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  • Akuo issues second green bond

    26 July 2016

    French independent power producer Akuo Energy, successfully priced its second green bond raising a €44 million ($48 million).

  • EF BRIEFS: Iran solar project, Carbon Trade Exchange, G-20 on green bonds

    26 July 2016

    Italian and Swiss investors have agreed to commit €40 million ($44 million) to help finance the construction of Iran's largest solar energy plant, according to local press reports. The investors have not been identified.

  • Green bond issuance outstrips 2015 total

    25 July 2016

    Issuance of labelled green bonds this year has already surpassed the total recorded in 2015, thanks to two more large bonds from Chinese banks.

  • China issues $6bn of green bonds in one week

    25 July 2016

    Three Chinese issuers came to the market with CNY40.25 billion ($6.03 billion) of domestic green bonds last week, continuing a strong year for the country's green bond market.

  • French pension scheme to launch green bond fund

    22 July 2016

    A French public sector pension scheme is mulling the launch of the country's fifth dedicated green bond fund.

  • NDB's RMB9bn green bond is three times oversubscribed

    21 July 2016

    The New Development Bank (NDB), formerly called BRICS Bank, said its inaugural green bond attracted more than RMB9 billion ($1.3 billion) of investor interest - meaning it was three times oversubscribed.

  • $80m green bond prices for hydropower

    21 July 2016

    An energy firm has priced an $80.05 million green bond, the proceeds of which will be used to complete the financing of a hydroelectricity project.

  • EF BRIEFS: Vermont green bond, SASB, TerraForm Global

    20 July 2016

    Vermont Educational and Health Buildings Financing Agency has priced its second green bond.

  • TCV prices Australia's first government-issued green bond

    20 July 2016

    The Treasury Corporation of Victoria (TCV) has priced Australia's first government-issued green bond.

  • BRICS Bank 'prices inaugural green bond'

    18 July 2016

    The New Development Bank (NDB), formerly called BRICS Bank, is understood to have priced a RMB3 billion ($450 million) green bond today.