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  • Arise raises SEK350m in second green bond

    01 September 2014

    Swedish wind farm developer Arise has issued an SEK350 million ($50.5 million) green bond, refinancing an existing bond.

  • Arise plans return to green bond market with SEK350m issue

    26 August 2014

    Swedish wind farm developer Arise is planning to issue an SEK350 million green bond in a deal that would see it refinance an existing bond.

  • Green bonds reach the tipping point

    22 July 2014

    A surge of corporate issues is supporting a bullish mood in the environmental bond market, says Graham Cooper

  • Voluntary carbon leaders look on the bright side

    30 June 2014

    The dominant players in the voluntary carbon market are optimistic about the future, despite a decline in volumes and prices between 2012 and 2013, according to the latest survey of the market by Environmental Finance.

  • Hera's €500m green bond is three-times oversubscribed

    27 June 2014

    A €500 million green bond, believed to be Italy's first, was three-times oversubscribed when it was issued this week.

  • SGS pulls out of carbon certification in 'drastic development' for CDM

    13 June 2014

    Certification firm SGS is to stop offering Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) services, in a move that the Project Developer Forum (PDF) described as a major blow to the market.

  • Arise launches SEK1.1 bn green bond

    16 April 2014

    Wind farm developer Arise has issued an SEK 1.1 billion ($16.7 million) green bond, securitised by revenue from 10 wind farms in southern Sweden.

  • CDM must stop verifier exodus, warns new Executive Board member

    26 February 2014

    The Clean Development Mechanism will struggle to recover if verifiers continue to leave the market, a new member of its oversight board has warned.

  • DNV pulls out of CDM verification, in 'sign of market collapse'

    13 February 2014

    DNV GL is to stop providing validation and verification services for the Clean Development Mechanism and other international climate change mitigation projects, in a stark sign of the "steady collapse" of the world's only global carbon market.