Finance

Rain forrest and creek
Friends of the Earth urges REDD to be focused on effective forest conservation
CleanBiz.Asia Staff
December 09, 2010
The outline agreement on REDD (Reducing Emissions for Deforestation and Degradation) reached at last year's Cancún COP 16 conference don't ensure forest conservation and look at forests only as carbon storage, according to Friends of the Earth International (FOEI).
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China Wind Farm
China expanding wind farm capacity with flurry of new mega-deals
CleanBiz.Asia Staff
December 08, 2010
China Ming Yang Wind Power Group Limited (Ming Yang) announced on December 7, 2010 that it had won its bid for a total of 200MW of its 3MW wind turbine generators for a project in the Hami area of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
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Climatewise responding to challenge insurance report
Insurers’ support for developing countries crucial to global progress on climate change
December 01, 2010
Developing countries could become uninsurable unless insurers step up their action on climate change, according to a paper from Forum for the Future commissioned by the industry group ClimateWise - a global collaboration of more than 40 leading insurers focused on reducing the risks of climate change.
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Climate Finance Options Website
World Bank and UN launch website to help developing countries access green funding
CleanBiz.Asia Staff
December 01, 2010
To help developing countries make sense of the multitude of funds and instruments available for climate finance a landmark website, www.climatefinanceoptions.org, was launched at the recent United Nations Cancún climate change summit.
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Julia Gillard
Australia PM promises to pass climate bill with carbon price in 2011
CleanBiz.Asia Staff
November 29, 2010
Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard has said she is determined to put a price on carbon, declaring 2011 the year in which long-awaited climate change legislation would finally pass.
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Shenzhen CO2 market progress and Hong Kong opportunities
Shenzhen CO2 market progress and Hong Kong opportunities
February 04, 2013
Speaking on a panel at the CleanBiz.Asia forum on China's emerging carbon market Ge Xing'an, vice president of the China Shenzhen Emissions Exchange, gave an overview of developments across the border from Hong Kong and his view of how the two cities can collaborate on market-based climate change mitigation.
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Malaysia's green financing scheme accelerating
Malaysia's minister for Energy, Green Technology and Water Peter Chin Fah Kui has said that the country's green loan project has disbursed MYR250 million (USD88.8 million) and the scheme was gathering momentum.
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ESG on the move in Hong Kong and China
ESG on the move in Hong Kong and China
August 27, 2012
Coinciding with up on the announcement of the 2012 Hang Seng Corporate Sustainability Index constituents, research and advisory firm RepuTex released Asia On The Move, its annual review covering  the ESG performance of 636 Hong Kong and Chinese A-listed companies by market and research category.  CleanBiz Asia executive editor Fergus O’Rorke caught up with Reputex ESG research Martha Grossman and asked her about how she sees the corporate sustainability landscape changing.
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ESG integration still finding its legs in India
ESG integration still finding its legs in India
November 03, 2011
Despite the S&P ESG India index having been in place for nearly four years – longer than most sustainable company indicies in Asia – management and investing based on environment, social and governance (ESG) principles is not well developed in India. Sumantra Sen, founder director and principal researcher of India's Respsonible Investment Research Association, told CleanBiz Asia managing editor Mike Dunn about some of the issue that need to be addressed for ESG to move forward in one of the world's largest emerging markets.
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