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  • Deutsche Bank's tightened fossil fuel policy judged 'unambitious'

    28 July 2020

    Deutsche Bank has tightened its fossil fuel policy to include exiting from coal mining investments by 2025, strengthening its stance towards coal power and restricting oil and gas sector financing - but campaigners continued to criticise the lender for its lack of ambition.

  • National Grid signs $740m green loan from export agencies

    16 June 2020

    National Grid has signed a green loan worth $743 million to help fund the construction of an electricity interconnector between Denmark and the UK, believed to be the first covered green loan to be signed with more than one export credit agency.

  • RBS targets halving emissions from financing activity by 2030

    14 February 2020

    The UK's Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) pledged to halve the climate activity of its financing activity by 2030 - although it admitted that it does not know how it will achieve the goal.

  • Solarcentury secures €55m facility to fund Spanish solar plant construction

    07 January 2020

    Solar energy firm Solarcentury has secured facilities worth €54.8 million ($61.3 million) from a pair of UK banks to help fund the construction of two solar plants in Spain.

  • Green bond round-up: Société du Grand Paris, Duke Energy, ReNew Power, Kommuninvest, World Bank, Santa Fe

    13 March 2019

  • Green bond round-up, 30 January

    30 January 2019

    Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica has made its debut in the green bond market, raising €1 billion in a five-year deal. It claims this is the first bond from an issuer in the telecoms sector.

  • Henkel signs €1.5bn sustainability-linked loan

    17 December 2018

    Chemical and consumer goods company Henkel has signed a €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion) loan, which will pay interest at a rate tied to the company’s performance on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.

  • 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.

  • Green bond round-up, 10 October 2018

    10 October 2018

  • Green is Good

    22 August 2018

    Times are a-changin' in the bond market. Companies with strong environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings stand to have privileged access to the capital markets. A universal 'green treasury' approach is needed to reap the economic and social rewards, says Arthur Krebbers