Archive

  • Green bonds round-up - 24 Oct - 17 new deals

    24 October 2018

    Royal Schiphol Group, the owner of Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, has priced a green bond worth €500 million ($576 million), making it the first European airport to issue green-labelled notes.

  • Development banks eye private capital to tackle plastics pollution

    15 October 2018

    The European Investment Bank (EIB), Agence Française de Developpement (AFD) and Germany’s KfW are joining forces to support an initiative that they hope will ‘crowd-in’ private capital to reduce plastic pollution of the oceans.

  • Sustainable finance has yet to be fully integrated in Germany's banks, says report

    28 August 2018

    While sustainable finance hasn't reached the core business of Germany's financial institutions, the topic has attracted attention of the majority of its C-suite, a report claims.

  • KfW calculates impact of recent green bond issues

    23 July 2018

    German development bank KfW estimates that the €612 million ($715 million) of green paper it issued in the first six months of this year will save about €72 million/year in terms of fuel costs and other environmental and social impacts.

  • Actiam New Member of the ICMA Executive Committee

    19 June 2018

    The International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) announced Foppe-Jan van der Meij of Actiam as its new member of the Executive Committee of the Green Bond Principles (GBP) at the annual meeting on 14 June 2018.

  • Members of EU Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance announced

    13 June 2018

    The European Commission has announced the members of its Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance.

  • Green bond round-up, 16 May

    16 May 2018

    The African Development Bank (AfDB) has priced its second social bond to help finance socio-economic development on the continent.

  • Green share of KfW funding rises more than 33% since 2010

    05 February 2018

    KfW's support for green projects has risen sharply in recent years, reaching 43% of its financing in 2017, up from 31% in 2010, the development bank said in its annual review.

  • Green bond round-up, 31 January 2018

    31 January 2018

    Poland has tapped the green bond market for the second time, with a €1 billion ($1.2 billion) issue.

  • 2018 'set to be another record year' for the green bond market

    26 January 2018

    The green bond market is set for another record-breaking year of issues in 2018, according to an online poll conducted by Environmental Finance.