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  • EIB issues €400m tap of Climate Awareness Bond with negative yield

    24 February 2015

    The European Investment Bank (EIB) has further expanded its range of green bonds, with its first issue offering a negative yield.

  • World Bank sells 30-year green bond to Zurich

    20 February 2015

    The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD or World Bank) has issued a 30-year green bond exclusively for Zurich Insurance Group.

  • Deutsche Bank launches €1bn green bond portfolio

    20 February 2015

    Deutsche Bank has pledged to buy €1 billion ($1.1 billion) of green bonds, in a further sign of confidence in the market's prospects.

  • World Bank launches its biggest US dollar green bond

    20 February 2015

    The World Bank, through its International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, has issued its largest US dollar-denominated green bond, raising $600 million.

  • Iowa issues $321m green bond to finance water projects

    16 February 2015

    A series of bonds, totalling $321.5 million, has been issued by the Iowa Financing Authority to fund a range of water–related projects in the state.

  • India says Yes to green bonds

    16 February 2015

    One of India's largest private banks has launched what it claims to be the country's first green bond.

  • DNB issues first green bond from Nordic commercial bank

    16 February 2015

    DNB, one of Norway's leading commercial banks, has issued the first green bond by a commercial bank in the Nordic region.

  • Development banks in initiative to harmonise green bond impact reporting

    13 February 2015

    A number of multilateral development banks (MDBs) are working together to produce harmonised guidelines for reporting the impacts of green bonds, Environmental Finance can reveal.

  • First-time issuers and IFIs to boost 2015 green bond market, says Morgan Stanley

    12 February 2015

    The green bond market will continue to be boosted this year by first-time issuers, including financial institutions, according to a green bonds specialist at Morgan Stanley.

  • GIB to publish Green Investment Handbook

    11 February 2015

    The UK's Green Investment Bank (GIB) is to launch a guidebook to help companies and investors measure the 'greenness' of their investments.