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Carbon Tracker appoints senior lawyer as first CEO
03 December 2013Anthony Hobley, global head of sustainability and climate change at law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, is to become the first CEO of the Carbon Tracker Initiative.
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People moves
02 December 2013The latest people moves in the environmental markets, including appointments at Calvert Investments, CF Partners, Conergy, the Climate Bonds Initiative and more
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CDM rescue fund seeks proposals
27 November 2013Developers of projects that qualify for carbon credits under the Clean Development Mechanism, but are not economically viable at present, are being invited to sell credits to a newly formed fund until 8 January.
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UK market reforms to 'create problems' for renewables finance
21 November 2013Renewables projects will face further challenges securing finance amid sweeping reforms to the UK government's flagship incentive programme, according to developers and lawyers advising industry on the changes.
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COP Blog: Follow the money
19 November 2013Before this year's Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN climate convention got underway, the Warsaw meeting was being widely referred to as 'the finance COP'
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SolarCity's bond to 'open the gates' for solar securitisations
15 November 2013SolarCity's $54 million bond issue will "open the gates" for other solar firms that want to tap the asset-backed security (ABS) markets, and could wipe as much as three percentage points off their borrowing costs, an analyst has claimed.
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SolarCity's $54m bond gets BBB+ preliminary rating from S&P
14 November 2013SolarCity's planned $54 million bond issue has been given a low investment-grade preliminary rating by Standard & Poor's.
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A licence to list?
14 November 2013There has been a welcome increase in the number of renewables firms launching IPOs in 2013. But is this promising spate of activity a sign that investor confidence in the sector is finally growing, or will it prove a false dawn, asks Peter Cripps
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EU ETS backloading saga nears conclusion as states agree to start 'trialogue'
08 November 2013EU member states today gave the go-ahead to begin talks with the Parliament and Commission on a short-term fix to boost prices in the region's emissions trading system (ETS).
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Sustainability heavyweight
05 November 2013With its ambitious targets to tackle greenhouse gas emissions, waste and water use, Unilever is widely seen as a sustainability champion. Its CEO Paul Polman tells Peter Cripps how its efforts to tackle environmental problems have helped drive its growth