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Italian renewables firm issues bond
26 August 2015Italian renewables firm Building Energy has abandoned plans to issue a green bond, coming to market with €30 million of unlabelled notes instead.
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US carbon prices buoyant as more states eye trading
26 August 2015Prices of emission allowances in North America's mandatory carbon markets have been rising this year, amid speculation that more states may join them or set up linked trading regimes.
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US government to insure PACE mortgages in bid to ramp up energy transition
26 August 2015The US government has pledged to insure mortgages for homes under Property-Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) in order to boost the programme's flagging residential market.
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Henderson SRI fund measures carbon footprint
26 August 2015Henderson Global Care Growth Fund has started analysing the carbon footprint of its portfolio using Trucost data, Environmental Finance has learned.
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ING Bank H1 sustainable lending increases to €20.9bn
25 August 2015ING Bank has increased its sustainable lending for the first half of the year to €20.9 billion ($24.1 billion), an increase of 7% compared with the proceeding half year.
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Consortium lands 'unprecedented' debt package for Australian wind
20 August 2015John Laing and other investors have landed 'an unprecedented' financing package to build an Australian wind farm.
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Yieldco dream still alive for Canadian Solar, despite market volatility
19 August 2015Canadian Solar has stuck by its plans to launch a yieldco, despite share prices of similar vehicles having nosedived in recent months.
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Environmental non-profit buys US coal mines
18 August 2015ERP Compliant Fuels (ERP), an environmentally-focused non-profit, has agreed to buy various assets, including two coal mines, from Patriot Coal, as part of the latter's bankruptcy proceedings.
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Norway's oil fund divests from Korea's Posco and Daewoo
18 August 2015Norway's sovereign wealth fund – the largest in the world – is to exclude leading Korean companies Posco and Daewoo International from its investment portfolio because of their involvement in palm oil plantations in Indonesia.
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NTR to spin-off pureplay European wind company
18 August 2015Irish conglomerate NTR has revealed in full its plan to spin off its European wind business into a separate company.