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  • Singapore REIT secures S$200m green loan

    04 October 2019

    Singapore-based Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) CapitaLand Mall Trust (CMT) has secured a S$200 million ($144.8 million) five-year green loan from OCBC Bank.

  • Glennmont exits UK wind with sale to Foresight

    04 October 2019

    Glennmont Partners has fully divested its portfolio from UK and Irish wind assets, following the sale of two wind farms, with 37.5MW of combined capacity, to fellow UK asset manager Foresight.

  • Pennsylvania set to join RGGI

    04 October 2019

    The US state of Pennsylvania, one of the US’s largest coal and natural gas producers, has agreed to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).

  • Green Investment Group plots future in green advisory services

    03 October 2019

    The Macquarie-owned Green Investment Group (GIG) has signalled its intention to increasingly muscle in on the ‘green advisory’ services market, amid the accelerating growth of the green bond market.

  • CA100+ targets lobbying, implementing TCFD and net zero emissions

    03 October 2019

    Climate Action (CA) 100+ has set out its engagement priorities, over the coming months, in its first initiative progress report for 161 'focus companies'.

  • European insurers spell out ESG investing moves in detail

    03 October 2019

    Europe’s insurers have used regulatory filings to provide detail about how they are transforming their investment processes to encompass environmental, social and governance (ESG) precepts.

  • Green bond comment: BIS backing signals market's maturity

    02 October 2019

    The launch of a green bond fund by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), on 16 September, marks a new milestone on the market's long march to maturity.

  • $150m green bond for oil tanker fleet in pipeline

    02 October 2019

    Teekay Shuttle Tankers, a Canadian shipowner specialising in oil and gas transportation is looking to issue a $150 million green bond to fund the building of new tankers.

  • Bonds round-up: Raiffeisen Bank, NWB, Mitsubishi UFJ, European Energy ... and more

    02 October 2019

    Raiffeisen Bank raises €750m from second green bond issue

  • Norway’s oil fund to dump $5.9bn of equities in oil stocks

    02 October 2019

    Norway’s $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund is to “gradually phase out” about NOK54 billion ($5.9 billion) worth of stocks in crude oil producers, the country’s Ministry of Finance said.