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  • Statoil sets up clean energy company to exploit 'growth opportunities'

    14 May 2015

    Statoil has created a low-carbon energy business to pursue "new business and growth opportunities".

  • LA plans $183m green bond for waste water

    14 May 2015

    Los Angeles is to become the latest US municipality to tap the green bond market.

  • Insurers see the gold in green

    14 May 2015

    Green bonds are looking increasingly attractive to insurance companies which want to meet their risk and return objectives while producing a positive environmental or social impact. But there are concerns about the definition and capacity of the market, as Mark Nicholls explains

  • Abengoa Yield in $670m share placement for solar

    13 May 2015

    Abengoa Yield (ABY) has sold more than 20 million new shares to help it buy solar assets from its parent company, in a deal worth $669 million.

  • How to help the green bond market grow

    13 May 2015

    The market needs to embrace general purpose bonds from 'pureplay' green companies, as well as allowing non-clean companies to issue green bonds if they are in transition to a greener business model, argues Ulrik Ross

  • Eurosif proposes sustainability as 6th pillar of EU Capital Markets Union

    13 May 2015

    Sustainability should be added to the proposed principals behind the EU's Capital Markets Union (CMU) initiative.

  • NRG Yield stock split boosts equity finance capacity by $20bn

    13 May 2015

    US yieldco NRG Yield is to introduce a one-for-one stock split after the close of trading tomorrow (14 May) to help it raise more equity capital.

  • Body behind Dutch/German grid launches 'multi-billion' green bond programme

    13 May 2015

    Dutch energy body TenneT has launched a green bond programme, which it says could be "a multi-billion euro green investment opportunity".

  • Amundi launches three index-linked low-carbon funds

    12 May 2015

    Amundi has created three funds to track a low-carbon index from MSCI.

  • Sustainability accounting project approaches key milestone

    12 May 2015

    Non-financial accounting standards for all major industrial sectors should be available within 12 months, said the California-based Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB).