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  • Macquarie completes £500m Green Loan Principle-aligned issue

    13 June 2018

    Macquarie has become the first financial institution to issue in line with regional Green Loan Principles (GLPs), it claimed, following its issue of £500 million ($666 million) in green notes.

  • Sustainable banking principles to be launched in November

    01 June 2018

    Banks from five different continents have joined forces to redefine the sector's purpose, in alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement.

  • Aldo Romani named Personality of the Year in Environmental Finance's Green Bond Awards

    29 March 2018

    Personality of the year - Aldo Romani

  • Environmental Finance Green Bond Awards winners revealed

    28 March 2018

    Environmental Finance's Green Bond Awards have grown for the second consecutive year, as the number of categories expands in line with a rapidly expanding market.

  • Chinese green bond market needs to grow further

    09 February 2018

    Green bond issuance from China has to grow tenfold in just three years if the country is to have a large slice of the $1 trillion target per year by 2020, a report has argued.

  • Green bond round-up – 24 January 2018

    24 January 2018

    Singapore-based Sindicatum Renewable Energy has issued a two-tranche INR2.5 billion ($40 million) bond to fund clean energy projects in India.

  • Green bond round-up, 17 January 2018

    17 January 2018

    Swedish bank SEB expects 2018 will be "a year of consolidation and more modest growth" for green bond issuance than in 2017, with potential to grow 12% year-on-year, to $175 billion.

  • Giant Australian wind projects get dual financing boost

    22 December 2017

    A pair of onshore wind farms in Australia with a combined 959MW of planned capacity have agreed financing deals with a host of major banks and telecommunications companies.

  • China gets tough with corporate polluters

    12 December 2017

    From 2018, the Beijing government is to insist that all listed companies and bond issuers in China disclose the environmental risks associated with their operations or explain why they are not doing so.

  • Green bond market sees another record month

    01 December 2017

    The booming green bond market scaled fresh heights in November, which saw $16.7 billion of issues, setting a new monthly record.