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  • China issues $6bn of green bonds in one week

    25 July 2016

    Three Chinese issuers came to the market with CNY40.25 billion ($6.03 billion) of domestic green bonds last week, continuing a strong year for the country's green bond market.

  • Chinese bank issues largest international green bond

    06 July 2016

    One of China's largest state-owned commercial banks has issued the largest green bond to date in the international markets.

  • Green bonds in Asia - the challenges and opportunities

    27 June 2016

    The take-up of green bonds in Asia has been frustratingly slow, and there is no sign yet that companies are embracing the asset class en masse, argues Vicky Münzer-Jones

  • EF BRIEFS: Dong Energy, TenneT, TerraForm Power, Yingli, KfW

    13 May 2016

    Danish utility and offshore wind specialist Dong Energy expects to float this summer, it has announced.

  • Utility returns to green bond market, with benchmark issue

    15 April 2016

    A utility has returned to the green bond market, after pricing €1 billion ($1.1 billion) of notes, Environmental Finance has learned.

  • BAML tops green bond underwriter's league table, but Chinese banks storm top five

    11 April 2016

    Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) regained its title as the leading underwriter in the green bond market in the first quarter of 2016, although Chinese underwriters are now breathing down its neck.

  • EF BRIEFS: CalPERS, Chinese green bonds, Massachusetts Water

    29 March 2016

    Task force to adopt list of states with similar rules, clearing the way for 2017 take off

  • Shanghai Pudong returns to green bond market

    23 March 2016

    The Shanghai Pudong Development Bank (SPDB) is set to tap the green bond market again, just two months after its mammoth inaugural issue.

  • China trials green bond segment on Shanghai stock exchange

    18 March 2016

    China has made another move to develop its green bond market, launching a pilot initiative via the Shanghai stock exchange.

  • China to see wave of corporate green bonds, says HSBC

    04 March 2016

    A spate of green bonds from Chinese banks this year has paved the way for a "wave" of corporate issuance from the country, according to HSBC.