Green investment

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Analysis

How investment funds can drive the green transition

Sustainable investment funds need to be scaled up to support a successful transition to a green economy

Activists of the environmental organisation Greenpeace project a slogan that reads "No Future in Fossil Fuels", on the cooling tower of RWE coal power plant, one of Europe's biggest electricity companies in Neurath, north-west of Cologne, Germany, November 10, 2017. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
Global Economy

Green investments to be part of EU budget rules review: Dombrovskis

European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium May 5, 2021. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo/File Photo
Global Economy

EU to mull changes to budget rules, debt, green investment in focus

A plant grows between cracked mud in a normally submerged area at Theewaterskloof dam near Cape Town, South Africa, January 21, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings/File Photo
Analysis

UN climate report increases urgency for green investment funds

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends his annual end-of-year news conference, held online in a video conference mode, at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia December 17, 2020. Sputnik/Alexei Nikolsky/Kremlin via REUTERS
Environment

Putin, at climate summit, floats foreign investment incentives on clean energy

European Union flags fly outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium September 19, 2019/ Reuters
Global Economy

EU publishes rulebook to classify 'green' investments

FILE PHOTO: A night view shows France's oldest Electricite de France (EDF) nuclear power plant and the Grand Canal d'Alsace near the eastern French village of Fessenheim, France February 20, 2020. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann
World+Biz

EU experts to decide nuclear power qualifies for green investment label: document

Al-Arafah Islami Bank Ltd signed agreement for availing of Green Transformation Fund with Bangladesh Bank on Tuesday. Photo: Courtesy
Bangladesh

Al-Arafah Islami Bank signs Green Transformation Fund agreement with Bangladesh Bank

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Global Economy

Responsible finance bets on green future

French Minister for Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy Segolene Royal (L) and Finance Minister Michel Sapin attend a news conference to introduce France's first state green bond in Paris, France, January 3, 2017/ Reuters
Global Economy

EU, China and others team up to coordinate 'green' investment

Power-generating windmill turbines are pictured during sunset at a wind park in Campeneac, France, September 3, 2019/ Reuters
World+Biz

Investing green is all the rage, but benchmarks still hazy