Archive

• Is the future worth investing for?

  01 October 2018

  As the innovative Land Degradation Neutrality fund reaches a $100 million first close, Monique Barbut, Ambroise Fayolle, Rémy Rioux and Philippe Zaouati explain the role of sustainable land management in promoting resilience to climate disasters.

• Green bonds round-up, 12 September 2018

  12 September 2018

  Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD) has returned to the green bond market with a €500 million ($578 million) issue to finance a mix of projects that help mitigate or adapt to climate change.

• COP blog: The price of not investing in water

  10 November 2016

  European Investment Bank
  This week in Marrakesh I'll have water very much on my mind as my colleagues and I join experts and partners from the world's development banks and international financial institutions to pin down just how we are going to put the Paris Agreement into practice and to assess our progress since last year.

• Banking climate principles to be launched next week

  03 December 2015

  A new set of climate changes principles for the banking industry are set to be launched on Monday, Environmental Finance has learned.

• Credit Agricole dethrones SEB as leading green bond underwriter in Q3

  21 October 2014

  Credit Agricole CIB displaced Scandinavian bank SEB as the leading underwriter of green bonds in the three months to the end of September, according to the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI), a financial NGO.

• Agence Française de Développement issues inaugural benchmark green bond

  12 September 2014

  The 10-year offering – the development agency's first green bond – is reported to have a coupon of 1.375%. AFD has a AA rating from Standard & Poor's.

• 'Unique' agro-forestry fund reaches €50m first close

  19 August 2013

  A pioneering agro-forestry fund has reached first close after raising more than €50 million ($66.6 million).