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  • 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, 8 August 2018

    08 August 2018

    SEB observes ‘considerable’ slowdown in July issuance

  • Green bonds round-up, 25 July

    25 July 2018

    The City of Toronto has completed a green bond issue worth C$300 million ($228 million), becoming the second city in Canada to issue green-labelled notes, following Ottawa's C$102 million issue in November.

  • Green bond round-up, 25 May 2018

    25 May 2018

    Electricity transmission operator TenneT successfully launched its eighth green bond, raising €1.25 billion ($1.5 billion).

  • Green bond round-up, 2 August 2017

    02 August 2017

    Tadau Energy, a renewables company, has issued what is claimed to be Malaysia's first 'green' sukuk.

  • HSBC tightens policy on palm oil financing

    21 February 2017

    HSBC has pledged to tighten its policy on financing palm oil companies, to help improve the sustainability of the industry.

  • Opic backs 100MW concentrated solar project in South Africa

    21 October 2015

    The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (Opic) – a US development finance organisation – has committed $400 million of debt financing to support the development of a 100MW concentrated solar power (CSP) project in South Africa.

  • Africa's first grid-connected anaerobic digestion plant set to sell carbon credits to UK

    24 August 2015

    Supermarkets in the UK are expected to buy carbon credits from Africa's first grid-connected anaerobic digestion plant, which was opened last week.

  • Abengoa and Shikun & Binui secure $1bn financing for Israeli solar plant

    20 July 2015

    Abengoa and Israeli global infrastructure group, Shikun & Binui, have secured $1 billion in non-recourse financing, for the construction of an Israeli solar-thermal plant.

  • Why the Paris climate summit will boost REDD+

    20 May 2015

    An agreement in Paris could build on the achievements of the Warsaw Pact for REDD+ Action, and could prove a game changer for forestry, argues Mariama Vendramini