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  • Green Climate Fund is 'considering issuing green bonds'

    09 November 2016

    The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is contemplating issuing green bonds to help expand its activities, Environmental Finance understands.

  • Can't rain on the COP22 parade

    07 November 2016

    As delegates from around the world gather to begin ironing out the details of the landmark Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 2°C in a rainlogged Marrakesh, spirits could not be higher despite some enormous challenges.

  • Paris Agreement comes into force

    04 November 2016

    Investors and businesses had a renewed impetus to embrace the emerging low-carbon economy today, as the Paris Agreement to limit global warming at 2°C officially came into force.

  • GCF looking to grow funding sources

    02 November 2016

    The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is looking to increase its sources of funding and reach out directly to the private sector including large institutional investors.

  • Looking ahead to COP22

    31 October 2016

    With the Marrakesh climate summit just days away, Tim Baines looks at some of the major areas for discussion.

  • External review of green bonds: lessons learned

    14 October 2016

    When it comes to external reviews, the green bond market could learn from the carbon market, argues Phillip Ludvigsen

  • China and US ratification 'could see climate deal start this year'

    05 September 2016

    China and the US have ratified the Paris climate deal, raising the possibility that it could come into force as soon as this year.

  • Could green bonds revitalise the CDM?

    03 June 2016

    Plans are being developed to use the green bond market to breathe new life into the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a UN tool to channel climate finance to developing countries.

  • People Moves

    20 May 2016

    The latest people moves from Carbon Tracker, South Pole, UNFCCC and GGGI

  • Espinosa named as Figueres' replacement

    19 May 2016

    Patricia Espinosa will replace Christina Figueres as the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.