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KfW's longest-dated green bond twice oversubscribed
12 May 2016KfW has launched its longest-dated green bond so far, in a deal which saw investor demand reach more than twice the size of the offering.
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Green bonds have more impact than estimated, says KfW
26 April 2016The two green bonds issued by German development bank KfW in 2014 had significantly more environmental and social impact than previously estimated, the bank has revealed.
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Green bond supply still falling short of demand, says major bank
20 April 2016Demand for green bonds continues to outstrip supply, despite a record first quarter for new issues, said a leading European bank in a research note on the market.
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Wind 2016: Veja Mate
23 March 2016Germany overtook the UK as Europe's fastest growing offshore wind market in 2015, according to the European Wind Energy Association. Veja Mate, its largest ever non-recourse debt financed project, is a testament to this market's vibrancy.
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Green Bond Principles working group on defining 'green' holds first meeting
03 March 2016A Green Bond Principles (GBPs) working group on how to define 'green' met for the first time this week, in the hope of updating the taxonomy of what kind of projects are suitable for green bonds, ahead of the principles' redraft in June.
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Are investors beginning to pay up for green bonds?
26 February 2016Are the occasional pieces of evidence that green bonds price differently to their mainstream equivalents a sign of things to come, asks Hamza Ali
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Apple takes $1.5bn bite out of green bond market
17 February 2016Corporate giant Apple has priced a benchmark-sized green bond, in a "tremendous boost" to the fledgling market's prospects for attracting corporate issuers.
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KfW says 2015 green bonds will save almost 3Mt of carbon dioxide annually
08 February 2016The five green bonds issued by German development bank KfW in 2015 are expected to save greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to more than 2.9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide each year, the bank said in a report.
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EF BRIEFS: Capstone, PRI, Juwi, KfW, Gothaer
22 January 2016Canadian renewables operator Capstone Infrastructure – formerly known as the Macquarie Power & Infrastructure Income Fund – will be acquired by a London-based fund in a $480 million deal.
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Green bond market ends 2015 on a high as it breaks records
06 January 2016A spate of green bond issuance ahead of COP21 led the market to break previous records, finishing the year at more than $40 billion.