{"id":46633,"date":"2015-11-24T01:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/news\/cnp-assurances-and-meridiam-help-finance-the-energy-transition-by-launching-meridiam-transition\/"},"modified":"2015-11-24T01:40:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T00:40:00","slug":"cnp-assurances-and-meridiam-help-finance-the-energy-transition-by-launching-meridiam-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/news\/cnp-assurances-and-meridiam-help-finance-the-energy-transition-by-launching-meridiam-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"CNP Assurances and Meridiam help finance the energy transition by launching Meridiam Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the context of the COP 21, this fund intends to offer an innovative response to the challenges of the energy<br \/>\ntransition by contributing to the financing of greenfield investment projects and is open to all institutional investors<br \/>\nwishing to contribute to financing the ecological and energy transition.<\/p>\n<p>Meridiam Transition will mainly target innovative development projects in the field of energy efficiency, local energy<br \/>\nservices (particularly heating networks as well as energy recovery from waste), power and gas grids and innovative<br \/>\nrenewable energies.<\/p>\n<p>The fund will offer long-term support (based on a 20-year investment horizon) to projects of a fairly modest size but<br \/>\nwith a significant regional impact, in France and the European Union.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;CNP Assurances took the initiative of launching this green infrastructure fund, which is designed to invest in local<br \/>\nprojects in France and which could soon reach \u20ac500 million. As an institutional investor, we believe that it is both<br \/>\nour responsibility and in our interest as a long-term player to contribute to developing new financing models to<br \/>\nrespond to the challenges of energy transition and climate change&#8221;<\/em>, declared Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Lavenir, CEO of<br \/>\nCNP Assurances.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The energy transition, and the associated challenge of climate change, is also a fantastic chance to offer long-term<br \/>\ninvestment opportunities to institutional investors and to create a virtuous circle between savings and local projects.<br \/>\nThrough Meridiam Transition, we are delighted to be able to offer French institutional investors a chance to be part<br \/>\nof this virtuous circle&#8221;<\/em>, says Thierry D\u00e9au, Meridiam founder and CEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNP Assurances, the leading personal insurer in France, operating in Europe and Latin America and the project<br \/>\norganiser, along with management company Meridiam, announces the launch of the Meridiam Transition fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":46631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1470],"tags":[1655,1826,1682,1651,2094,2007,2139,1685],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46633"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}