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Green Bond round-up – 10 April: Senvion, LG Chem, France's GROAT, ocean plastic bond, Toyota, Terna, EIB's new CAB, Peru, Luxembourg links with China
10 April 2019South Korea-based chemicals manufacturer LG Chem has issued green bonds worth $1.56 billion to help finance production of electric vehicle (EV) batteries.
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Green bond round-up: ICO, Klabin, Reykjavik Energy, Midsummer, IBRD, Fabege, Housing New Zealand, Argosy Property and Vasakronan
03 April 2019Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO), a state-owned Spanish bank, has issued a €500 million ($562 million) green note that matures in 2024.
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Winners of Environmental Finance Bond Awards 2019 honoured by market
02 April 2019The Environmental Finance Bond Awards 2019 feature several repeat winners alongside many new names, as 13 extra categories were added this year in response to the rapid growth of social and sustainability bonds.
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Eurosif likely to set EU action plan as focus of new direction
22 March 2019The European Sustainable Investment Forum (Eurosif) plans to mould its new strategy around implementation of the EU’s Sustainable Finance Action Plan, Environmental Finance has learned.
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Wheb wins sustainable equity mandate for UK local governments
18 March 2019Wheb Asset Management has been chosen by West Midlands Pension Fund to manage an active global sustainable equity mandate under a multi-provider framework agreement for authorities in the UK's Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
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ESG scores may never standardise, argues LGIM
01 March 2019“We may never reach a point where environmental, social and governance (ESG) scores across providers are standardised or uniform”, a Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) index specialist has argued.
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Amundi launches new responsible equity ETF for emerging markets
05 February 2019Amundi has added to its range of 'socially responsible investing' (SRI) exchange traded funds (ETFs), with a new product tracking the MSCI Emerging Markets (EM) SRI index.
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Investors and corporates join forces in new plastics initiative
31 October 2018More than 15 major institutional investors and organisations representing several hundred companies have joined forces in support of a new initiative "to eradicate plastic waste and pollution at source".
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Green bond round-up, 19 September
19 September 2018DZ Bank is planning to raise €250 million ($300 million) by issuing its first labelled green bond.
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People Moves: CISL, RCG, ATP, CalPERS, Global Wind Service and Earth Capital Partners
31 August 2018Martin Porter and Ursula Woodburn have been appointed to senior roles in Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership's (CISL) policy team, to strengthen its European presence in the Brussels office.