News

  • NRW roadshows '€500m' green bond

    21 October 2014

    NRW.Bank is roadshowing a green bond that could raise €500 million ($638 million) – twice as much as its inaugural issue last year.

  • Risk-sharing instruments get approval from Green Climate Fund

    21 October 2014

    The UN's Green Climate Fund has approved the use of financial guarantees and other risk-sharing instruments that it believes will help leverage private capital in support of the fund.

  • Mellon Capital and McKnight Foundation in $100m lower carbon strategy

    21 October 2014

    Mellon Capital has attracted $100 million of funding from a US foundation for a new strategy tilted towards companies with lower carbon emissions.

  • Wind power installations seen rising 14% this year

    21 October 2014

    Global wind energy capacity is expected to grow by around 14% this year to reach 363GW, according to a report from the main industry association.

  • HASI makes $144m wind investment

    21 October 2014

    Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI) has invested $144 million in a portfolio of 10 operating US wind projects owned by JP Morgan.

  • Prudential backs UK tidal project with 'up to £100m'

    20 October 2014

    Insurance company Prudential will invest up to £100 million ($161 million) in a 320MW tidal energy project in Wales

  • Stock exchanges expand role in promoting sustainability

    20 October 2014

    More than 40% of stock exchanges now offer at least one index integrating social and/or environmental issues, according to a UN study.

  • AP2 divests from 20 'seriously risky' fossil-fuel companies

    20 October 2014

    The SEK265 billion fund is moving its money out of 20 firms – 12 in coal and eight in oil and gas production – following what it called a "comprehensive risk analysis" of its holdings.

  • Foresight equity increase hit by stock market turbulence

    17 October 2014

    Foresight Solar Fund has raised just over £60 million ($97 million) from a placing and offer of new shares which it had hoped might raise £100 million to complete two acquisitions.

  • Italian pure-play firm issues 8.125%, six-year green bond

    17 October 2014

    An Italian company specialising in environmental sustainability has issued a €15 million ($19 million) green bond.