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  • Blackstone boosts capacity for renewables investments

    22 October 2014

    Blackstone, a leading US-based private equity investor, has set up a new firm to invest in renewable energy projects in North America.

  • Credit Agricole dethrones SEB as leading green bond underwriter in Q3

    21 October 2014

    Credit Agricole CIB displaced Scandinavian bank SEB as the leading underwriter of green bonds in the three months to the end of September, according to the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI), a financial NGO.

  • NRW roadshows '€500m' green bond

    21 October 2014

    NRW.Bank is roadshowing a green bond that could raise €500 million ($638 million) – twice as much as its inaugural issue last year.

  • Risk-sharing instruments get approval from Green Climate Fund

    21 October 2014

    The UN's Green Climate Fund has approved the use of financial guarantees and other risk-sharing instruments that it believes will help leverage private capital in support of the fund.

  • Mellon Capital and McKnight Foundation in $100m lower carbon strategy

    21 October 2014

    Mellon Capital has attracted $100 million of funding from a US foundation for a new strategy tilted towards companies with lower carbon emissions.

  • Wind power installations seen rising 14% this year

    21 October 2014

    Global wind energy capacity is expected to grow by around 14% this year to reach 363GW, according to a report from the main industry association.

  • The potential of sub-Saharan Africa

    21 October 2014

    The IEA estimates renewable energy generation in Africa will grow 70% by 2020. Sophie Robinson-Tillett speaks to investors about their strategies for breaking into the continent and which countries show the most potential

  • HASI makes $144m wind investment

    21 October 2014

    Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI) has invested $144 million in a portfolio of 10 operating US wind projects owned by JP Morgan.

  • Prudential backs UK tidal project with 'up to £100m'

    20 October 2014

    Insurance company Prudential will invest up to £100 million ($161 million) in a 320MW tidal energy project in Wales

  • Stock exchanges expand role in promoting sustainability

    20 October 2014

    More than 40% of stock exchanges now offer at least one index integrating social and/or environmental issues, according to a UN study.