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  • BNDES launches renewables-focused green bond fund

    05 December 2016

    Brazil's National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) has launched a R$500 million ($143 million) green bond fund to buy domestically issued renewable energy bonds.

  • Green bonds round-up

    30 November 2016

    California-based Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing company Ygrene will issue a securitised PACE green bond every quarter, Environmental Finance can reveal.

  • Green Bond Comment - September

    05 October 2016

    Green bond issuance of almost $6 billion in September took the nine-month total for this year to $61.8 billion – more than twice the figure for the same period last year.

  • Profile: Jupiter's multi-asset Ecology fund takes a bite out of Apple

    30 September 2016

    Jupiter Asset Management's new multi-asset Ecology fund will allow it to invest in a broader range of companies than before, the asset manager tells Hamza Ali.

  • Renovate launches $320m green ABS

    13 September 2016

    Renovate America, which helps finance energy efficiency projects on residential properties in California, has issued its eighth asset-backed security (ABS) under its HERO programme.

  • Renovate America prices its biggest ever green ABS

    07 June 2016

    Renovate America has priced a $305 million asset-backed security (ABS), its largest ever securitisation.

  • EF BRIEFS: EDP Renováveis, RBS, Avantium, Atlantis, Quercus

    20 April 2016

    EDP Renováveis has sold a stake in a European wind portfolio in a deal worth €550 million ($626 million).

  • Utility returns to green bond market, with benchmark issue

    15 April 2016

    A utility has returned to the green bond market, after pricing €1 billion ($1.1 billion) of notes, Environmental Finance has learned.

  • Energy efficiency lending firm plans to issue $1.3bn of green ABS

    12 April 2016

    A firm that provides financing for US households to help them make energy and water efficiency upgrades aims to issue $1.3 billion of green-labelled asset backed securities (ABS) this year.

  • EF BRIEFS: Senvion, SunEdison, EDF, Renovagen, NTR, Aquila Capital

    07 March 2016

    German-based wind turbine manufacturer Senvion plans to raise up to €703 million ($770 million) in a private placement ahead of its initial public offering.