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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...
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Carbon Tracker report warns utilities of coal death spiral
05 June 2015The 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".
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Climate change will create financial 'winners and losers', says Mercer
04 June 2015Investment 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.
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Vivint Solar moves into commercial and industrial sector with $150m fund
04 June 2015US-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.
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NextEnergy to float second solar energy yieldco
04 June 2015NextEnergy 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).
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FTSE Russell and Johannesburg Stock Exchange to create new ESG indexes
03 June 2015A 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).
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Baltic renewables firm issues €50m green bond
03 June 2015The market has seen its first green bond from a Baltic issuer.
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Green bond industry groups turn spotlight on property sector
03 June 2015Two reports aiming to establish best practice among green bond issuers in the real estate sector have been published by separate industry groups.
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An analysis of the updated Green Bond Principles
03 June 2015The second iteration of the Principles, issued in March, extends the number of suggested project categories and explicitly allows refinancing, says Jacqueline Heng
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World's first ETF for yieldcos launched
03 June 2015The world's first exchange-traded fund (ETF) dedicated to yieldcos has been launched in a sign of the asset class's growing maturity.