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  • Moody's 'ready to start assessing green bonds' by end of March

    22 February 2016

    Moody's expects to be ready to start assessing green bonds under its new methodology by the end of March, Environmental Finance has learned.

  • S&P explains credit factors in rating offshore wind farms

    16 February 2016

    Ratings agency Standard & Poor's has unveiled its methodology for deciding on the credit rating of offshore wind farms, ahead of an anticipated boom in such projects.

  • Kommuninvest says planned green bond will be 'first of many'

    12 February 2016

    Swedish public sector lender Kommuninvest hopes to follow its planned inaugural green bond with a second this year, as it continues to build up its green loan book.

  • New York MTA issues $500m 'certified' green bond

    03 February 2016

    New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is to issue a green bond certified by the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI).

  • Kexim prices second green bond

    03 February 2016

    The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) has issued an almost three-times oversubscribed $400 million green bond.

  • Moody's says green bond issuance could exceed $50bn this year

    01 February 2016

    The need for more low-carbon financing, highlighted by the UN's COP21 climate change meeting in December, could boost the issuance of green bonds this year to more than $50 billion, said Moody's Investors Service.

  • Green Bond comment - January

    27 January 2016

    The green bond market made a solid start to 2016, says Peter Cripps, while the announcement of Moody's assessment methodology marks another interesting stage in its evolution.

  • Green bond market to see at least $55bn of issues in 2016, says HSBC

    27 January 2016

    The green bond market will notch up another year of solid growth, according to analysts at HSBC, who predict between $55 billion and $80 billion of issues in 2016.

  • Chinese bank to issue RMB50bn in green bonds

    21 January 2016

    A Chinese commercial bank has gained regulatory approval to issue up to RMB50 billion ($7.6 billion) of green bonds, according to a document filed with the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

  • Moody's announces green bond assessment criteria

    14 January 2016

    Moody's is set to shake up the market for green bond 'second opinions', after it revealed plans for its own methodology to assess the environmental credentials of issuers.