{"id":6685,"date":"2007-10-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hsbc-investments-to-launch-climate-change-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2007\/hsbc-investments-to-launch-climate-change-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"HSBC Investments to launch climate change fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters- HSBC Investments is set to open next month a climate change fund which will invest in companies that make their profits from fighting global warming.<\/p>\n<p>  This is the latest in a string of such funds. Rising emissions of carbon dioxide, produced by burning fossil fuels like coal and oil, are widely blamed for contributing to a warming climate and  have prompted a hunt for alternative sources of energy.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;HSBC considers climate change to be one of the biggest investment themes for the foreseeable future,&#8221; Farley Thomas, global head of wholesale at HSBC Investments, said in a statement released on  Monday.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;In launching this fund, our aim is to offer investors greater choice when aiming to capture climate change opportunities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  The new HSBC fund will invest in companies that focus on clean energy production, energy efficiency and water waste and pollution control, a spokeswoman added.<\/p>\n<p>  Investors in private clean energy companies are making returns of more than 50 percent, according to research consultancy New Energy Finance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~4\/170522095\"><strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~3\/170522095\/idUKNOA62566420071016\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters- HSBC Investments is set to open next month a climate change fund which will invest in companies that make their profits from fighting global warming. This is the latest in a string of such funds. Rising emissions of carbon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}