Archive

  • Credit Agricole, BNP and Natixis fund world's largest solar project

    25 May 2017

    The world's largest solar photovoltaic (PV) project, at 1.2GW when operational, has received $900 million in funding including loans from Credit Agricole, BNP Paribas and Natixis as part of a banking syndicate.

  • EF BRIEFS: LGX, Responsible Investing, RGGI

    18 May 2017

    The Luxembourg Green Exchange (LGX), the Luxembourg Stock Exchange's (LuxSE) green bond listing service, has opened a window dedicated to social and sustainable bonds.

  • EDF and Amundi partner on energy efficiency fund

    31 March 2017

    French utility Électricité de France (EDF)has partnered with Amundi to launch an energy efficiency fund targeting up to €2 billion ($2.14 billion.

  • Trump executive order takes 'sledgehammer' to US climate action

    29 March 2017

    US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order cancelling the Clean Power Plan (CPP) – the flagship climate policy of his predecessor – in a move described "taking a sledgehammer to US climate action".

  • California carbon market sells just 16.6% of allocation

    02 March 2017

    California and Québec's carbon market collapsed again, with just 12.4 million, 16.6%, of the 74.8 million tonnes of allowances available at the Cap-and-Trade Program sold at last month's auction, at the 'floor price' of $13.57 a tonne.

  • Folksam raises green bond investment limit

    21 February 2017

    Swedish insurance and pension provider Folksam has raised its green bond investment limit to SEK12 billion ($1.3 billion) having already invested SEK7 billion in the asset class.

  • EF BRIEFS: EOS, UBS

    01 February 2017

    EOS Investment Management (IM) has acquired a 40MW renewable energy portfolio in Italy for €140 million ($150.2 million)

  • France's sovereign green bond could reach €13bn this year

    25 January 2017

    The French Treasury has issued a mammoth €7 billion ($7.5 billion) green sovereign bond, which is almost twice the size of the previous largest green bond and could be increased to €13 billion later this year.

  • Green Bonds Round Up - 18 January 17

    18 January 2017

    Danish public sector lender KommuneKredit is gearing up to launch a benchmark-sized euro-denominated green bond in the second quarter of this year.

  • US carbon markets start the year at 'crossroads'

    13 January 2017

    Both carbon markets in the US, the California Cap-and-Trade Program and the North East's Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), enter 2017 at a crossroads, according to one industry expert.