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Italy's environment ministry calls for national committee on green bond development
15 February 2017Italy's environment ministry has called for a national committee on green bonds, tasked with increasing issuance from the country.
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Green bond round-up, 15 February 2017
15 February 2017German index provider Solactive has launched a green bond index that tracks investment-grade euro and dollar-denominated issuances.
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Australian companies lag MSCI World for SDG impact
14 February 2017Australian companies have less of a positive impact than the rest of the MSCI World Index when it comes to meeting the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Renovate targets commercial Pace growth with partnership
14 February 2017Renovate America has partnered with commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (Pace) financer Greenworks Lending to launch a commercial Pace programme.
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SEB issues first green bond
13 February 2017Swedish giant Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) has issued its first green bond, raising €500 million ($534 million).
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TCFD to bolster shareholder climate resolutions
13 February 2017The work of the Financial Stability Board's (FSB) Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) will make it harder for companies to ignore the dozens of shareholder resolutions on climate change that have already been filed this year, according to a US-based pension fund.
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EU carbon market weekly update - 13 February 2017
13 February 2017Week-on-week we saw a continuation of the sideways trading last week as EUA prices ended the week unchanged at €5.16.
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PiP acquires 30MW of solar farms
13 February 2017The Multi-Strategy Infrastructure Fund (MSIF), managed by the UK's Pensions Infrastructure Platform (PiP), has acquired six solar farms in the country, representing 30MW, from Chinese solar manufacturer Trina Solar for an undisclosed amount.
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A progress report on the Luxembourg Green Exchange
13 February 2017Since its launch in September, the exchange has already listed €47 billion of green bonds, say Chiara Caprioli and Julien Froumouth
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Flood Re reveals contrasts in UK insurers' flood modelling
13 February 2017Britain's flood reinsurance programme has exposed insurers' ability to model and manage flood risk, as Flood Re's chief actuary Gary McInally discusses with Christopher Cundy