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Contact Energy launches $1.3b green borrowing initiative
14 August 2017New Zealand utility Contact Energy has created a 'green borrowing programme' to provide NZ$1.8 billion ($1.3 billion) of funding for renewables projects.
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Green bond comment: New issues rise 36% in H1
05 July 2017A 36% increase in new issues in the first six months of this year, combined with further signs of maturity in the market, suggest green bonds are entering their second decade in good health.
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GBPs appoint first Chinese member of executive committee
15 June 2017Bank of China has become the first Chinese player to join the executive committee of the Green Bond Principles (GBPs).
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GBPs issues Social Bond Principles and guidelines for sustainability bonds
14 June 2017A set of Social Bond Principles (SBP) has been published to promote transparency and integrity in the growing market for 'social bonds'. Guidelines covering 'sustainability bonds' have also been issued by the Green Bond Principles (GBP).
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Morgan Stanley forms sustainability bond council
14 June 2017Morgan Stanley has launched a Global Sustainability Bond Leadership Council to oversee the development of its green, social and sustainability bond franchise.
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Green bond round-up, 15 March 2017
15 March 2017Dutch investor NN Investment Partners has included green bonds in its recently launched multi-asset fund.
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Showing leadership in the Canadian dollar green bond market
11 January 2017Ontario is committed to developing the Canadian dollar green bond market, while also enhancing impact reporting, project selection and transparency. Michael Manning explains
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50 shades of green bonds - and 50 ways of assessing them
29 December 2016Ratings agencies have weighed into the green bond market in the past year, adding to the raft of existing tools for assessing bonds. Where is this increasingly crowded marketplace heading, asks Peter Cripps
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Poland issues green bond market's first sovereign bond
15 December 2016Poland has priced a €750 million ($790 million) green bond, stealing a march on other countries such as France and Nigeria to become the first sovereign to tap the market.
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ICMA's 'call to arms' for collaboration in the green bond market
14 November 2016The International Capital Markets Association has issued a "call to arms" to participants in the green financial markets to work together, including ending the "slightly competitive dynamic" that has emerged between industry bodies.