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  • Mark Fulton joins CBI to work on green securitisation

    21 November 2013

    Climate investment expert Mark Fulton has joined the Climate Bonds Initiative as a senior fellow working on green securitisation.

  • SolarCity's bond to 'open the gates' for solar securitisations

    15 November 2013

    SolarCity's $54 million bond issue will "open the gates" for other solar firms that want to tap the asset-backed security (ABS) markets, and could wipe as much as three percentage points off their borrowing costs, an analyst has claimed.

  • People moves

    15 November 2013

    The latest people moves in the environmental markets, covering companies including Terra Firma, Deutsche Bank, Climate Change Capital, the Global Reporting Initiative and more

  • Deutsche Bank parts company with carbon research head

    07 November 2013

    Mark Lewis has stepped down as head of carbon research at Deutsche Bank, just months after the bank pulled the plug on its emissions trading activities.

  • IFC issues second $1bn green bond of 2013

    06 November 2013

    The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has launched its second $1 billion green bond of 2013, and called on other development banks to follow it with more 'benchmark' issues.

  • Infinis passes milestone on road to '£930m' float

    04 November 2013

    The renewables company run by private equity giant Terra Firma, has provided further details of its plans to float this month, in a move expected to value the company at up to £930 million ($1.5 billion).

  • Terra Firma to float '£1.5bn' Infinis

    21 October 2013

    Private equity giant Terra Firma's Infinis Energy is set to become the latest renewables firm to tap the public markets after it announced plans for a float that could value the company at £1.5 billion ($2.4 billion).

  • Banker calls for sustainability reporting metrics to be standardised by law

    26 September 2013

    The sustainability metrics reported by companies should be standardised and defined by law to help the environmental, social and governance investment sector expand beyond its current niche, a conference heard.

  • Former Goldman Sachs analyst to launch research firm

    27 August 2013

    The former head of Goldman Sachs' GS Sustain equity research team is launching a boutique agency focusing on long-term investment opportunities, Environmental Finance can reveal.

  • World Bank issues $550m green bond

    12 August 2013

    The World Bank has returned to the green bond market in a follow-up to its record-breaking $1 billion offering earlier this year.