Archive

  • Green bond comment: November

    07 December 2016

    November has been a blockbuster month for the green bond market, with multiple record breaking issues.

  • GIB issues first Green Bond appraisal

    16 November 2016

    Moroccan lender Banque Centrale Populaire (BCP) is the first green bond issuer to use the Green Investment Bank's (GIB) Green Impact Report appraisal.

  • Hannon Armstrong raises $77m from latest share sale

    10 November 2016

    Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI) has raised approximately $76.9 million, after expenses, from its latest public equity offering.

  • IETA and CMIA press for airlines to use project-level REDD+ credits

    10 November 2016

    Two leading trade associations have come together to lobby for carbon credits from small-scale forest protection projects to be used in the forthcoming international carbon market for airlines – the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (Corsia).

  • EF BRIEFS: Hannon Armstrong, Enercorn

    04 November 2016

    US clean energy investment firm Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI) is looking to raise approximately $70 million from the sale of 3.5 million shares.

  • Banks pledge support for UAE's sustainability goals

    26 October 2016

    Eight banks have committed to support the sustainable development goals of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) by signing the Dubai Declaration on Sustainable Finance.

  • EF BRIEFS: Duke Energy, Statkraft, NEP

    09 September 2016

    Norway's sovereign wealth fund has divested its holdings in US utility Duke Energy, pointing to the company's risk of "severe environmental damage".

  • Mexico City to issue green bond for airport

    08 September 2016

    Mexico City is gearing up to issue a 'first of its kind' green bond to help finance the construction of its new airport.

  • 90 steps forward, two steps back

    17 August 2016

    With the flagship markets of the EU and California in difficulties, advocates of carbon trading are pinning their hopes on a slew of new markets, particularly China and Canada. Graham Cooper reports

  • EF BRIEFS: New impacts consultancy, BSI on low-carbon infrastructure, AIR Worldwide

    18 July 2016

    A new consultancy service has been launched to help companies measure and mitigate their environmental and social impacts.