Archive

  • Annual Market Rankings winners revealed

    09 December 2016

    Environmental Finance is proud to announce the winners in its 17th Annual Market Rankings.

  • People Moves

    26 August 2016

    Peter Munro, the European Investment Bank's head of investment relations, is to move to the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA), where he will help administer the Green Bond Principles.

  • TCV prices Australia's first government-issued green bond

    20 July 2016

    The Treasury Corporation of Victoria (TCV) has priced Australia's first government-issued green bond.

  • Australia's first 'government-issued green bond' launched

    18 July 2016

    The Treasury Corporation of Victoria (TCV) has launched a A$300 million ($228 million) green bond, the first from an Australian state government.

  • Revised GBPs get qualified welcome from investors

    22 June 2016

    New guidance for issuers of 'social' bonds and 'pure-play' green bonds, in the latest version of the Green Bond Principles (GBPs), has been broadly welcomed by investors.

  • Platina announces two renewables refinancings

    18 May 2016

    Private equity firm Platina Energy Partners has refinanced a £28 million ($40 million) wind portfolio and a €50 million ($56 million) solar portfolio.

  • FlexiGroup launches ABS with green tranche

    18 April 2016

    Australian consumer lender FlexiGroup has launched an A$260 million ($200 million) asset backed security (ABS) with a green tranche.

  • People Moves - March 2016

    22 March 2016

    The latest people moves at companies including SunEdison, RWE, Green Climate Fund, DNV GL, Schroders and more

  • Green Bond Principles working group on defining 'green' holds first meeting

    03 March 2016

    A Green Bond Principles (GBPs) working group on how to define 'green' met for the first time this week, in the hope of updating the taxonomy of what kind of projects are suitable for green bonds, ahead of the principles' redraft in June.

  • First forestry pureplay green bond issued

    29 February 2016

    The world's first green bond to be issued by a 'pureplay' forestry company has been sold.