News

• FTSE Russell and Johannesburg Stock Exchange to create new ESG indexes

  03 June 2015

  A new environmental, social and governance (ESG) index series will be created through a collaboration between London-based global index provider FTSE Russell and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE).

• Baltic renewables firm issues €50m green bond

  03 June 2015

  The market has seen its first green bond from a Baltic issuer.

• Green bond industry groups turn spotlight on property sector

  03 June 2015

  Two reports aiming to establish best practice among green bond issuers in the real estate sector have been published by separate industry groups.

• World's first ETF for yieldcos launched

  03 June 2015

  The world's first exchange-traded fund (ETF) dedicated to yieldcos has been launched in a sign of the asset class's growing maturity.

• ABN Amro issues €500m green bond for real estate

  03 June 2015

  ABN Amro has "set a new standard for the market" with its €500 million ($557 million) green bond.

• World Bank to issue 100th green bond

  02 June 2015

  The World Bank is to issue its 100th green bond – an equity-linked note for retail investors in the US.

• Camco trims losses, reduces carbon exposure

  01 June 2015

  Camco Clean Energy halved its losses in 2014 and has further reduced its exposure to the carbon market.

• Oil firms demand worldwide carbon pricing in open letter

  01 June 2015

  A group of six oil companies have called for the introduction of a global carbon price as part of "ambitious policy frameworks" to help tackle climate change, in an open letter to world leaders.

• Clean Power Plan could lead to stranded assets, inter-state trading

  01 June 2015

  The proposed US Clean Power Plan could leave some coal-fired power plants 'stranded' and lead to inter-state trading of emission reductions in the western states, experts said.

• Environmental Markets acquires CTX European operations

  29 May 2015

  European Environmental Markets (EEM), a London-based company set up in February, is to take over the European operations of Carbon Trade Exchange (CTX).