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Conergy in '€100m' UK solar farm deal
22 November 2013Two 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).
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UK market reforms to 'create problems' for renewables finance
21 November 2013Renewables 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.
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Mark Fulton joins CBI to work on green securitisation
21 November 2013Climate investment expert Mark Fulton has joined the Climate Bonds Initiative as a senior fellow working on green securitisation.
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EDF issues record-breaking €1.4bn green bond
21 November 2013Energy 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.
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COP Blog: WTF – Where's The Finance?
21 November 2013The annual UN climate talks – known as the Conference of Parties, or COP – had been billed, all too optimistically, as a 'Finance COP'.
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Companies' understanding of forest risk 'lacking'
20 November 2013Many 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.
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'$100bn of institutional investor capital' available for renewables
20 November 2013Institutional investors have more than $100 billion of uncommitted infrastructure capital that could be invested in renewables, an investment banking group has said.
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COP Blog: Dealing with the drivers of deforestation
20 November 2013Week 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.
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COP Blog: Follow the money
19 November 2013Before this year's Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN climate convention got underway, the Warsaw meeting was being widely referred to as 'the finance COP'
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$500m 'green polyester' plant planned for China
19 November 2013The world's first biomass-to-glycolplant is set to be built in China, in a move hailed as "a big step towards creating a bio-based economy".