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Moody's upsizes its 2019 green bond prediction to more than $200bn
08 August 2019Moody's predicts green bond issuance to exceed $200 billion this year, following a record-breaking second quarter and first half of the year. It had earlier predicted the market to hit $200 billion in 2019.
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Green bond comment: August 2019 - Should a beef producer issue a sustainability bond?
08 August 2019A 'sustainable transition bond' issued by a Brazilian beef giant stuck in the craw of many sustainable investors. Peter Cripps ruminates on the issue
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Bonds round-up: BART, KfW, San Diego, Mitsui, IBRD, EDC, Ottawa
07 August 2019San Francisco BART raises $644m, KfW issues its first HK$ denominated green bond and more
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GPIF to buy ADB green bonds
07 August 2019The world’s largest pension fund has committed to purchase green bonds issued by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
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EU green bond standard ‘likely to kill’ second party opinions
07 August 2019The proposed EU Green Bond Standard (EU GBS) “is likely to kill the second party opinion format as we know it”, according to French investment bank Natixis CIB.
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Lombard Odier hires Kaminker
07 August 2019Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM) has recruited Christopher Kaminker for the newly created role of head of sustainable investment research & strategy.
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Pimco looks to emerging markets for sovereign green bonds
06 August 2019Fixed income investment giant Pimco has encouraged international financial institutions (IFIs) to ramp up support for emerging market sovereigns to issue green bonds.
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Winners of Environmental Finance’s Sustainable Investment Awards revealed
06 August 2019The winners of Environmental Finance’s inaugural Sustainable Investment Awards have been announced.
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KGAL exits five Spanish solar farms
06 August 2019German investment manager KGAL has sold two solar farms in Spain to Helia Renovables II, a fund managed by Spanish renewables investor Plenium Partners Asset Management, and will sell a further three to it in the last quarter of the year. The price of the sales was not disclosed.
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EU GBS-compatible Climate Bonds Standard gets CBI sign-off
05 August 2019An updated version of the Climate Bonds Standard framework has been published that acts as a ‘universal adaptor’ for international green debt standards including the EU’s Green Bond Standard (GBS).