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  • Telenor signs €2bn sustainability-linked debt facility

    17 April 2020

    Telenor has signed a €2 billion ($2.2 billion) sustainability-linked revolving credit facility (RCF) to refinance an existing credit facility.

  • Mizuho Financial faces first Japanese climate resolution

    16 March 2020

    Mizuho Financial faces the first shareholder resolution in Japan, calling on the bank to disclose its climate risks and publish a plan to align investments to the Paris Agreement.

  • Bond round-up – 24 April: China Three Gorges, Royal Bank of Canada, Citi, United Urban Investment, ANA Holdings

    24 April 2019

    Hydropower developer China Three Gorges (CTG) has issued green bonds worth CNY20 billion ($2.98 billion), according to local media.

  • Land of the rising green bond

    19 April 2019

    After a year of stellar growth, what are the prospects of Japan's green bond market, asks Elena K. Johansson

  • Bonds round-up: ICBC, Banque Postale, ABN Amro, ERG, Yorkshire Water, Woolworths, Shinhan Bank, IADB, Chile, Otto, Arizona State University, NYC Housing, OPIC, Nomura, Trianon

    17 April 2019

    La Banque Postale has issued its first green bond, raising €750 million ($849 million).

  • Green bond round-up: ICO, Klabin, Reykjavik Energy, Midsummer, IBRD, Fabege, Housing New Zealand, Argosy Property and Vasakronan

    03 April 2019

    Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO), a state-owned Spanish bank, has issued a €500 million ($562 million) green note that matures in 2024.

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

    13 March 2019

  • First Japanese fund launched for overseas offshore wind

    18 February 2019

    Sumitomo Corporation, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), and the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) have launched what they claim is Japan's first renewable energy fund to invest in overseas offshore wind projects.

  • Green bonds round-up, 6 February

    06 February 2019

    Bank of America has raised $500 million from what it said is the first social bond by a US bank.

  • Green Bonds round-up, 19 December

    19 December 2018

    The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has allocated THB5 billion ($152 million) to buy the whole of a two-tranche green bond offering from Thailand's B. Grimm Power.