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  • Conservation finance lender gets EU backing

    11 April 2017

    The EU's natural capital lending facility has made its first loan, lending Rewilding Europe Capital (REC), a social enterprise established in 2014 that speicalises-conservation and re-wilding projects, €6 million ($6.27 million).

  • GCF rehabilitating hydro is 'shameful' - NGO

    11 April 2017

    The Green Climate Fund's (GCF) decision to rehabilitate a Soviet era dam in Tajikistan has been labelled 'shameful' by one senior analyst.

  • Final winners revealed in Environmental Finance's Green Bond Awards

    11 April 2017

    The best innovations, intermediaries and banks that helped the market set fresh records in 2016 have been honoured in the final wave of the Green Bond Awards.

  • EU carbon market weekly update - 4 April 2017

    10 April 2017

    EU Allowances are subject to a mixed bag of price drivers this week, but there is a chance of adding to last week's gains, says Louis Redshaw

  • California carbon price jumps following judgment

    10 April 2017

    The price of carbon in California shot up 4% in a day following the state's Court of Appeal judgment that the floor price of the cap-and-trade programme auctions did not constitute a tax.

  • Green bond roundup - 10 April 2017

    10 April 2017

    CDL Properties has issued a SGD100 million ($71 million) green bond, the first from a Singapore-based entity.

  • Aviva joins Climate Neutral Now

    10 April 2017

    Aviva has become the first insurance company to join the UN's Climate Neutral Now campaign, committing to maintain its zero-carbon operations status.

  • World Bank passes $10bn milestone for green bond issuance

    10 April 2017

    The World Bank has released details of two bonds that it sold to Swedish insurance company Folksam last week, taking its total issuance to date beyond $10 billion.

  • Further Environmental Finance Green Bonds Awards winners announced

    10 April 2017

    The second wave of winners of Environmental Finance's Green Bond Awards hail the market's big issuers and innovators.

  • More than a third of insurers looking to increase ESG allocation

    07 April 2017

    More than a third, 38%, of insurers plan to increase their allocation to ESG strategies over the year, according to a survey by AXA Investment Managers (IM).