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The carbon impact of green bonds
21 June 2017Mirova's Chris Wigley explains the firm's new methodology for impact measurement
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Paris rebrands its sustainable finance initiative as Finance for Tomorrow
16 June 2017An initiative aiming to position Paris as a global leader in green finance has been rebranded to give it fresh impetus.
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KommuneKredit joins Scandi green bond party
24 May 2017Danish institution KommuneKredit has priced its inaugural green bond, making it the last of Scandinavian local government funding agencies to tap the market.
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EIB says its green bonds outperform in secondary market
02 May 2017Climate Awareness Bonds (CABs) issued by the European Investment Bank (EIB) "have been outperforming regular EIB issuances" in the past few months, the bank said.
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Introducing the Principles for Positive Impact Finance
19 April 2017The Principles have been designed to help meet the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals. But how will they be implemented? Peter Cripps reports
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Green bond comment, March 2017
05 April 2017The rising tide of green bond funds is helping drive the market to new records, says Hamza Ali
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Financiers praise 'Positive Impact' Principles
30 January 2017The Principles for Positive Impact Finance were hailed as "an important step in ... overcoming the funding gap for sustainable development" at their launch today in Paris.
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France's sovereign green bond could reach €13bn this year
25 January 2017The French Treasury has issued a mammoth €7 billion ($7.5 billion) green sovereign bond, which is almost twice the size of the previous largest green bond and could be increased to €13 billion later this year.
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Mirova mulls US expansion for green bond fund
02 January 2017French socially responsible investor (SRI) Mirova is mulling the possible launch of a US dollar green bond fund targeted at US investors, according to sources familiar to the matter.
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50 shades of green bonds - and 50 ways of assessing them
29 December 2016Ratings agencies have weighed into the green bond market in the past year, adding to the raft of existing tools for assessing bonds. Where is this increasingly crowded marketplace heading, asks Peter Cripps