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Bank issuance helps green bond market gather steam in Q2
01 July 2015A raft of issues from private banks helped the green bond market gather pace in Q2 after a slow start to the year.
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Green bond comment: An encouraging quarter
01 July 2015When 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.
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Financials become biggest corporate green bond issuer
19 June 2015Banks 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.
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Morgan Stanley issues inaugural $500m green bond
10 June 2015Morgan Stanley has joined the select ranks of private banks to have issued a green bond, after it sold $500 million of its own notes.
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MSCI gains new ESG research head
05 June 2015Sustainability expert Antti Savilaakso has joined MSCI as European head of environmental, social and governance (ESG) research.
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ABN Amro issues €500m green bond for real estate
03 June 2015ABN Amro has "set a new standard for the market" with its €500 million ($557 million) green bond.
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ABN Amro to roadshow Euro green bond
21 May 2015Dutch bank ABN Amro is making moves to enter the green bond market.
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Wind: Project Gemini
01 April 2015Gemini's record-breaking size attracted countless headlines, but the project also broke new ground in the way it was financed.
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Santander stops funding APRIL after Greenpeace deforestation campaign
02 March 2015Santander 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.
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Optimism prompts new spot exchange for EU ETS
11 February 2015The EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) has seen a new spot exchange launched, in a growing sign of the market's recovery.