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  • Rabobank and UN Environment in $1bn sustainable food initiative

    16 October 2017

    Rabobank and UN Environment have launched a $1 billion fund to boost sustainable agriculture and halt deforestation.

  • Marcel Jeucken leaves PGGM responsible investment team

    26 September 2017

    Marcel Jeucken is to leave his position as managing director of responsible investment at Dutch pension fund PGGM to become an independent advisor.

  • Green bond round-up, 7 June

    07 June 2017

    Dutch public sector lender Nederlandse WaterschapsBank (NWB) has issued a €2 billion ($2.3 billion) affordable housing bond, its first in the social bond market.

  • Obvion prepares second green bond

    16 May 2017

    Obvion, the largest mortgage lender in the Netherlands, is gearing up to issue its second green asset backed security (ABS).

  • Final winners revealed in Environmental Finance's Green Bond Awards

    11 April 2017

    The best innovations, intermediaries and banks that helped the market set fresh records in 2016 have been honoured in the final wave of the Green Bond Awards.

  • Further Environmental Finance Green Bonds Awards winners announced

    10 April 2017

    The second wave of winners of Environmental Finance's Green Bond Awards hail the market's big issuers and innovators.

  • Environmental Finance Green Bond Awards winners revealed

    07 April 2017

    Environmental Finance's Green Bond Awards have gone from strength to strength with the number of categories expanding to reflect the growth in the market.

  • Green bonds round up, 22 March 2017

    22 March 2017

    French rail operator SNCF Reseau is gearing up to issue its second green bond.

  • Belgium's largest offshore wind farm secures €867m debt package

    16 December 2016

    Belgium's largest offshore wind farm has reached financial close, after it secured a 15-year, €867 million ($905 million) debt package from a consortium of 10 financial institutions.

  • Circular economy - the next frontier for sustainable finance, says ING

    26 October 2016

    The circular economy, in which the focus shifts from asset acquisition to asset usage, is "the next great frontier" for ING Bank in its efforts to increase its sustainable financing, said Gerald Walker, CEO for the UK, Ireland and the Middle East.