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  • New financing tools required for CCS, say analysts

    18 June 2015

    A range of new financing mechanisms will be required to stimulate widespread deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Europe, according to UK researchers.

  • EU bioethanol sector optimistic despite 'damaging' 2014

    17 June 2015

    Optimism has returned to the EU's bioethanol sector after a "damaging" year blighted by policy uncertainty and falling prices.

  • White House announces more than $4bn clean energy initiative

    17 June 2015

    More than $4 billion in private sector commitments have been pledged to the White House's Clean Energy Initiative at its climate change summit.

  • World Bank smashes $500m in index-linked green bonds

    17 June 2015

    The World Bank has broken through the $500 million mark for its index-linked green bond issuance.

  • Citi and Renew Financial issue first ever unsecured energy efficiency ABS

    17 June 2015

    Citi and Renew Financial have issued the first ever asset-backed security (ABS) transaction comprised of unsecured consumer energy efficiency loans.

  • Prices down, but optimism up

    17 June 2015

    Prices have come under renewed pressure, say the winners of this year's Voluntary Carbon Market Rankings, but growing interest from corporates offers reasons for hope. Peter Cripps reports

  • Winners of Environmental Finance's Voluntary Carbon Market Rankings see better times ahead

    17 June 2015

    Sentiment in the voluntary carbon market remains bullish despite prices continuing to come under pressure, according to the latest survey of the market by Environmental Finance.

  • TerraForm Global brings fundraising to nearly $600m before IPO

    16 June 2015

    Developing markets yieldco, TerraForm Global, is set to raise more than $400 million through private placements in addition to its recent fundraising.

  • SunEdison bags two more renewables companies for new yieldco

    16 June 2015

    SunEdison has bought two more renewable energy companies for its yieldco, continuing an unrivalled spate of acquisitions in the sector in recent months.

  • ESB Novusmodus and Ludgate exit agritech firm

    16 June 2015

    Two environmentally-themed funds have announced the sale of Lumicity, the agritech energy services provider, to the company's management team and energy giant RWE.