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  • Voting begins for EF's Deals of the Year awards

    25 April 2018

    A new category of 'Loan of the Year' has been added to Environmental Finance Deals of the Year awards.

  • Banking on a changing climate? Part 2

    13 April 2018

    Climate change poses a significant threat to banks. How big is their exposure to climate risks, and what are they doing to mitigate them, asks Peter Cripps. The second part of this two-part feature explores physical risks and liability risks

  • RobecoSAM recommends water investments to address SDGs

    05 March 2018

    Investing in water companies is an effective way of optimising contributions to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to Swiss investment firm RobecoSAM.

  • Chinese green bond market needs to grow further

    09 February 2018

    Green bond issuance from China has to grow tenfold in just three years if the country is to have a large slice of the $1 trillion target per year by 2020, a report has argued.

  • Mexican and Canadian pension funds buy $1.35bn of Enel renewables

    11 October 2017

    Canadian institutional investor Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (La Caisse) and a consortium of Mexican companies have paid $1.35 billion for a majority share in eight Enel wind and solar assets.

  • GIP takes 50% stake in second offshore wind farm

    09 August 2017

    Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) of the US has agreed to pay Dong Energy €1.17 billion ($1.37 billion) for a 50% stake in the Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm.

  • JP Morgan commits to $200bn clean financing by 2025

    28 July 2017

    US bank JP Morgan plans to invest $200 billion in clean financing projects by 2025, the largest commitment of its kind by a global financial institution, it said.

  • Initial Public Offering 2017: Dong Energy

    30 June 2017

    Danish utility provider Dong Energy's initial public offering (IPO) of its shares on Nasdaq Copenhagen, in June 2016, was the largest European stock market listing for five years, raising DKK 19.7 billion ($2.6 billion).

  • Deals of the Year 2017

    30 June 2017

    Environmental Finance's 10th annual Deals of the Year awards are all about opportunities – investments flowing into businesses that are aligned with the low-carbon economy or are part of solutions to the problem of climate change.

  • Macquarie adds to renewables portfolio with another acquisition

    05 June 2017

    Macquarie Capital has further boosted its presence in the renewable energy sector with the acquisition of RES Japan, for an undisclosed sum.