week This week a run of articles were published from several outlets on ESG investment performance outpacing traditional investments. Also there was news relating to two investments featured on this site namely BBOXX (Green Bonds via Energize Africa) and the renewables focus investment trust, JLEN Environmental…

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News Round Up: 19th-23rd August 2019

Top Articles General articles commenting on the role of Green Finance appeared in several larger news outlets this week – BBC, Evening Standard. Further debate on this topic was fuelled by the influential Business Roundtable’s latest statement on corporate governance and the increased importance of CSR (at the expense of shareholder primacy). Two interviews also…