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Sustainalytics sees regulations driving demand for green bond reviews
02 March 2018Regulatory developments are likely to spur further strong growth in demand for external reviews of green bonds, particularly in Asia and Europe, according to Sustainalytics.
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US firms failing to back emission reduction talk with targets, says Ceres
02 March 2018More than half of the largest US companies with commitments to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have failed to set quantitative targets to achieve reductions, a study by Ceres shows.
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BBVA pledges €100bn of green finance, including sustainability bonds
01 March 2018BBVA has pledged to mobilise €100 billion ($121.7 billion) in green finance by 2025, in a move that would also see the Spanish bank issue its own sustainability bonds.
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UBP expands ESG range with new fixed income fund
01 March 2018Union Bancaire Privee (UBP) has launched a new environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy focused on emerging market investment-grade corporate issuers.
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Hong Kong government plans HK$100bn green bond programme
01 March 2018Hong Kong is planning a green bond issuance programme "with a borrowing ceiling of HK$100 billion ($13 billion)", Financial Secretary Paul Chan announced in his budget speech.
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Delivering two-way investor confidence
01 March 2018Do governments need to re-wire their own institutions to play their part in the low carbon investment agenda? asks Kirsty Hamilton
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Boralex seals €136 million deal to build five French wind farms
01 March 2018Canadian renewables firm Boralex has attracted €136 million ($166 million) of financing to construct five wind farms in France, which have a combined output capacity of 112MW.
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AP4 increases low-carbon commitments by SEK13bn
01 March 2018The Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP4) said its low-carbon index allocations now amount to almost one third of its entire global equity portfolio, having increased its commitments by SEK 12.6 billion ($1.9 billion) in 2017.
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Green bond round-up, 28 February 2018
28 February 2018Growthpoint Properties is set to become the first South African corporate green bond issuer.
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Belgium plans to grow sovereign green bond to €10bn
28 February 2018A €4.5 billion ($5.5 billion) sovereign green bond issued by Belgium this week is expected to grow to a size of about €10 billion within four years, the Belgian Debt Agency said.