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  • India, Paris and EIB add $2bn to green bond market

    03 July 2017

    The European Investment Bank (EIB), has issued a €1 billion ($1.124 billion) Climate Awareness Bond maturing in 2047.

  • Credit Agricole, BNP and Natixis fund world's largest solar project

    25 May 2017

    The world's largest solar photovoltaic (PV) project, at 1.2GW when operational, has received $900 million in funding including loans from Credit Agricole, BNP Paribas and Natixis as part of a banking syndicate.

  • NBAD makes second attempt at first green bond

    27 March 2017

    The National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) has returned to the green bond market, after postponing its first planned offering in September.

  • TSKB to issue sustainability bond to increase bank capital

    16 March 2017

    Turkish investment and development bank Turkiye Sinai Kalkinma (TSKB) is gearing up to issue a first-of-its-kind sustainability bond that will be partially used to meet the bank's capital requirements.

  • Starbucks issues JPY85bn sustainability bond

    13 March 2017

    US coffee shop giant Starbucks has issued a JPY85 billion ($736 million) sustainability bond, the biggest of its kind issued in Japanese yen.

  • HSBC tightens policy on palm oil financing

    21 February 2017

    HSBC has pledged to tighten its policy on financing palm oil companies, to help improve the sustainability of the industry.

  • Why Allianz is investing where the wind blows

    10 February 2017

    Allianz's in-house alternative asset manager has closed four tax equity investments in US wind farms in only 12 months, and plans more in 2017. Head of renewables at Allianz Capital Partners David Jones talks to Asa Gibson about the firm's American wind adventure.

  • Allianz and MUFG in US wind farm tax equity deal

    03 February 2017

    Allianz Capital Partners (ACP) – the alternative investment manager of German insurer Allianz – and Japanese financial conglomerate Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) have co-invested in a 225MW wind project in Oklahoma.

  • Best performing funds of 2016: Vontobel New Power A

    27 January 2017

    In a disappointing year for clean energy funds, Vontobel found a safe harbour in grid infrastructure stocks. Pascal Dudle talks to Joe Walsh.

  • Banks making progress on combating climate change

    17 January 2017

    Banks have made considerable progress in addressing climate risks and opportunities in their business practices to align with a 2°C global warming target, but it is still not enough, according to a new report.