We participated on a panel discussing financial innovation solutions to lure some of the trillions of dollars signed up by UN PRI signatories into effective carbon reduction strategies. We shared our views on the importance of ‘liquid’ as opposed to… Read More ›
Mohammed Yunus, Paris 2019: discussing the intersection of climate change, technology and poverty and how innovation and social enterprise can lead to sustainable solutions. I told him my fund, Accessible Clean Energy was inspired by the Grameen… Read More ›
Pleased to have our fund mentioned by the WSJ. Across the political spectrum, clean energy is already perceived as a key solution to carbon reduction as well as a fabulous investment opportunity. Funds Say Climate Change Is Now Part of… Read More ›
We note with relish the latest Big Read from the Financial Times, entitled The Big Green Bang: How Renewables Became Unstoppable. It’s a pleasure to read, in a paper that routinely covers energy to include just fossil fuels and until now… Read More ›
Renewables have hit many milestones over the last few years – record installation levels, record investment, more new renewable capacity installed last year than all fossil fuels combined. But this one’s a big one: the latest issue of the International… Read More ›
Regular readers will already be aware that the VAM – Accessible Green Energy Fund is located in Luxembourg. Apart from being a financial centre, particularly adept at fund management and hosting, Luxembourg listed the first Green Bond in 2007 in… Read More ›
South African Airways announced this week that one of its planes has completed its first flight using jet fuel made from the crushed seeds of a tobacco plant. ESI Africa Power magazine reported that the airline used 6,300 litres of bio jet… Read More ›
In a speech last week, Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, emphasised yet again: climate change is an economic problem. “What is your strategy for managing climate-related risk?” he said. “Longer-term strategies are going to be much more… Read More ›
Portugal just took a huge step forward in the renewable energy arena. The country ran on solar, wind and hydropower energy for 107-hours straight from 6:45 a.m. May 7 to 5:45 p.m. May 11, The Guardian reported. This was a… Read More ›
The , the world’s largest health charity, has divested its $187 million stake in oil giant BP as part of the growing global fossil fuel divestment movement. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates (pictured) and his wife Melinda set up the Foundation… Read More ›
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