News

• Conergy in '€100m' UK solar farm deal

  22 November 2013

  Two 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).

• UK market reforms to 'create problems' for renewables finance

  21 November 2013

  Renewables 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.

• Mark Fulton joins CBI to work on green securitisation

  21 November 2013

  Climate investment expert Mark Fulton has joined the Climate Bonds Initiative as a senior fellow working on green securitisation.

• EDF issues record-breaking €1.4bn green bond

  21 November 2013

  Energy 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.

• Companies' understanding of forest risk 'lacking'

  20 November 2013

  Many 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.

• '$100bn of institutional investor capital' available for renewables

  20 November 2013

  Institutional investors have more than $100 billion of uncommitted infrastructure capital that could be invested in renewables, an investment banking group has said.

• $500m 'green polyester' plant planned for China

  19 November 2013

  The 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".

• Swiss insurance firm to invest $1bn in green bonds

  19 November 2013

  A 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.

• Indian hero Tendulkar to bat for solar

  18 November 2013

  India'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.

• Dong Energy green-lights €2.2bn German offshore wind project

  18 November 2013

  Dong 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.