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  • 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.

  • Investors call for green bond standards

    10 February 2015

    A group of more than 20 buyers of green bonds have called for the development of standards to help the fledgling market's rapid growth continue.

  • Oekom launches ratings service for green bonds

    09 February 2015

    German sustainability analysis company Oekom Research has launched a ratings service to help investors understand the environmental and social attributes of green bonds.

  • US city to issue junk bond... with investment grade rating

    06 February 2015

    A city in Washington state plans to issue a $20.39 million green bond to finance a capital spending programme on its waste collection and disposal service.