Archive

  • Winners revealed in Environmental Finance's Bond Awards 2020

    30 March 2020

    Environmental Finance's Bond Awards were expanded again this year to reflect the growth and evolution of the green, social and sustainability (GSS) bond markets and to include the nascent GSS loan market.

  • Lombard Odier/AIM impact bond fund reveals environmental, social impacts

    10 October 2018

    The Global Climate Bond fund, launched by Lombard Odier Investment Managers in partnership with Affirmative Investment Management (AIM), helped prevent emissions equivalent to 78,431 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) a year in 2017, as well as supporting 75MW of renewable energy and the treatment of 6,893m3 of wastewater.

  • GBPs appoint first Chinese member of executive committee

    15 June 2017

    Bank of China has become the first Chinese player to join the executive committee of the Green Bond Principles (GBPs).

  • KommuneKredit joins Scandi green bond party

    24 May 2017

    Danish institution KommuneKredit has priced its inaugural green bond, making it the last of Scandinavian local government funding agencies to tap the market.

  • 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.

  • Danske Bank develops price differentiation for green loan

    21 November 2016

    Danske Bank has extended its first green loan with 'improved terms' to a real estate client, Fabege, because it is financing green buildings which it believes have a lower level of risk.

  • Finnish lender on target to issue benchmark inaugural green bond in Q3

    06 June 2016

    A Finnish lender is gearing up to issue its inaugural benchmark green bond at the end of the third quarter.

  • Munifin set to issue €500m green bond in Q3

    17 February 2016

    Finnish public sector lender, Municipality Finance (Munifin), is set to issue its inaugural green bond, aiming to raise some €500 million ($557.9 million).