News

• Credit Agricole, BNP and Natixis fund world's largest solar project

  25 May 2017

  The world's largest solar photovoltaic (PV) project, at 1.2GW when operational, has received $900 million in funding including loans from Credit Agricole, BNP Paribas and Natixis as part of a banking syndicate.

• Clean energy community 'addicted to aid', says project developer

  25 May 2017

  There is a big "addicted to aid" problem among the community promoting low-carbon energy, a leading developer of such projects told a World Bank conference.

• 'Investment-grade' carbon pricing for power sector launched

  25 May 2017

  CDP – formerly known as Carbon Disclosure Project – and low-carbon business coalition We Mean Business have partnered to create an "investment-grade" carbon pricing range for the power sector.

• Quantitative easing could help fund GCF, says FX specialist

  25 May 2017

  Tools used to combat the global financial crisis could help tackle the challenge of climate change, a State Street foreign exchange specialist believes.

• Green bond round-up, 24 May 2017

  24 May 2017

  Polish bank Zachodni WBK has issued €137 million ($153.8 million) green bond, in a private placement with the International Finance Corporation (IFC).

• Shell criticised for climate votes at AGM

  24 May 2017

  Royal Dutch Shell has failed to sufficiently disclose what it is doing to mitigate climate change at its annual general meeting (AGM), said UK sustainable asset manager and Shell shareholder Rathbone Greenbank Investments.

• KommuneKredit joins Scandi green bond party

  24 May 2017

  Danish institution KommuneKredit has priced its inaugural green bond, making it the last of Scandinavian local government funding agencies to tap the market.

• Data is 'biggest challenge currently to ESG integration'

  24 May 2017

  A lack of robust data is currently the biggest obstacle to environmental, social and governance (ESG) integration, according to a survey by BNP Paribas.

• Allianz makes fifth tax equity investment in US wind

  24 May 2017

  Allianz Capital Partners (ACP), the alternative investment arm of the German insurer, has secured its fifth US wind farm tax equity investment in a little more than a year.

• Populism threatens action on climate change, warns Ieta

  24 May 2017

  The rise of populist political movements around the world "are a threat to action on climate change," according to the International Emissions Trading Association (Ieta).