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G20 backs new initiative to promote green growth
11 June 2015The G20 group of major economies has added its weight to efforts to mobilise more private capital to support sustainable green growth.
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Lloyds Bank offers second £250m ESG bond
09 June 2015Lloyds Banking Group has issued its second £250 million ($380 million) environmental, social and governance (ESG) bond to aid small and medium-sized businesses in the UK.
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Green bond industry groups turn spotlight on property sector
03 June 2015Two reports aiming to establish best practice among green bond issuers in the real estate sector have been published by separate industry groups.
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TenneT issues €1bn green bond for offshore wind
29 May 2015TenneT has issued a €1 billion ($1.1 billion) green bond, in a deal that was twice oversubscribed.
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Goldman Sachs sets $1bn target for securitised Japanese renewables bonds
27 May 2015Goldman Sachs has established a "first of its kind" facility that aims to issue $1 billion of securitised Japanese renewable energy bonds.
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People moves
22 May 2015Recent appointments in the environmental finance space, including Alexandra Ergon at Calvert, Nikolas Novograd at RET Capital and Mamadou-Abou Sarr at PRI
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Australia's ANZ to issue green bond
22 May 2015The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) will issue its first green bond, to refinance a loan book for green projects.
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JLEN confirms £45m goal for latest share offering
20 May 2015John Laing Environmental Assets Group (JLEN) has confirmed that it aims to raise £45 million ($70 million) from the share offering it announced last month.
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Yingli flags up risk of default after further losses
18 May 2015Yingli Green Energy has said its "substantial indebtedness" could cause it to default, as it records another year of losses.
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Joule gains $40m to commercialise CO2-to-fuel technologies
14 May 2015Joule Unlimited, a leader in waste-to-fuel biotechnologies, has secured $40m in private equity and venture debt financing to scale-up its operational facilities in Hobbs, New Mexico, and spur commercialization of its SolarConverter® system to produce ethanol and diesel fuels.