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  • Swedish municipality issues SEK750m green bond

    14 October 2014

    The municipality of Örebro in Sweden has issued a five-year SEK750 million ($104 million) bond to fund a series of environmental projects. It will pay a coupon of 1.1925%.

  • The thinking behind Amundi's low-carbon push

    14 October 2014

    Amundi's Frédéric Samama talks to Sophie Robinson-Tillett about the firm's decarbonisation pledge, its planned low-carbon fund and how investors should be responding to climate change

  • Mark Carney says climate risks could make most oil reserves 'unburnable'

    14 October 2014

    Bank of England governor Mark Carney has warned that "the vast majority of oil reserves are unburnable" if the world is to avoid catastrophic climate change.

  • Regulators urged to demand better disclosure of climate risks [UPDATED]

    14 October 2014

    Securities regulators should demand that oil, gas and coal companies stress-test the potential impact of climate-related risks on their business, says the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI).

  • Ecotricity and Skanska in £500m wind partnership

    14 October 2014

    Ecotricity and Skanska have formed a £500 million ($802 million) joint venture to build wind farms in the UK.

  • MidAmerican boosts investments in Iowa wind projects to $6bn

    13 October 2014

    MidAmerican Energy is to commit an additional $280 million to two wind farms in Iowa, taking its total investment in wind energy in the state above $6 billion.

  • John Laing renewables fund secures £50m credit facility

    13 October 2014

    John Laing Environmental Assets Group (JLEN) has agreed a three-year £50 million ($80 million) revolving credit facility with HSBC and Dutch bank NIBC.

  • Impax reports 25% growth in AUM

    13 October 2014

    Impax Asset Management, the London-listed environmental fund manager, has reported a 25% increase in "assets under management and advisory" (AUM) for the year ended 30 September.

  • Brazil's VIS buys Swiss cleantech finance firm and moves to Geneva

    13 October 2014

    Resource efficiency investor VIS has acquired Swiss firm Advanta Capital of Switzerland, a country it describes as an "emerging hub for sustainable finance".

  • Statkraft buys out Duke in Scottish wind farm

    10 October 2014

    Statkraft has bought Duke Energy's equity in a 35MW wind farm in the UK, giving it full ownership of the project.