Archive

  • NRW Bank attracts green buyers to €500m green bond

    04 November 2015

    NRW Bank has issued its third green bond, with the majority of the €500 million ($544 million) of paper sold to investors with a green or social mandate.

  • EF BRIEFS: Union Group, BlackRock, HomeStreet, Chinese cement

    01 November 2015

    The Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC) has agreed to invest $3.5 million in two hydro plants in Peru.

  • People moves

    21 October 2015

    A round-up of the latest new appointments and moves in the industry, including changes at SunEdison, PRI, UKSIF, MSCI and EY.

  • Greater public sector support 'vital' to achieving $1trn green bond market

    22 September 2015

    Public sector support is "vital" to help the green bond market scale up to $1 trillion by 2020, a figure that would help avoid catastrophic climate change, according to a report by the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI).

  • Feedback required for geothermal standards in the green bond market

    16 September 2015

    The Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) is calling for feedback on planned criteria for geothermal-based green bonds.

  • Green bond market gets its first agricultural and forestry standards

    11 September 2015

    The Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) has released standards it hopes will bolster green bond issuance in the agricultural and forestry space.

  • Analysis: The Climate Bonds Initiative's new standards

    17 July 2015

    The CBI's proposed new standards are designed to shore up investor confidence in the market. But will they prove too onerous for many issuers, asks Sophie Robinson-Tillett

  • Climate Bonds Initiative to revamp its standards

    17 July 2015

    The Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) is set to relaunch its green bond standards in a move it claims will boost investor confidence in the market.

  • $531.8bn of green bonds remain unlabelled, says research

    08 July 2015

    The green bond market would be $531.8 billion larger if all eligible bonds were labelled, according to the latest figures on the market.

  • Green bond industry groups turn spotlight on property sector

    03 June 2015

    Two reports aiming to establish best practice among green bond issuers in the real estate sector have been published by separate industry groups.