IONA DIGEST – ISSUE 4
Welcome to Iona’s fourth digest, which focuses on investment in sustainable infastructure, as well as news from the energy/environment sector and the Iona Capital team. Iona Capital’s Richard Barker writes on the challenge of investing in the world’s new sustainable energy infastructure to keep within the 2°C global warming limit agreed in Paris in 2015. […]
Richard Barker talks at the TEDx London Business School event 4th May 2018
Richard Barker gave a talk titled “What the Abolition of Slavery teaches us about dealing with Climate Change” at the TEDx London Business School event at the Royal Geographic Society on the 4th May 2018. Climate Change is today’s defining global moral issue. Our collective response to it will not only define the kind of […]
Iona Capital’s Commentary On The UK Biomethane Certificate Market
The last 12 months has seen a transformation in the attitude of UK energy companies and large gas users towards Renewable Gas Guarantees of Origin, commonly referred to as green gas certificates. These are earned by biomethane production plants for every megawatt hour of biomethane injected into the national gas grid and can be used […]
Mike Dunn and Graham Mackenzie to attend and speak at Leeds Climate Commission
Mike Dunn and Graham Mackenzie of Iona Capital, an investor in environmental infrastructure and renewable energy sources will be speaking on 1 May 2018 (16:00 – 19:00) at Leeds Climate Commission’s Project Development and Finance Networking Event at Cloth Hall Court, Quebec Street, Leeds, LS1 2HA. The Commission has been established to help Leeds shape […]
Whitchurch Biogas shortlisted for Best Project
Whitchurch Biogas has created a localised circular economy with a sustainable future for a storage and distribution company with peak electrical demand of 3MWe and helped an agricultural community diversify from traditional dairy farming. https://www.regonline.co.uk/
St Boswells Is The Winner Of The Helping It Happen Awards
Winners for seven categories, including The Iver Salvesen Green Business Award have been announced. St Boswells project has won the Iver Salvesen Green Business Award. The anaerobic digestion plant in St Boswells in the Borders produces green gas from locally grown feedstock. The gas is injected directly into the national grid.
Iona Presents at Northern Powerhouse Energy Conference
Richard Barker from Iona Capital was a presenter and panellist at the Powerhouse Energy Conference in Warrington the 6th December 2017. The conference focused on the opportunities that the renewable and distribution energy transition offer in the context of the Norther Powerhouse. Presenters covered various topics including new renewable energy projects in development, Government’s role […]
IONA DIGEST – ISSUE 3
Welcome to the third issue of the Iona Digest. In the last issue, we covered the critical leadership role of pension funds in tackling climate change. Here, we will look at how investment in clean technologies and environmental infrastructure can help solve current problems such as pollution from vehicles in our cities. Investment Solutions for […]
Environmental fund to create greener investments
A new investment fund dedicated to the environmental sector has been announced today. Iona Capital was originally established in 1981 as part of the Electra Partners Group. The company will specialise in the waste-to-energy market and is led by two established industry experts – Michael Dunn and Nicholas Ross. Relating to the focus of Iona […]
IONA DIGEST – ISSUE 2
Welcome to the second issue of the Iona Digest. In the last issue, we covered the big picture driving the climate change and environmental investment agenda. In this issue, we will be looking at developments in the climate change arena and also at the critical leadership role that we believe pension funds are taking on […]
