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Under scrutiny: green bond impact reporting
01 July 2015Issuers' reports on the environmental impact of their green bonds range from a few paragraphs on hard-to-find webpages to 80-page documents. But, given the costs and assumptions involved, some question whether more is necessarily better. Graham Cooper reports
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US REIT in $500m 'milestone' green bond
26 June 2015A US real estate firm has issued a green bond in what underwriters say is a "milestone" for the country's corporate market.
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Marymount University to issue $65.5m green bond
26 June 2015Marymount University in Virginia is set to become the latest US academic organisation to launch a green bond, after it announced plans for a $65.5 million issue.
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Quotes of the Quarter
26 June 2015Environmental Finance takes a look back at some of the quotes that defined the second quarter of 2015.
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UK GIB to devise green bond rating system
26 June 2015The UK's Green Investment Bank (GIB) is to devise a system to help rate green bonds and compare their environmental benefits.
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Gothenburg's third green bond 'heavily oversubscribed'
24 June 2015The City of Gothenburg has this week issued its third green bond.
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Strong growth in green bond market expected in H2
23 June 2015Investors and underwriters are confident the green bond market will show healthy growth this year, thanks to increased issuance from corporates, municipalities and emerging economies, and a maturing market infrastructure.
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Redefining additionality with respect to green bonds
22 June 2015Definitions of additionality pre-date the current green bond market and are generally understood to reference incentives or markets that are enabling something to happen that otherwise would not.
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Toyota issues $1.25bn asset-backed green bond
19 June 2015Toyota has issued its second asset-backed green bond, this time for $1.25 billion.
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Financials become biggest corporate green bond issuer
19 June 2015Banks have emerged as the biggest corporate issuers of green bonds after a spate of issues this year helped the sector overtake utilities, according to a report.