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The Sustainable Economy

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  • SRI
    The equity markets have ploughed nine times more capital into fossil fuels than green energy in the past decade, and lost $120bn as a result. The tide is turning, but the amounts going into clean power are still pitifully small compared with the needs, according to research by Carbon Tracker this week.
  • A study of 657,000 UK mortgages undertaken by Nationwide Building Society over the past year suggests that the greener building a mortgage is secured on, the lower the risk of default. Moreover, this relationship is not affected by a borrower’s wealth, the location, or the type of property.
  • The environmental, social and governance (ESG) agenda finally arrived in equity capital markets in 2020 with a flurry of activity across IPOs and convertible bonds.
  • ABS
    Residential Property Assessed Clean Energy lender Renew Financial is returning to the ABS market after a two year hiatus, adding volume to a sector that continues to shrink owing to regulatory headwinds and a preference for private placements.
  • Germany's IPO renaissance is continuing with the flotation of Freidrich Vorwerk, the energy infrastructure construction company, which is due to price later today.
  • An innovative collaboration between six organisations from different sectors has led to the creation of the Subnational Climate Finance Initiative, which will work with local governments in developing countries to fund green infrastructure. The scheme highlights the value — but also the difficulty — of blended finance.