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Del Monte Foods, Others Join KKR’s Green Portfolio Program
Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis and Roberts is adding seven of its portfolio companies, including Del Monte Foods, healthcare products firm Capsugel and telecommunications firm ...
Financing Goes ‘Green’
Energy prices and consumption seem to be on an upward trajectory. In fact, energy costs have steadily risen over the last decade and ...
Investor Coalition Pushes Shale Gas Industry to Clean Up Fracking
A coalition of 55 investment firms and institutional investors is urging the shale gas industry to adopt best practices to clean up hydraulic fracturing, a ...
Toshiba to Rebuild Thailand Chip Factory Hit By Floods
Toshiba Corp. said it will build a semiconductor manufacturing factory in Thailand to replace the one inundated by last ...
Wells Fargo Targets 35% GHG Cut, $30bn in Green Investments
Wells Fargo is targeting a 40 percent increase in its energy efficiency, 35 percent cut to absolute greenhouse gas emissions, and $30 billion in ...
Market Perspectives from the LP-GP Clean Energy & Sustainability Forum
The most active investors in the cleantech, renewable energy and sustainability sectors share their views on the market at the fourth ...
Clean Energy Records Lowest Quarter of Investment Since 2009
After clocking up a record in 2011, new financial investment in clean energy in Q1 2012 was the weakest since the depths of the financial ...
RBS Reveals Environmental Goals, Aims to Cut £200m by 2020
Royal Bank of Scotland has revealed environmental goals that it hopes will cut £200 million ($318 million) from its costs by 2020. This is the ...
Global Carbon Markets Plummet
The value of the world's carbon markets declined by 21 percent over the last quarter, despite trading volumes above the historical average, according to analysis ...
A Look at the Outperformance of the Carbon Efficient Index
Here, Michael Orzano, associate director of Global Equity Indices, and Alka Banerjee, vice president of Global Equity & Strategy Indices for S&P Indices, ...
Shareholder Interest in Triple Bottom Line ‘Increasing’
Investor attention to the "triple bottom line" of environmental, social and economic performance is growing and raising support levels for shareholder resolutions on environmental and ...
Institute Ends College Sustainability Report Card
The Sustainable Endowments Institute has announced that it is suspending publication of its College Sustainability Report Card.
The report card pioneered the first evaluations of campus ...
Deloitte Outlines Process for Choosing Environmental Metrics
Public and private companies are finding it a major challenge to determine what environmental, social and governance (ESG) information to disclose, according to a new ...
Less than Half of UK Businesses Plan for Climate Change Adaptation, CDP Finds
More than 80 percent of U.K. businesses say climate change is a substantial risk to them, citing a range of risk factors including change in ...
Financing the New Age of Electricity
The world's energy demands continue to rise at a time when there is a growing need to reduce carbon emissions and protect the ...
Sustainability Boosts Returns for Private Equity Funds
Part III: The Fine Print of ESG Underwriting
In the second installment of this series, we highlighted how private equity fund ...
Scotiabank Sustainability Report: Emissions Rise, Energy Consumption Drops
Scotiabank's Canada-based energy consumption dropped one percent from 2010 to 2011, but its greenhouse gas emissions rose just shy of 1.5 percent over the same ...
Experts Explore the Payoffs of Investing in Sustainability
In 2012, investors may want to bet on "green."
"Companies that actively manage environmental risks - and take advantage of associated opportunities - increasingly ...
Private Equity to Increase Attention to Environment, PwC Says
Some 94 percent of private equity houses expect environmental, social and governance issues to become more important to their business in the next five years, ...
FTSE Launches Four Carbon Indexes
The FTSE Group and its partners, the nonprofit Carbon Disclosure Project and benchmarking specialist ENDS Carbon, have launched four carbon-related indexes designed to help investors ...
