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  • Thames Tideway 'super sewer' issues £450m green bonds

    24 November 2017

    £450 million ($599 million) worth of green issues from London 'super sewer' developer Tideway has helped it overtake Unilever as the largest corporate issuer of sterling-denominated green bonds.

  • Climate tool for financial firms launched at COP23

    10 November 2017

    A tool designed to help share knowledge about how financial firms are integrating climate considerations into their businesses has been launched at the Bonn Climate Summit.

  • JP Morgan is top green bond underwriter in Q3, with a string of EM deals

    13 October 2017

    JP Morgan seized the bragging rights to the green bond underwriting market in the third quarter of 2017, helped by a series of benchmark-sized issues in emerging markets.

  • Green bond round-up, 11 October 2017

    11 October 2017

    Fiji looking at green bonds, says economy minister Fiji is considering using green bonds to help boost the country's renewable energy resources, according to a senior minister quoted in the local press.

  • Societe Generale expects growth in sovereign green bond issuance - but maybe not this year

    21 September 2017

    French bank Societe Generale's head of sustainable bonds is "entirely convinced" there will be significant growth in sovereign green bonds issued in Europe in the near future.

  • French property group uses green bonds to boost CSR effort

    05 September 2017

    French real estate investor Icade has issued a green bond to support its corporate social responsibility (CSR) ambitions.

  • Big in Japan?

    04 September 2017

    Support from the biggest pension fund in the world is helping ESG take off in Japan, write Peter Cripps and Joe Walsh

  • French banks are en marche in July green bond underwriting table

    11 August 2017

    BNP Paribas emerged as the biggest green bond underwriter in July, as French banks continued their assault on the high-profile market in a bid to seize the bragging rights from their American rivals.

  • Green bond round-up, 9 August 2017

    09 August 2017

    The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has issued its eighth green bond, raising $1.25 billion.

  • EcoAct snaps up Carbon Clear

    19 July 2017

    EcoAct, a Paris-based climate change advisory firm, has acquired Carbon Clear of the UK for an undisclosed sum.