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Last chance to vote in Environmental Finance Market Rankings
02 November 2018Voting in Environmental Finance's Annual Market Rankings – the most closely watched survey of the world's environmental markets – will close at midnight on Monday (5 November).
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Green bonds round-up, 31 Oct 2018
31 October 2018German utility EnBW has raised €500 million ($573 million) from its inaugural issue on the green bond market.
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Investors and corporates join forces in new plastics initiative
31 October 2018More than 15 major institutional investors and organisations representing several hundred companies have joined forces in support of a new initiative "to eradicate plastic waste and pollution at source".
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Exchanges link with IFC to raise ESG standards in emerging markets
29 October 2018The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) Initiative have agreed to work together to help raise environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards across capital markets in emerging economies.
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Green bonds round-up - 24 Oct - 17 new deals
24 October 2018Royal Schiphol Group, the owner of Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, has priced a green bond worth €500 million ($576 million), making it the first European airport to issue green-labelled notes.
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Vote now! Help select the winners in Environmental Finance's annual Market Rankings
24 October 2018Voting for Environmental Finance's 19th annual Market Rankings is closing soon – there are just eight working days left to participate in the largest and most closely watched survey of the world's environmental markets.
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UK government commits additional £80m to green investments
22 October 2018The UK government has earmarked £60 million ($78 million) to fund research and innovation projects that tackle air quality and climate change impacts, as part of its Strategic Priorities Fund.
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Green bonds round-up, 17 October 2018
17 October 2018German commercial bank Berlin Hyp has raised €500 million ($578 million) from its third green Pfandbrief. This takes the total green debt issued by the bank to €3 billion.
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Development banks eye private capital to tackle plastics pollution
15 October 2018The European Investment Bank (EIB), Agence Française de Developpement (AFD) and Germany’s KfW are joining forces to support an initiative that they hope will ‘crowd-in’ private capital to reduce plastic pollution of the oceans.
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Green bond round-up, 10 October 2018
10 October 2018
- SEC disbands ESG enforcement division
- Decarbonisation investment faces three key challenges, says Ninety One's Cooper
- G20 agrees to bioeconomy principles
- 'Unlikely' potential Transition Loan Principles will launch in 2024
- Electricity versus gas - the devil is in the detail
- Wellington: Time to stop 'annoying' rise of three-year lookback sustainable bonds
- Bloomberg launches transition plan credibility assessments
- Transition plan rules 'should require disclosure of' expected climate impact
- UK Impact market grows to £77bn, with SDR impact label a potential positive
- Sustainable Debt Round-up: IADB, Raizen Energia, Switch ... and more
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Sustainable Debt Americas 2024 conference round-up
20 September 2024Another hugely successful Environmental Finance event in New York highlights the progress that continuous innovation and improvement is providing sustainable debt markets - with plenty more to come. Ahren Lester reports
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Investors must move beyond 'lip service' on biodiversity, says Nuveen
20 September 2024Investors must move beyond "lip service" and actually be willing to look at nature and biodiversity investment opportunities, Nuveen has told an Environmental Finance conference.
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Dow Chemical could issue second green bond in the future
20 September 2024Dow Chemical has not ruled out issuing a second green bond in the future, although any decision will not be made until after the US election in November.
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Brazilian development bank to fund next wave of renewable technology
19 September 2024The Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) wants to fund the next wave of renewable technology in the country, but there is a need for more blended finance, according to Luciana Costa, infrastructure, energy transition and climate change managing director at BNDES.
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Sovereign SLBs challenging due to the nature of the issuer
19 September 2024Sovereigns across the world have embraced the sustainability-linked bond (SLB) instruments, with issuance increasingly being considered, but the nature of sovereigns creates some challenges for investors, the audience at Sustainable Debt Americas 2024 heard.