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  • Airport operator Swedavia issues SEK1bn green bond

    10 December 2019

    Swedish state-owned Swedavia has become the latest in a string of airport operators to issue a green bond.

  • Cicero pilots Shades of Green assessment of corporates

    27 November 2019

    Cicero plans to extend use of its Shades of Green methodology to assess the transition strategy of corporates.

  • Taxonomy moving in the right direction but still too complex, says Cicero

    06 September 2019

    The second draft of the EU’s taxonomy of climate-related economic activities is an improvement on the first draft – but still risks burdening the market with unnecessary complexity, according to Cicero Shades of Green.

  • Green bond market should get a boost from proposed EU standards, say insiders

    18 June 2019

    Revised proposals for an EU Green Bond Standard (EU GBS) from the EU Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (TEG) have been generally welcomed by market insiders.

  • Worries that green bond standard will stifle market are 'premature', says EU's TEG

    03 April 2019

    Fears that the EU's green bond standard will restrict the growth of the market are premature, according to Aila Aho, the rapporteur for the sub group that is devising proposals for the standard.