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  • Green Bonds Round Up - 18 January 17

    18 January 2017

    Danish public sector lender KommuneKredit is gearing up to launch a benchmark-sized euro-denominated green bond in the second quarter of this year.

  • Green Bond Round Up - 11 January 2017

    11 January 2017

    Yunnan Water has issued a privately placed RMB1.8 billion ($260 million) green bond.

  • Showing leadership in the Canadian dollar green bond market

    11 January 2017

    Ontario is committed to developing the Canadian dollar green bond market, while also enhancing impact reporting, project selection and transparency. Michael Manning explains

  • Cicero is biggest second opinion provider in 2016 - despite bumper year for Sustainalytics

    06 January 2017

    The Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research Oslo (Cicero) was the biggest second opinion provider in the green bond market in 2016, but Sustainalytics is breathing down its neck after signing up more new business than any of its competitors.

  • KBN prices third green bond

    20 October 2016

    Norwegian public sector lender Kommunalbanken Norge (KBN) has priced a $500 million green bond, in its third foray into the market.

  • EDF prices benchmark euro denominated green bond

    06 October 2016

    EDF has priced its third and largest green bond, raising €1.75 billion ($1.95 billion).

  • EF BRIEFS: Washington State, NextEnergy, Entra, Societe Generale, Los Angeles

    21 September 2016

    Washington state's long-awaited carbon market will begin next year, the state's Department of Ecology has confirmed.

  • S&P Global Ratings develops green bond and ESG assessment tools

    09 September 2016

    S&P Global Ratings is developing a green bond evaluation tool, making it the latest in a series of players to launch a product to help investors quantify the green credentials of an issue.

  • MuniFin gives better rates for green loans

    06 September 2016

    Finnish public sector lender Municipality Finance (MuniFin) has said it is providing cheaper loans for green projects in a bid to build a loan book to issue a green bond against.

  • Swedish property company returns to green bond market

    25 August 2016

    A subsidiary of Swedish real estate group Fabege has returned to the market with is second green bond, raising SEK460 million ($55 million).