Archive

  • KommuneKredit joins Scandi green bond party

    24 May 2017

    Danish institution KommuneKredit has priced its inaugural green bond, making it the last of Scandinavian local government funding agencies to tap the market.

  • Green bond comment, March 2017

    05 April 2017

    The rising tide of green bond funds is helping drive the market to new records, says Hamza Ali

  • Major investors call on banks to re-route Dakota pipeline

    20 February 2017

    A group of major investors has called on banks involved in the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) to re-route it so that it does not cross Native American treaty land.

  • Investing in a changing climate

    06 December 2016

    Insurers are increasingly factoring climate change into their investment decisions. But they are only at the start of a long learning process, finds Peter Cripps. This is the second part of a three-part series on how insurers are dealing with climate change

  • Storebrand's fossil-free funds see $600m of inflows this year

    28 October 2016

    Norway's Storebrand (SPP) has said that NOK5 billion ($603 million) has been invested in its fossil-free funds since the start of 2016.

  • Kommuninvest issues largest ever SEK green bond

    19 October 2016

    Swedish public sector lender Kommuninvest has priced the largest ever Swedish krona green bond, raising some SEK5 billion ($570 million).

  • SBAB sees price tightening on first Swedish bank green bond

    17 June 2016

    SBAB Bank has priced a SEK2 billion ($239 million) green bond, making it the first Swedish commercial bank to tap the market.

  • Green bonds turn social

    01 June 2016

    With a slew of 'sustainability' bonds coming to market in recent weeks, Sophie Robinson-Tillett looks at what the trend – and an imminent set of Social Bond Principles – means for the green bond market

  • 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.

  • Setting the standard

    30 March 2016

    As the market grows, so too does the number of companies and organisations 'defining' what is acceptable as a green bond. Sophie Robinson-Tillett looks at the patchwork of offerings and how they are set to develop