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  • China issues first ever "double green bond", listed in London

    11 November 2016

    China's first ever covered green bond was listed on the London Stock Exchange today.

  • Database reveals financiers behind tropical deforestation projects

    06 September 2016

    At least $38 billion of loans and underwriting facilities were provided, between 2010 and 2015, to the forestry operations of the 50 companies most involved in commodities responsible for tropical deforestation in southeast Asia.

  • NTPC prices first ever corporate green 'Masala' bond

    04 August 2016

    India's National Thermal Power Company (NTPC) has priced the first ever green 'Masala' bond from a corporate issuer, raising INR20 billion ($370 million).

  • NTPC mandates four banks for green debut

    01 August 2016

    Indian state-owned utility National Thermal Power Company (NTPC) has mandated four banks to lead manage the country's first offshore rupee green bond.

  • NDB's RMB9bn green bond is three times oversubscribed

    21 July 2016

    The New Development Bank (NDB), formerly called BRICS Bank, said its inaugural green bond attracted more than RMB9 billion ($1.3 billion) of investor interest - meaning it was three times oversubscribed.

  • BRICS Bank 'prices inaugural green bond'

    18 July 2016

    The New Development Bank (NDB), formerly called BRICS Bank, is understood to have priced a RMB3 billion ($450 million) green bond today.

  • Axis Bank tightens price on oversubscribed green bond

    24 May 2016

    India's Axis Bank said its inaugural $500 million, five-year green bond was 2.2 times oversubscribed and, as a result, the issuer tightened the pricing to 160 basis points over US Treasuries from 175 points over.

  • EF BRIEFS: FSB, Axis Bank, EIB, Stockholm, Canadian Solar, GRI, BP

    23 May 2016

    The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has appointed nine more members to its new Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures.

  • IDBI launches inaugural benchmark-sized green bond

    23 November 2015

    The Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) has launched its inaugural green bond and the second from India to be denominated in dollars.

  • China Longyuan Power raises bond for first North American wind project

    29 October 2015

    Dufferin Wind Power, a subsidiary of the second largest wind developer in the world, has issued a C$200 million ($153.5 million) project bond out of Canada.