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• New York State plans $475m green bond

  15 July 2015

  New York State plans to issue a $475.1 million green bond to help finance and refinance water projects, Environmental Finance has learned.

• South Pole and Fossil Free Indexes join forces

  15 July 2015

  Carbon reduction specialist South Pole Group has teamed up with research firm Fossil Free Indexes (FFI) in a collaboration that could lead to the creation of new low-carbon indexes and investment products.

• MIDIS financial close brings total raised to £2.5bn

  15 July 2015

  Macquarie Infrastructure Debt Investment Solutions (MIDIS) has reached a final close on its UK-focused inflation-linked debt fund, attracting total commitments of more than £739 million ($1.2 billion).

• TerraForm Power prices $300m green bond

  15 July 2015

  TerraForm Power has priced a $300 million green bond that will help it buy a portfolio of wind power assets from Invenergy.

• Northern Trust wins ESG fixed income mandate

  14 July 2015

  Northern Trust has been awarded a fixed income mandate with environmental, social and governance (ESG) exclusions by New Zealand's NZ$29 billion ($19.5 billion) sovereign wealth fund.

• Solar ABS set to remain at BBB level for time being, says S&P

  14 July 2015

  The credit ratings of solar securitisations are likely to be stuck at low investment grade, at least for the time being, according to Standard & Poor's (S&P).

• Goldwind to issue China's first labelled green bond

  13 July 2015

  Chinese wind energy firm Goldwind is to roadshow the country's first labelled green bond, in a major step for the fledgling market.

• Climate change set to test the resilience of corporates

  13 July 2015

  As scientists predict climate change will exacerbate the impact of natural disasters in the future, Miroslav Petkov and Michael Wilkins suggest that companies should prepare to be tested and existing protection measures could soon prove inadequate

• EU carbon market weekly update - 13 July 2015

  13 July 2015

  Positive sentiment about a Greece bailout helped EUA prices end the week higher, and further gains could lie ahead, reports Louis Redshaw

• NextEnergy delays second yieldco IPO by 2 weeks amid Greece turmoil

  13 July 2015

  NextEnergy Capital has delayed by two weeks its plans to float its second yieldco, partly because investor sentiment was hit by the crisis talks about whether Greece will exit the eurozone.