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  • EIB and Luxembourg launch climate finance platform to crowd in private sector

    16 November 2016

    The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the government of Luxembourg have partnered to launch a "climate finance platform", designed to help attract private finance to climate-related projects.

  • COP blog: Promoting the investor voice on climate finance at COP22

    16 November 2016

    IIGCC
    As Morocco's King Mohammed VI joined UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa yesterday to welcome dignitaries to Bab Ighli the tone was firmly one of collective effort to sustain the 'Spirit of Paris', regardless of who is poised to move into the White House next January.

  • Ygrene issues first AAA rated Pace bond in $329.5m fundraise

    15 November 2016

    Ygrene Energy Fund has raised $329.5 million by issuing two Property Assessed Clean Energy (Pace) bonds including the market's first AAA rated notes.

  • COP blog: Big dams must not be allowed to sink the Green Climate Fund

    15 November 2016

    Friends of the Earth
    While little discussed at the COP, the channeling and use of climate finance must now take centre stage as the board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) prepares to meet next month in Samoa.

  • COP blog: Who's got most to lose if the Paris Agreement fails?

    15 November 2016

    Verisk Maplecroft
    With Donald Trump's election victory still casting a shadow over events in Marrakesh, representatives will meet this week to further progress the mobilisation of climate finance.

  • GIB to launch Green Impact Report for potential commercial use

    14 November 2016

    The UK's Green Investment Bank (GIB) has launched a methodology to quantify on the environmental benefits of a given infrastructure asset or portfolio. The bank believes its Green Impact Report could be sold to investors looking to rate the green credentials of an investment.

  • ICMA's 'call to arms' for collaboration in the green bond market

    14 November 2016

    The International Capital Markets Association has issued a "call to arms" to participants in the green financial markets to work together, including ending the "slightly competitive dynamic" that has emerged between industry bodies.

  • EU carbon market weekly update - 14 November 2016

    14 November 2016

    Carbon prices fell 76 cents last week as falling energy prices, weak auctions and an unexpected Trump victory led to a sell off.

  • BNP Paribas IP provides carbon footprint of nearly 100 of its funds

    14 November 2016

    BNP Paribas Investment Partners (IP) has increased the number of funds it measures the carbon footprint of to nearly 100.

  • GFI's six proposals to make UK an international green financial hub

    14 November 2016

    The City of London's Green Finance Initiative (GFI) has launched a report outlining six key priority areas, to help maintain the UK's role as "the go-to place to connect capital with green" amid growing competition from other financial centres.