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  • Bank issuance helps green bond market gather steam in Q2

    01 July 2015

    A raft of issues from private banks helped the green bond market gather pace in Q2 after a slow start to the year.

  • Green bond comment: An encouraging quarter

    01 July 2015

    When Environmental Finance's small-but-dedicated team of green bond aficionados totted up all the green bond issues from the first quarter of 2015, the numbers were a little disappointing, says Peter Cripps.

  • Financials become biggest corporate green bond issuer

    19 June 2015

    Banks have emerged as the biggest corporate issuers of green bonds after a spate of issues this year helped the sector overtake utilities, according to a report.

  • Morgan Stanley issues inaugural $500m green bond

    10 June 2015

    Morgan Stanley has joined the select ranks of private banks to have issued a green bond, after it sold $500 million of its own notes.

  • MSCI gains new ESG research head

    05 June 2015

    Sustainability expert Antti Savilaakso has joined MSCI as European head of environmental, social and governance (ESG) research.

  • ABN Amro issues €500m green bond for real estate

    03 June 2015

    ABN Amro has "set a new standard for the market" with its €500 million ($557 million) green bond.

  • ABN Amro to roadshow Euro green bond

    21 May 2015

    Dutch bank ABN Amro is making moves to enter the green bond market.

  • Wind: Project Gemini

    01 April 2015

    Gemini's record-breaking size attracted countless headlines, but the project also broke new ground in the way it was financed.

  • Santander stops funding APRIL after Greenpeace deforestation campaign

    02 March 2015

    Santander has bowed to pressure to withdraw finance from the paper company Asia Pacific Resources International (April) after Greenpeace launched a campaign criticising it for logging Indonesian forests.

  • Optimism prompts new spot exchange for EU ETS

    11 February 2015

    The EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) has seen a new spot exchange launched, in a growing sign of the market's recovery.