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  • Warsaw climate talks keep 2015 deal within grasp

    25 November 2013

    Negotiators at this year's UN climate talks reached an agreement on how to further advance climate action ahead of global deal in 2015, but little progress was made on the financing of climate measures.

  • BlackRock, CalSTRS snap up BoA's $500m green bond

    22 November 2013

    BlackRock, California State Teachers' Retirement System and TIAA-CREF were among the investors in Bank of America's first-ever green bond.

  • Conergy in '€100m' UK solar farm deal

    22 November 2013

    Two UK developers have sold five solar farms and have given the buyers the option to purchase an additional four projects, in a deal that could be worth more than €100 million ($134.4 million).

  • UK market reforms to 'create problems' for renewables finance

    21 November 2013

    Renewables projects will face further challenges securing finance amid sweeping reforms to the UK government's flagship incentive programme, according to developers and lawyers advising industry on the changes.

  • Mark Fulton joins CBI to work on green securitisation

    21 November 2013

    Climate investment expert Mark Fulton has joined the Climate Bonds Initiative as a senior fellow working on green securitisation.

  • EDF issues record-breaking €1.4bn green bond

    21 November 2013

    Energy giant EDF has issued the biggest-ever green bond, raising €1.4 billion ($1.9 billion) to fund renewable energy projects in a transaction that was twice oversubscribed.

  • COP Blog: WTF – Where's The Finance?

    21 November 2013

    The annual UN climate talks – known as the Conference of Parties, or COP – had been billed, all too optimistically, as a 'Finance COP'.

  • Companies' understanding of forest risk 'lacking'

    20 November 2013

    Many investors and companies "have much to do understand the risks arising from deforestation", despite encouraging signs that more are reporting data relating to the problem, a report warned.

  • '$100bn of institutional investor capital' available for renewables

    20 November 2013

    Institutional investors have more than $100 billion of uncommitted infrastructure capital that could be invested in renewables, an investment banking group has said.

  • COP Blog: Dealing with the drivers of deforestation

    20 November 2013

    Week two of the UNFCCC climate change negotiations always marks the incoming of high-level ministers. This year, they arrive (we hope) to take the necessary strategic decisions that will ultimately lead to a climate change agreement in Paris in 2015.