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How carbon markets can improve air quality and health
27 October 2023Clean cookstoves can help deliver eight of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, including poverty reduction, improved health, the empowerment of women and girls, and sustainable forest management, writes Chris McKinney
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KKR Global Impact fund snaps up stake in Spanish training firm
31 July 2020Private equity firm KKR has acquired a majority stake in a Spanish vocational training company as part of its Global Impact fund.
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Green bond round-up, 26 September 2018
26 September 2018The Asian Development Bank has issued a $750 million green bond – its first benchmark transaction denominated in USD since August last year.
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Boralex secures C$259m to fund wind farm acquisitions
12 July 2018Boralex, Canada's largest independent producer of wind power, has raised C$258.8 million ($196 million) in equity finance to fund its acquisition of Invenergy's stake in a 201MW portfolio of wind farms in Quebec.
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GIB and Salix lend to UK's biggest non-PFI streetlighting project
24 October 2016The UK's Green Investment Bank (GIB) has made a £10.2 million ($12.5 million) loan to a municipal authority to part-fund the biggest non-private finance initiative (PFI) streetlighting project in the country to date.
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Platina announces two renewables refinancings
18 May 2016Private equity firm Platina Energy Partners has refinanced a £28 million ($40 million) wind portfolio and a €50 million ($56 million) solar portfolio.