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  • Green bonds 'can help achieve $100bn climate finance goal'

    11 June 2015

    Green bonds have been named one of the four instruments available to financial institutions to help ramp climate finance up to its $100 billion a year target.

  • $214 million green bond launched by Swedish municipality

    26 May 2015

    A Swedish municipality issued its second green bond last week, in a SEK1.8 billion ($214 million) deal.

  • Latvian utility to issue 'dark green' bond

    26 May 2015

    A Baltic utility is the latest to announce plans to tap the green bond market.

  • Largest ever SEK green bond sold to finance district heating

    08 May 2015

    A SEK2.5 billion ($302 million) green bond has been issued to finance 'green' heating, marking the biggest ever Krona-denominated transaction in the market.

  • Gothenburg to issue third green bond

    29 April 2015

    The City of Gothenburg plans to make its third foray into the green bond market, this time with an issue of roughly SEK1 billion ($120 million).

  • A range of opinions

    13 April 2015

    Second-party opinion providers are becoming increasingly important to the green bond market. Sophie Robinson Tillett takes a look at the different providers

  • Cicero introduces 'shades of green' to second-opinion market

    27 March 2015

    Cicero has updated its methodology for assessing green bonds, creating a three-tier scale of 'greenness'.

  • Oslo stock exchange publishes first green bond list

    03 February 2015

    The Oslo stock exchange has become the first exchange to publish a listing of green bond issues.

  • Green bond pioneer reflects on record-breaking year

    16 January 2015

    SEB held on to its position as top green bond underwriter in 2014. Christopher Flensborg tells Peter Cripps how he plans to remain a "thought leader" in the emerging market

  • Trucost to enter green bond market

    30 October 2014

    Environmental data firm Trucost is set to join the growing throng of verifiers servicing the rapidly expanding green bond market.