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Barclays' energy policy backs tar sand projects with 'big money', say campaigners
16 January 2019Barclays' revised energy policy has been criticised by environmental pressure groups as underwhelming in ambition, as it provides "big money" for tar sand projects.
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Barclays plans to double green bond investments to £4bn
20 December 2018Barclays plans to grow its investments in green bonds to £4 billion ($5 billion), having already broken through its original target to commit £2 billion.
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People Moves: BNP Paribas, Boralex, ICG
14 December 2018BNP Paribas Asset Management has hired Carbon Tracker Initiative head of research and managing director Mark Lewis.
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Green Bonds round-up, 12 December
12 December 2018Swedish bank SEB has predicted that total green bond issuance could reach $240 billion in 2019, despite the market moving "sideways" this year.
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Green Bonds round-up, 28 November
28 November 2018France's state-owned postal company La Poste saw its inaugural €500 million ($564 million) green bond attract orders amounting to more than €2.1 billion.
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Principles for Responsible Banking launched with backing of 28 banks
26 November 2018The launch of a set of six principles seeking to commit banks to align with both the Paris Agreement and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been hailed as a ‘global benchmark for sustainable banking’.
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IBRD marks 10 years of green bonds with $1.2bn issue
14 November 2018The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), part of the World Bank Group, has issued two benchmark green bonds to mark the tenth anniversary of its entry into the market in 2008.
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Green bond round-up, 7 November 2018
07 November 2018MuenchenerHyp set the coupon on its debut five-year green Pfandbrief at 0.250% and priced the deal at eight basis points below the mid-swaps rate.
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Green bonds round-up, 17 October 2018
17 October 2018German commercial bank Berlin Hyp has raised €500 million ($578 million) from its third green Pfandbrief. This takes the total green debt issued by the bank to €3 billion.
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Green bonds round-up, 3 October 2018
03 October 2018Getlink said its inaugural green bond had been "comfortably oversubscribed", helping it raise €550 million ($635 million) rather than the €500 million originally envisaged.