Deals of the Year

• Deals of the Year 2017

  30 June 2017

  Environmental Finance's 10th annual Deals of the Year awards are all about opportunities – investments flowing into businesses that are aligned with the low-carbon economy or are part of solutions to the problem of climate change.

  

• Solar 2017: Vela Energy project bond

  30 June 2017

  Vela Energy's issue of the largest ever European solar photovoltaic (PV) project bond, which raised €404 million ($453 million), is a story of overcoming policy risk to tap into a market with great potential.

  

• Wind 2017: Khalladi Wind Project

  30 June 2017

  Developer Acwa Power's 120MW Khalladi Wind Project in Morocco will sell 80% of the power it produces to three large cement companies.

  

• Deals of the Year 2016

  23 March 2016

  As the renewables and other environmental markets mature, so they continue to innovate and break new ground.

  

• Catastrophe Risk 2016: PennUnion Re

  23 March 2016

  When Superstorm Sandy whipped the east coast of the US in 2012, Amtrak was among those that felt the pain.

• Sustainable forestry 2016: New Forests and Sampoerna Agro

  23 March 2016

  It is hoped that New Forests' joint venture in a sustainable rubber plantation in Indonesia will pave the way for further institutional investment in large-scale, sustainable forestry in the country.

• Bond 2016: Lightsource's Kingpin

  23 March 2016

  It's been a bumpy couple of years for UK solar, with the government phasing out existing subsidy regimes for more 'competitive' models, making further cuts to Feed-in Tariffs (FiTs) and implementing tighter restrictions on Renewable Obligation Certificates (ROCs).

• Carbon finance 2016: World Bank Pilot Auction Facility

  23 March 2016

  The World Bank's Pilot Auction Facility (PAF) of price guarantees for methane emission reductions was a worthy winner in the carbon finance category.

• M&A 2016: Nordex and Acciona Windpower

  23 March 2016

  Turbine maker Nordex always used to be seen as an acquisition target. But the German firm seized the initiative when it agreed to buy Acciona's wind turbine manufacturing arm, Acciona Wind Power (AWP), in October for €785 million ($880 million), in cash and shares.

• Personality of the Year 2016: Mark Carney

  23 March 2016

  2015 could be seen as the year in which mainstream investors began to wake up to the concept of carbon risk. Mark Carney was arguably the most influential protagonist in this movement.