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Green Bonds round-up, 28 November
28 November 2018France's state-owned postal company La Poste saw its inaugural €500 million ($564 million) green bond attract orders amounting to more than €2.1 billion.
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Green bonds round-up, 3 October 2018
03 October 2018Getlink said its inaugural green bond had been "comfortably oversubscribed", helping it raise €550 million ($635 million) rather than the €500 million originally envisaged.
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Climate change increases cost of debt for developing countries
06 August 2018The intensification of climate risks and the degree to which they are accurately priced by financial markets are of increasing concern to global economic stability. However, as awareness around those risks has risen over the last years, there is still a long way to go to consistently measure and monitor their costs, which can result in substantial gains or losses for institutional investors. Vincent Huck reports
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Green bonds round-up, 18 July 2018
18 July 2018Terna, the operator of the Italian electricity grid, has entered the green bond market for the first time, with a €750 million ($872 million) offering maturing in July 2023.
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Green bond round-up, 13 June 2018
13 June 2018DNB Boligkreditt, a subsidiary of Norwegian bank DNB, has raised €1.5 billion ($1.76 billion) from its first green covered bond.
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Green bond round-up, 25 April
25 April 2018More than $3.3 billion of green bonds have settled in the first three days of this week*, with announcements suggesting that a strong pipeline of issuance of green and social bonds can be expected in coming weeks.
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Oligopolistic rating agencies must be forced to consider ESG, says HLEG
31 January 2018The European Union should crack down on 'oligopolistic' credit rating agencies by forcing them to integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in their analysis, according to the High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (HLEG).
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Nigeria publishes green bond guidelines as it gears up to issue
09 March 2017The Nigerian government has published green bond guidelines as it gears up to become the first African sovereign to tap the market.
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Brexit could weaken UK's environmental policy, warns S&P
04 August 2016The UK's decision to leave the European Union could lead to weaker environmental policies, warned Mike Wilkins, head of global environmental and climate research at ratings agency Standard & Poor's.
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EF BRIEFS: Trina Solar, Aurora
02 August 2016Trina Solar, a leading maker of solar photovoltaic modules, has entered into a 'definitive agreement' with a consortium of investors to take the company private.