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Weather hedging could save wind farms $56bn, says insurer
31 January 2017Wind energy investors are losing some $56 billion in 'untapped asset values' as a result of their failure to transfer weather risk efficiently, according to an insurance underwriter.
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Yieldco NESF secures £150m debt facility
31 January 2017UK yieldco NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF) has secured a £150 million ($186 million) long-term debt facility from a syndicate of lenders.
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Best performing funds of 2016: Impax Environmental Markets (Ireland) Fund
30 January 2017An uptick in investors' interest in environmental-themed equities, following the Paris Agreement, helped make 2016 a 'vintage' year for the Impax Environmental Markets (Ireland) Fund, reports Hamza Ali
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Financiers praise 'Positive Impact' Principles
30 January 2017The Principles for Positive Impact Finance were hailed as "an important step in ... overcoming the funding gap for sustainable development" at their launch today in Paris.
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Buffett's MidAmerican taps green bond market
27 January 2017MidAmerican Energy has issued an $850 million green bond - the first from a company in Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway group.
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EF BRIEFS: Repower; Inspired Evolution; Burj Capital; Forest expansion
25 January 2017Swiss renewable energy company Repower has issued two green Schuldscheine, totalling €50 million, ($54 million) to refinance part of its project portfolio. They are said to be the first such instruments from a Swiss company.
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Australian banks shine in RobecoSAM ratings
24 January 2017Just six financial institutions have been awarded 'gold stars' in RobecoSAM's 2017 Sustainability Yearbook, and three of them were Australian banks.
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Green Bond Round Up - 23 January 2017
23 January 2017The European Investment Bank (EIB) has issued a SEK3 billion ($337 million) green bond, its first of 2017.
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People Moves: SIF, PiP, Speedwell, Dentons, BMO, RCG, Natural power
20 January 2017Cornerstone Capital Group's Craig Metrick has been elected as chair of the board of directors of US SIF: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment.
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Train leasing company in world first green bond certification
18 January 2017Luxembourg-based train leasing firm Alpha Trains, has become the first company of its kind to have a private placement bond certified green, after it raised €250 million (€266.5 million) from the US market.