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  • Clean Power Plan could lead to stranded assets, inter-state trading

    01 June 2015

    The proposed US Clean Power Plan could leave some coal-fired power plants 'stranded' and lead to inter-state trading of emission reductions in the western states, experts said.

  • Profile: Macquarie Infrastructure Debt Investment Solutions

    29 May 2015

    As Macquarie Infrastructure Debt Investment Solutions gears up for a second financial close, Kit Hamilton and Andrew Robertson talk to Sophie Robinson-Tillett

  • Environmental Markets acquires CTX European operations

    29 May 2015

    European Environmental Markets (EEM), a London-based company set up in February, is to take over the European operations of Carbon Trade Exchange (CTX).

  • TenneT issues €1bn green bond for offshore wind

    29 May 2015

    TenneT has issued a €1 billion ($1.1 billion) green bond, in a deal that was twice oversubscribed.

  • Norwegian government backs oil fund coal divestment

    28 May 2015

    Norway's NOK7 trillion ($894 billion) oil fund is to divest more of its coal holdings after the country's politicians gave an earlier-than-expected backing to plans to reduce its exposure to the commodity.

  • World Bank uses options to encourage methane reduction projects

    28 May 2015

    A series of 'put options' are to be sold by the World Bank to incentivise private sector companies to reduce methane emissions in developing countries.

  • Santander and pension funds launch $2bn renewables and water fund

    28 May 2015

    Santander and two Canadian pension funds have launched a $2 billion renewables and water fund, which they plan to make "one of the largest and best-in-class" in the world.

  • Glennmont buys French wind farm

    28 May 2015

    Renewables investor Glennmont Partners has bought a wind farm in France, expanding its onshore wind portfolio to 210MW.

  • Of green bonds, Paris and additionality

    27 May 2015

    I was fortunate enough to spend much of last week in Paris where thousands of people from the business, finance and political worlds converged to talk about climate change, says Peter Cripps

  • Goldman Sachs sets $1bn target for securitised Japanese renewables bonds

    27 May 2015

    Goldman Sachs has established a "first of its kind" facility that aims to issue $1 billion of securitised Japanese renewable energy bonds.