News

• Utility returns to green bond market, with benchmark issue

  15 April 2016

  A utility has returned to the green bond market, after pricing €1 billion ($1.1 billion) of notes, Environmental Finance has learned.

• Voting opens for the Annual Voluntary Carbon Market Rankings

  15 April 2016

  For the seventh year, Environmental Finance is conducting its annual rankings of the voluntary carbon markets.

• Developing countries get help implementing Paris emissions targets

  15 April 2016

  A project to help countries measure their progress towards the emission reduction goals agreed at the UN Paris climate summit in December, has been launched with funding provided by charitable foundations and two European governments.

• Gold Standard announces first deals under version 3.0

  14 April 2016

  The Gold Standard certification organisation has announced the first two transactions under the third iteration of its carbon credit standards, even though the revised standards have yet to be finalised.

• SunEdison defaults on convertible bond, say analysts

  14 April 2016

  Troubled renewable energy giant SunEdison is in 'technical default' on a convertible bond, according to US research firm CreditSights.

• Greencoat UK Wind plans £300m equity raise

  14 April 2016

  Greencoat UK Wind revealed plans to sell up to £300 million ($430 million) of shares over the coming year, as it eyes an "attractive" pool of assets that it expects to come up for grabs.

• EF BRIEFS: Allianz, Fortum, Morrissey & Figueres

  13 April 2016

  Allianz aims to double the size of its renewable energy and infrastructure portfolio to about €14 billion ($16 billion) "in the medium term", a spokeswoman said.

• Investors representing $6trn back climate change resolution at ExxonMobil

  13 April 2016

  Investors representing $6 trillion of assets under management (AUM) have thrown their weight behind a shareholder resolution demanding that ExxonMobil disclose the impact of climate change policy on its business.

• London stock exchange appoints David Harris to new sustainability position

  13 April 2016

  David Harris has been appointed to head up London Stock Exchange Group's sustainability efforts in addition to his duties at FTSE Russell.

• Size matters in carbon market link-ups, researchers say

  13 April 2016

  The economic benefits that would result from linking emissions trading regimes will vary significantly, depending on the size of the linked markets and their sensitivity to economic shocks, according to new academic research.