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  • Bioenergy standards proposed

    25 March 2015

    Bioenergy standards for projects eligible for funding from green bonds have been released, and cover social impacts as well as environmental ones.

  • Chinese analysts call for differential pricing for green bonds

    25 March 2015

    Policy-makers should ensure green debt products enjoy a price advantage over conventional debt, to encourage the growth of a green bond market in China, analysts say.

  • Green bonds face key year

    25 March 2015

    The green bond market is at a critical juncture, says Peter Cripps.

  • Exim India's $500m green bond more than 3-times oversubscribed

    25 March 2015

    The Export-Import Bank of India (Exim India) has issued the first dollar-denominated green bond out of India.

  • UK's Green Investment Bank eyes overseas projects

    25 March 2015

    The UK's pioneering Green Investment Bank (GIB) is to undertake a £200 million ($297 million) pilot programme of international investments.

  • French recycling firm issues €480m green bond

    25 March 2015

    A French recycling company has issued a €480 million ($526 million) green bond to help refinance its assets.

  • S&P calls for more transparency in green bonds market

    25 March 2015

    The growing number of participants in the green bond market brings new risks and heightens the need for more transparency, rating agency Standard & Poor's has warned.

  • GIB and Ireland's ESB back £190m UK biomass plant

    24 March 2015

    The UK's Green Investment Bank (GIB) is partnering with Ireland's Electricity Supply Board (ESB) as equity investors in a £190 million ($283 million) biomass power project in the port of Tilbury, near London.

  • South African pension fund in debt and equity deals for solar

    24 March 2015

    South African pension fund manager, Public Investment Corporation (PIC), has invested in two major solar projects in the country.

  • Infographic: The US coal crash

    24 March 2015

    The US coal markets have been knocked by a combination of cheaper renewables, rising construction costs, and the shale gas revolution, argues a report by thinktank the Carbon Tracker Initiative.