Archive

  • G20 backs new initiative to promote green growth

    11 June 2015

    The G20 group of major economies has added its weight to efforts to mobilise more private capital to support sustainable green growth.

  • Lloyds Bank offers second £250m ESG bond

    09 June 2015

    Lloyds 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.

  • Green bond industry groups turn spotlight on property sector

    03 June 2015

    Two reports aiming to establish best practice among green bond issuers in the real estate sector have been published by separate industry groups.

  • TenneT issues €1bn green bond for offshore wind

    29 May 2015

    TenneT has issued a €1 billion ($1.1 billion) green bond, in a deal that was twice oversubscribed.

  • Goldman Sachs sets $1bn target for securitised Japanese renewables bonds

    27 May 2015

    Goldman Sachs has established a "first of its kind" facility that aims to issue $1 billion of securitised Japanese renewable energy bonds.

  • People moves

    22 May 2015

    Recent appointments in the environmental finance space, including Alexandra Ergon at Calvert, Nikolas Novograd at RET Capital and Mamadou-Abou Sarr at PRI

  • Australia's ANZ to issue green bond

    22 May 2015

    The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) will issue its first green bond, to refinance a loan book for green projects.

  • JLEN confirms £45m goal for latest share offering

    20 May 2015

    John Laing Environmental Assets Group (JLEN) has confirmed that it aims to raise £45 million ($70 million) from the share offering it announced last month.

  • Yingli flags up risk of default after further losses

    18 May 2015

    Yingli Green Energy has said its "substantial indebtedness" could cause it to default, as it records another year of losses.

  • Joule gains $40m to commercialise CO2-to-fuel technologies

    14 May 2015

    Joule 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.