While 17 per cent of current investment by large public corporations is already green, there’s an urgent need to mobilize even more capital to help build a lower-carbon and more sustainable economy. And while less than five per cent of […]
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Climate Bonds launched its Green Bonds: the State of the Market 2018 report on the first day of our Annual Conference in London. Produced with the support of HSBC and Amundi, this is the first publication in a new annual series of reports, focusing […]
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LeasePlan Corporation N.V. successfully issued its first ever Green Bond, a EUR 500 million 5-year fixed rate note. The bond attracted EUR 3.5 billion of demand with the participation of around 260 investors. 64% of the book was allocated to […]
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BBVA Group issued the first structured green bond using blockchain technology to negotiate the terms and conditions. It is a private placement in which MAPFRE invested €35 million six year term bond linked to the evolution of the five year […]
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Eurelectric releases its position paper “Enabling sustainable investments via sustainable finance”, highlighting the critical role of the financial system for accelerating investments in the transition-enabling technologies. Committed to reach carbon neutrality by 2045, the EU electricity sector aims at providing […]
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15 European companies (EDF, EDP, ENEL, ENGIE, Ferrovie Dello Stato Italiane, Iberdrola, Icade, Ørsted, RATP, SNCF Réseau, Société du Grand Paris, SSE, Tennet, Terna, Tideway, Vasakronan) has set up the Corporate Forum on Sustainable Finance. The initiative comes one year […]
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De vraag van beleggers naar groene obligaties blijft onverminderd groot, maar in de Verenigde Staten (VS) wordt de groei van de markt belemmerd door beperkt aanbod. Uitdagingen voor verdere ontwikkeling van de Amerikaanse markt: de concentratie van ‘green bonds’ in […]
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The sustainable finance market surged in 2018, with a record $247 billion worth of sustainability-themed debt instruments raised during the year, according to research company BloombergNEF (BNEF). Green bonds issuance amounted to $182.2 billion in 2018, whereas one new product, […]
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On Thursday 03 January 2019, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) issued its debut EUR-denominated Green Bond benchmark, a 5-year €600 million Global transaction. The new issue is due on 10 January 2024, pays a coupon of 0.000% […]
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Het Agentschap van de Generale Thesaurie heeft ABN Amro Bank, HSBC en Nordea zijn geselecteerd als adviseurs voor de aankomende Dutch Direct Auction (DDA) van de groene obligatie. ABN Amro fungeert tevens als ‘sole green bond structuring advisor’. Daarnaast heeft […]
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EBRD subscribes to US$ 68.5 million in “Amundi Planet – Emerging Green One”, the world’s largest green bond fund Three multilateral development banks have made a landmark investment in a fund that that will invest in green bond issuances by […]
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BNG Bank heeft bij internationale beleggers de afgelopen weken twee duurzame obligaties geplaatst ten behoeve van kredietverlening aan gemeenten en woningcorporaties. In totaal heeft de bank sinds 2014 acht duurzame obligaties ter waarde van EUR 5,2 miljard geplaatst op de […]
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