Archive

  • EF BRIEFS: Suzlon, Enel Green Power, Appaloosa, SunEdison, Vivint, Spanish auction

    15 January 2016

    Indian renewables firm Suzlon has secured INR23 billion ($344 million) from existing investors to help it ramp up its operations.

  • New Forests in sustainable Indonesian rubber deal

    23 December 2015

    Forestry investment manager New Forests has invested in a rubber plantation in Indonesia, in a deal it says will pave the way for more institutional investments in large-scale, sustainable forestry in the country.

  • COP Blog: Parlez-vous Californien? Lessons from California's Forest Carbon Programme

    26 November 2015

    If negotiators at the Paris climate summit want to scale up investment in forestry, they could look to the West coast of the US for a positive example, says MaryKate Bullen

  • Trade in forest-based carbon credits reaches record high

    05 November 2015

    The value of forest-based carbon credits traded last year soared 17% to a record $257 million from $219 million in 2013, according to Ecosystem Marketplace.

  • EU's clean energy policies claim more coal victims

    03 September 2015

    Environmental regulations and changes to renewable energy incentives have been blamed for the likely closure of a major UK power station and the ejection of a leading German electricity generator from a benchmark stock index.

  • Rayonier eases interest burden of joint venture with Phaunos

    10 August 2015

    Rayonier, a major US timberland investor, has agreed to inject about $160 million from an existing term loan facility to pay off the debts of the Matariki Forestry Group, its New Zealand joint venture with the Phaunos Timber Fund.

  • Canada's Offsetters acquires European assets, plans rebranding

    22 July 2015

    Offsetters Climate Solutions of Canada has acquired several assets from Forest Finance Service of Germany that it says will strengthen its position in the market for carbon offsets and ecosystem services.

  • Europe's Marguerite fund refinances €107m solar PV loan

    22 July 2015

    Europe's 'Marguerite' infrastructure fund has refinanced a €107 million ($117 million) term loan facility which supported the construction of a 36MW solar photovoltaic (PV) project in France.

  • Forestry investments set for further dramatic growth, says major investor

    08 July 2015

    Institutional investment in timberland could triple, in coming decades, from its current level of about $100 billion, according to a biennial study of the global forestry market.

  • 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