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COP Blog: Don't turn the GCF into the Greedy Corporate Fund
10 December 2014Last week, the UN Climate Summit in Lima, Peru, kicked off amid controversy with news that Japan had counted loans for coal projects in Indonesia as international climate finance.
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The results are in: Annual Market Rankings winners announced
10 December 2014Top brokers, dealers and service providers have been named in Environmental Finance's 15th Annual Market Rankings.
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Chicago water agency plans $225 million green bond, with more expected
10 December 2014A US water agency is to issue a $225 million municipal green bond to finance flood defences and biogas projects.
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NAB doubles green bond for Australian renewable energy
09 December 2014The National Australia Bank (NAB) has doubled the size of its inaugural green bond due to investor demand.
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COP Blog: Why finance matters to the UN talks - and business
09 December 2014As the first week of the UN negotiations in Lima wrap up, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) is closer to the mythical $10 billion initial capitalisation goal that someone, somewhere decided would be the threshold for success.
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COP Blog: REDD+ still has room to grow
08 December 2014There has been an air of anticipation about what this COP might deliver on REDD+, the evolving UNFCCC mitigation mechanism on deforestation, forest degradation and other forest uses which first arose on the COP agenda in 2005.
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Norway doubles its GCF pledge
08 December 2014Norway has doubled the amount it will give to the Green Climate Fund (GCF), pushing it closer to its $10 billion target.
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Amundi to offer alternative to green bonds
05 December 2014Investment giant Amundi expects to develop a low-carbon debt product as an alternative to the green bond market, and expects it to attract "huge" levels of interest.
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Jigar Shah launches Generate Capital
05 December 2014SunEdison founder Jigar Shah has joined forces with a number of other big hitters in the renewables space to launch what it claims is "the first dedicated resource-efficiency finance company".
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Abengoa Yield closes $125m credit facility
04 December 2014Abengoa's yieldco has closed a $125 million credit facility from five banks.