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  • News round-up: Federal Reserve joins NGFS, BNP's energy transition fund, Poseidon Principles ... and more

    16 December 2020

  • NYK receives Yen2bn green loan from Taiyo Life Insurance

    02 January 2019

    Japanese shipping company Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) has received a ¥2 billion ($18.29 million) green loan from Taiyo Life Insurance to finance the building of a methanol-fuelled chemical tanker.

  • Green bond round-up, 9 May

    09 May 2018

    BBVA has tapped the green bond market with the largest ever green bond issue by a Eurozone financial institution.

  • NYK ready to issue shipping's first green bond

    17 April 2018

    Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) will become the world's first shipping company to issue a labelled green bond, hot on the heels of the industry's commitment to halve carbon emissions by 2050.

  • Shipping's historic pledge saluted but "could have gone further"

    16 April 2018

    A firm commitment from the shipping industry to cut emissions – the first from the sector – has been welcomed by industry observers but some believe it could have gone even further.

  • IMO lobbies against inclusion of shipping in EU ETS

    11 January 2017

    The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has added its weight to the campaign against plans to include shipping in the European Union's Emissions Trading System (EU ETS).

  • Energy efficient ships an 'attractive investment opportunity', says bank

    27 June 2013

    Investors are increasingly seeing retrofitting ships with fuel-saving technologies as an attractive opportunity, according to a bank, which is developing a finance mechanism for the activity.