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  • Green Bond Round Up - 11 January 2017

    11 January 2017

    Yunnan Water has issued a privately placed RMB1.8 billion ($260 million) green bond.

  • Showing leadership in the Canadian dollar green bond market

    11 January 2017

    Ontario is committed to developing the Canadian dollar green bond market, while also enhancing impact reporting, project selection and transparency. Michael Manning explains

  • IIGCC appoints Damgaard Jensen new chair

    10 January 2017

    The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) has appointed PKA CEO Peter Damgaard Jensen as its new chair.

  • Green bonds round-up

    04 January 2017

    Chinese property company Modern Land has issued a $150 million tap of its inaugural green bond.

  • Export Import Bank of China issues green bond

    22 December 2016

    The Export Import Bank of China (Chexim) has issued a RMB1 billion ($145 million) green bond, making it the first Chinese policy bank to do so.

  • Ship owners and NGOs object to EU ETS reform proposals

    19 December 2016

    A proposed revision of the EU's pioneering Emissions Trading System (ETS) is facing strong opposition from ship owners and some environmental NGOs.

  • Carbon markets face fresh uncertainty

    13 December 2016

    Political changes in the UK and US have reversed recent progress towards greater clarity in the world's largest carbon markets, says Graham Cooper

  • Back to the (uncertain) future

    12 December 2016

    Despite setbacks in some key markets, the winners of this year's Environmental Finance Market Rankings are generally bullish about the growth of existing trading systems and the creation of new ones

  • IETA calls for swift agreement on EU ETS

    12 December 2016

    The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) has called on the European Parliament's environment committee to quickly come to an agreement on proposed amendments to the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), after the initial 8 December deadline was missed.

  • UK railway pension fund invests in rooftop solar

    12 December 2016

    RPMI Railpen, the pension scheme for the UK's railway industry, is to provide £20.3 million ($25.5 million) of inflation-linked debt capital to refinance a portfolio of rooftop solar installations owned by Foresight Group.