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  • First Solar mulls sale of 8point3

    12 April 2017

    First Solar has announced that it is considering the sale of its interest in yieldco 8point3 Energy Partners, as the formers makes a strategic realignment around its solar panel business.

  • Voting begins for EF's Deals of the Year awards

    12 April 2017

    Nominations are now being accepted for the tenth annual Environmental Finance Deals of the Year awards.

  • Insurers' strategic responses to climate change

    11 April 2017

    The third and final part of this series of features about the insurance sector looks at group level responses to climate change. Peter Cripps reports

  • Conservation finance lender gets EU backing

    11 April 2017

    The EU's natural capital lending facility has made its first loan, lending Rewilding Europe Capital (REC), a social enterprise established in 2014 that speicalises-conservation and re-wilding projects, €6 million ($6.27 million).

  • GCF rehabilitating hydro is 'shameful' - NGO

    11 April 2017

    The Green Climate Fund's (GCF) decision to rehabilitate a Soviet era dam in Tajikistan has been labelled 'shameful' by one senior analyst.

  • Final winners revealed in Environmental Finance's Green Bond Awards

    11 April 2017

    The best innovations, intermediaries and banks that helped the market set fresh records in 2016 have been honoured in the final wave of the Green Bond Awards.

  • EU carbon market weekly update - 4 April 2017

    10 April 2017

    EU Allowances are subject to a mixed bag of price drivers this week, but there is a chance of adding to last week's gains, says Louis Redshaw

  • California carbon price jumps following judgment

    10 April 2017

    The price of carbon in California shot up 4% in a day following the state's Court of Appeal judgment that the floor price of the cap-and-trade programme auctions did not constitute a tax.

  • Green bond roundup - 10 April 2017

    10 April 2017

    CDL Properties has issued a SGD100 million ($71 million) green bond, the first from a Singapore-based entity.

  • Aviva joins Climate Neutral Now

    10 April 2017

    Aviva has become the first insurance company to join the UN's Climate Neutral Now campaign, committing to maintain its zero-carbon operations status.