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Sweden has come top of J. Safra Sarasin's newly created sovereign sustainability matrix, which Sarasin says will complement existing ratings for sovereign bond issuers.

The World Bank, one of the largest issuers of green bonds, has published a detailed summary of the environmental and social impacts of all 77 projects financed by the proceeds.

The risks of offering dollar-linked tariffs for renewable energy need to be carefully managed, argues Gireesh Shrimali

The World Bank has agreed to pay $2.40 for carbon credits through a new initiative to help keep methane-reduction projects alive.

The world's largest development banks have joined together to agree principles for measuring their financing of green projects.

Carbon pricing instruments around the world now have a combined value of almost $50 billion, according to new data from the World Bank.

Issuers' reports on the environmental impact of their green bonds range from a few paragraphs on hard-to-find webpages to 80-page documents. But, given the costs and assumptions involved, some question whether more is necessarily better. Graham Cooper reports

The World Bank has broken through the $500 million mark for its index-linked green bond issuance.

SunEdison has bought two more renewable energy companies for its yieldco, continuing an unrivalled spate of acquisitions in the sector in recent months.

Green bonds have been named one of the four instruments available to financial institutions to help ramp climate finance up to its $100 billion a year target.