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  • Ground-breaking BlackRock public-private EM climate fund exceeds target

    02 November 2021

    BlackRock has announced its flagship public-private financing Emerging Market (EM) climate infrastructure investment fund has raised more than $670 million...

  • Tokyu Fudosan issues sustainability-linked bond amid ground-breaking ESG finance plan

    06 October 2021

    Japanese real estate firm Tokyu Fudosan has raised JPY10 billion ($90 million) from a sustainability-linked bond...

  • Green bonds round-up, 6 February

    06 February 2019

    Bank of America has raised $500 million from what it said is the first social bond by a US bank.

  • Green bonds round-up, 16 January

    16 January 2019

    Italian energy company Enel has returned to the green bond market, with its third such deal, raising €1 billion ($1.1 billion).

  • Green Bonds round-up, 12 December

    12 December 2018

    Swedish bank SEB has predicted that total green bond issuance could reach $240 billion in 2019, despite the market moving "sideways" this year.

  • Green bonds round-up - 24 Oct - 17 new deals

    24 October 2018

    Royal Schiphol Group, the owner of Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, has priced a green bond worth €500 million ($576 million), making it the first European airport to issue green-labelled notes.

  • Three groups dominate Japanese fossil fuel finance, report says

    11 September 2018

    Three financial institutions have been the driving motor powering Japan's fossil fuel industry, according to a study by Dutch research company Profundo.

  • Green bonds round-up, 5 September 2018

    05 September 2018

    German real estate bank, Deutsche Hypothekenbank, has issued its second €500 million ($580 million) green Pfandbrief.

  • Green bond round-up, 15 August 2018

    15 August 2018

    New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is set to return to the green bond market with its eighth issue, and its first of 2018.

  • 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.