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  • Coal: Caught in the EU Utility Death Spiral

    The electricity sector is changing, and nowhere has this change been more profound than in Europe...

  • Carbon Tracker report warns utilities of coal death spiral

    05 June 2015

    The Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI) has fired another shot across the bows of the coal sector, in a report that warns the utilities reliant on the commodity are trapped in a "death spiral".

  • Climate change will create financial 'winners and losers', says Mercer

    04 June 2015

    Investment portfolios will see "winners and losers" as a result of climate change, according to research by Mercer, and investors need to adopt their portfolios accordingly.

  • Vivint Solar moves into commercial and industrial sector with $150m fund

    04 June 2015

    US-based residential solar energy provider Vivint Solar is set to expand to commercial and industrial markets with the launch of a new $150 million fund.

  • NextEnergy to float second solar energy yieldco

    04 June 2015

    NextEnergy Capital, a specialist UK merchant bank, is to float it second yieldco, which will invest in utility-scale solar energy assets in the EU (ex-UK).

  • FTSE Russell and Johannesburg Stock Exchange to create new ESG indexes

    03 June 2015

    A new environmental, social and governance (ESG) index series will be created through a collaboration between London-based global index provider FTSE Russell and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE).

  • Baltic renewables firm issues €50m green bond

    03 June 2015

    The market has seen its first green bond from a Baltic issuer.

  • Green bond industry groups turn spotlight on property sector

    03 June 2015

    Two reports aiming to establish best practice among green bond issuers in the real estate sector have been published by separate industry groups.

  • An analysis of the updated Green Bond Principles

    03 June 2015

    The second iteration of the Principles, issued in March, extends the number of suggested project categories and explicitly allows refinancing, says Jacqueline Heng

  • World's first ETF for yieldcos launched

    03 June 2015

    The world's first exchange-traded fund (ETF) dedicated to yieldcos has been launched in a sign of the asset class's growing maturity.