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  • ISO to consider green bond standard

    03 May 2017

    The International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) is to consider setting up an international green bond standard, Environmental Finance has learned.

  • Queensland eyes green bond that could help Great Barrier Reef conservation

    17 February 2017

    The State of Queensland is gearing up to issue a certified green bond that lists conservation of the Great Barrier Reef among its use of proceeds.

  • 50 shades of green bonds - and 50 ways of assessing them

    29 December 2016

    Ratings agencies have weighed into the green bond market in the past year, adding to the raft of existing tools for assessing bonds. Where is this increasingly crowded marketplace heading, asks Peter Cripps

  • NRW Bank to issue fourth green bond

    10 November 2016

    NRW Bank, the development agency of the German North Rhine-Westphalia federal state, has mandated Bank of America Merrill Lynch and DZ Bank as joint-lead managers for a 10-year green bond.

  • Many more green bonds likely from India, says Axis bank

    06 June 2016

    There will "probably be many more green bonds out of India" said Shikha Sharma, CEO of Axis bank, one of the country's leading private sector banks.