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Denham Capital invests in Spain's Jenner Renewables
29 September 2015Private equity firm Denham Capital has made an investment in Madrid-based clean energy producer Jenner Renewables. The size of the investment has not been disclosed.
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Investors with $2.6trn of assets make divestment pledges
23 September 2015Investors with combined assets of $2.6 trillion have made pledges to divest from fossil fuels, according to a new report.
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Investors worth $1.5trn launch infrastructure sustainability benchmark
07 September 2015Investors representing $1.5 trillion of assets have teamed up with the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) to launch a similar framework for infrastructure assets.
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Stranded assets and bankruptcy threaten US coal miners, says S&P
01 September 2015Environmental regulations and supply-demand imbalances threaten to force more US coal mining firms into bankruptcy, according to ratings agency Standard & Poor's.
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Environmental non-profit buys US coal mines
18 August 2015ERP Compliant Fuels (ERP), an environmentally-focused non-profit, has agreed to buy various assets, including two coal mines, from Patriot Coal, as part of the latter's bankruptcy proceedings.
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Norway's oil fund divests from Korea's Posco and Daewoo
18 August 2015Norway's sovereign wealth fund – the largest in the world – is to exclude leading Korean companies Posco and Daewoo International from its investment portfolio because of their involvement in palm oil plantations in Indonesia.
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Europe's Marguerite fund refinances €107m solar PV loan
22 July 2015Europe's 'Marguerite' infrastructure fund has refinanced a €107 million ($117 million) term loan facility which supported the construction of a 36MW solar photovoltaic (PV) project in France.
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$531.8bn of green bonds remain unlabelled, says research
08 July 2015The green bond market would be $531.8 billion larger if all eligible bonds were labelled, according to the latest figures on the market.
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Santander and pension funds launch $2bn renewables and water fund
28 May 2015Santander and two Canadian pension funds have launched a $2 billion renewables and water fund, which they plan to make "one of the largest and best-in-class" in the world.
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Canadian Solar secures C$53.5m non-recourse construction loan
18 May 2015Canadian Solar has agreed a non-recourse loan of up to C$53.5 million ($44.4 million) to finance the construction of its 10MW 'Illumination' solar power project in Scugog, Ontario.