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Swiss insurance firm to invest $1bn in green bonds
19 November 2013A Swiss insurance company said it aims to invest up to $1 billion in climate bonds, providing a major boost for the fledgling green bond market.
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Indian hero Tendulkar to bat for solar
18 November 2013India's cricket hero Sachin Tendulkar, who retired from the game on Saturday, is to focus on providing solar powered lighting to remote communities in his home nation.
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Dong Energy green-lights €2.2bn German offshore wind project
18 November 2013Dong Energy is to make its biggest-ever investment in offshore wind power with the construction of a €2.2 billion ($3 billion) project off the German coast of the North Sea.
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COP Blog: Can the last CDM participant to leave the National Stadium please turn out the lights?
18 November 2013At the end of the first week of ninth Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP9), it has become abundantly clear that despite the proliferation of agenda items related to the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and new market-based approaches, there is no sense of urgency to achieve progress in any of them.
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COP Blog: The evolution of equity
16 November 2013The notion of equity has always been one of the most divisive concepts at the UN climate negotiations. In fact, many argue that it has been the deal breaker to a global agreement more than once.
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SolarCity's bond to 'open the gates' for solar securitisations
15 November 2013SolarCity's $54 million bond issue will "open the gates" for other solar firms that want to tap the asset-backed security (ABS) markets, and could wipe as much as three percentage points off their borrowing costs, an analyst has claimed.
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KKR and Google join forces to invest in US solar
15 November 2013Private equity giant KKR has partnered with Google to invest in a portfolio of US solar projects, in a deal understood to be worth $400 million.
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People moves
15 November 2013The latest people moves in the environmental markets, covering companies including Terra Firma, Deutsche Bank, Climate Change Capital, the Global Reporting Initiative and more
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£780m Infinis float is at bottom of price range
15 November 2013Infinis Energy, the renewables company run by private equity giant Terra Firma, has priced its London listing at the bottom end of the range it had hoped for, valuing the business at £780 million ($1.3 billion).
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SolarCity's $54m bond gets BBB+ preliminary rating from S&P
14 November 2013SolarCity's planned $54 million bond issue has been given a low investment-grade preliminary rating by Standard & Poor's.