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NAB issues $150m green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
National Australia Bank (NAB) has issued an AU$150 million green bond, the first Australian-issued climate bond in the market. The NAB Climate Bond is the first bank-issued bond to be certified in compliance with the Climate Bonds Standards. Proceeds ...

Barclays, MSCI launch green bond index series

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... Index, with sub-indices that are segmented out by currency, maturity, sector, and use of proceeds. "According to the Climate Bond Initiative, around US$30-40bn of green bonds will be issued this year, increasing to around US$100bn next year," said Brian ...

Climate Bond Standard to establish water investment criteria

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... is developing criteria for water investments that can be used to back green and climate bonds certified under the Climate Bond Standard. Sean Kidney, Climate Bonds Initiative chair The working group was brought together by the Climate Bonds Initiative ...

US$9.2 billion in green bonds issued in Q3 2014

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... Morgan Stanley, BNPPAR is BNP Paribas, GS is Goldmans Sachs, Barc is Barclays, Rabo is Rabobank. Graphic courtesy of Climate Bond Initiative A total of US$32 billion of green climate bonds have been issued in the first three quarters of 2014. Climate ...

Investors commit to growing green bond market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... Green bonds and climate bonds are a means to do so. We stand ready to invest. ACTIAM intends to further increase its climate bond holdings of EUR 500 million, subject to market conditions and client demand, to EUR 1 billion by the end of 2015." Over ...

Universe of climate-linked bonds expands to US$502.6bn

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... climate-themed bonds is US$502.6 billion and the universe of labelled green bonds is US$38.8 billion, according to the Climate Bond Initiative's 2014 market report. Bridget Boulle, programme manager, Climate Bond Initiative According to Bonds and Climate ...

Barclays, MSCI to launch Green Bond Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... defined criteria for Green Bond classification," said Remy Briand, managing director and head of MSCI ESG Research. The Climate Bond Initiative has predicted that US$30-40 billion of green bonds will be issued in 2014, with around US$100 billion will ...

Climate Bonds Initiative proposes green property standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
The Climate Bond Green Property Working Group has issued proposed standards defining which buildings can be used as the basis for certified climate bonds. Sean Kidney, Climate Bonds Initiative chair The proposed rules are part of the Climate Bonds Standards ...

Solactive develops Green Bond Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... bonds." The index's universe is comprised of fixed income securities that are categorized as green bonds, as per the Climate Bond Initiative's definition. All bonds have an amount outstanding of at least US$100 million and a minimum remaining time to ...

IIGCC joins International Climate Bond Standards Board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
The Institutional Investor Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) has joined the I nternational Climate Bond Standards Board. IGCC represents more than 85 European institutional investors, with total funds under management of approximately EUR7.5 trillion. ...