News

• Denham Capital eyes Asian renewables in $200m partnership

  25 August 2015

  Private equity firm Denham Capital is committing $200 million to a new partnership to build and acquire energy assets in Asia.

• Banks agree to provide £1bn debt facility for London's 'super sewer'

  25 August 2015

  A debt facility of £1 billion ($1.6 billion) is being provided by six banks to the consortium of long-term investors that will finance and own a major new sewer to be built beneath the river Thames in London.

• ING Bank H1 sustainable lending increases to €20.9bn

  25 August 2015

  ING Bank has increased its sustainable lending for the first half of the year to €20.9 billion ($24.1 billion), an increase of 7% compared with the proceeding half year.

• National plans for 2030 carbon emissions are too weak, warn academics

  25 August 2015

  The national carbon reduction pledges announced ahead of the Paris climate summit are insufficient to keep global warming to safe levels by 2030, UK academics have warned.

• Green bond market still on-track for record-breaking year, says SEB

  24 August 2015

  The green bond market is on track for another record-breaking year, according to SEB, although it conceded that its previous estimate of $70 billion of issuance now looks "a bit optimistic".

• Dong makes 3GW rights acquisition UK offshore wind

  24 August 2015

  Danish energy giant Dong has acquired the rights to up to 3GW of wind farms off the coast of the UK.

• Elon Musk invests as Tesla raises $728m in latest share offering

  24 August 2015

  Elon Musk has purchased $20 million of shares in Tesla, the loss-making electric automobile company he runs, as it raised $728 million in its latest share offering.

• Inflection Point Capital to advise Norway's sovereign wealth fund

  24 August 2015

  Inflection Point Capital Management, a London-based sustainability advisory company, has secured a four-year consultancy contract to advise Norway's $870 billion sovereign wealth fund.

• Aligera added to Nasdaq Sustainable Bond list after acquiring Cicero second opinion

  24 August 2015

  Swedish renewable investment company Aligera has acquired a second opinion on its SEK500 million ($60.4 million) corporate bond, in a move that allowed it to be added to Nasdaq Stockholm's Sustainable Bond list.

• Africa's first grid-connected anaerobic digestion plant set to sell carbon credits to UK

  24 August 2015

  Supermarkets in the UK are expected to buy carbon credits from Africa's first grid-connected anaerobic digestion plant, which was opened last week.