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  • TerraForm Power prices $300m green bond

    15 July 2015

    TerraForm Power has priced a $300 million green bond that will help it buy a portfolio of wind power assets from Invenergy.

  • Northern Trust wins ESG fixed income mandate

    14 July 2015

    Northern Trust has been awarded a fixed income mandate with environmental, social and governance (ESG) exclusions by New Zealand's NZ$29 billion ($19.5 billion) sovereign wealth fund.

  • Solar ABS set to remain at BBB level for time being, says S&P

    14 July 2015

    The credit ratings of solar securitisations are likely to be stuck at low investment grade, at least for the time being, according to Standard & Poor's (S&P).

  • Goldwind to issue China's first labelled green bond

    13 July 2015

    Chinese wind energy firm Goldwind is to roadshow the country's first labelled green bond, in a major step for the fledgling market.

  • LSE moves to make London 'centre of green bond issuance' with new segments

    10 July 2015

    The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has created a "full complement" of green bond segments, in a move it hopes will put London at the centre of the market.

  • TerraForm Power to issue green bond as part of $2bn wind deal

    08 July 2015

    TerraForm Power (Terp) is set to issue its second green bond of 2015, this time to help finance a $2 billion wind acquisition.

  • KfW commits €134m towards green bond investments in Q2

    08 July 2015

    German development bank KfW has bought €134 million ($148 million) of green bonds since announcing in early April its intention to invest up to €1 billion in the market.

  • Time to believe in miracles?

    08 July 2015

    Numerous policy announcements and actions from companies are helping to put climate change firmly on the agenda, fuelling hopes of a meaningful climate agreement in Paris in December, says Peter Cripps

  • CEFC stumps up A$100m to expand Australian rooftop solar

    06 July 2015

    Australia's green bank will provide A$100 million ($75 million) to a utility to help it roll out rooftop solar, in the latest in a series of deals to follow an agreement on renewable energy targets in the country.

  • Sunrun follows SolarCity into solar ABS market

    02 July 2015

    Sunrun is set to issue a $111 million solar asset-backed security (ABS), making it the second rooftop solar provider, behind SolarCity, to tap the market.