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  • Aviva agrees long-term finance facility for UK yieldco

    27 September 2016

    Aviva Investors has agreed to provide long-term financing for Bluefield Solar Income Fund (BSIF), a London-listed investment company focussing on large-scale industrial and agricultural solar assets.

  • The road to Marrakesh is paved with green intentions

    26 September 2016

    The Paris climate change summit will be a tough act to follow, but its successor is shaping up to be an important meeting in its own right. Hamza Ali and Peter Cripps report

  • Green bond fund reveals greenhouse gas savings

    26 September 2016

    A major green bond fund estimates that every €1 million invested in the fund avoids, or prevents, emissions equivalent to 1,400 tonnes of carbon dioxide.

  • Macquarie in €90m Japanese solar deal

    26 September 2016

    Macquarie Capital has teamed up with an infrastructure specialist to ink a €90 million ($100 million) deal to acquire a solar project pipeline in Japan.

  • EU carbon market weekly update - 26 September 2016

    26 September 2016

    Further price rises are likely this week as utilities continue buying EUAs ahead of the winter season, says Louis Redshaw

  • Mark Carney: the five measures needed to scale up the green bond market

    23 September 2016

    Green bonds are a key investment tool to "advance a low carbon future while raising global investment and spurring growth", but five measures are needed to help the market scale up, Mark Carney has argued.

  • Green finance "an opportunity" to uphold financial stability, says Carney

    23 September 2016

    Bank of England (BoE) governor Mark Carney has, in another landmark speech, highlighted the "major opportunity" presented by the green economy, saying that its growth can help promote financial stability.

  • People Moves - 23 September 2016

    23 September 2016

    Low-carbon energy infrastructure investor Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners is expanding its UK and North America management teams, with four new appointments.

  • Sustainable forestry fund reaches first close

    22 September 2016

    A sustainable forestry fund has reached a first close.

  • Key COP21 target for ratification reached

    21 September 2016

    The Paris climate deal moved a step closer to becoming law today after the number of countries that ratified it hit 60.