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Good Shepherd Microfinance launches Speckle, online cash-loan service

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... permanent resident, earn more than $30,000 a year (not inclusive of government benefits), have no more than 50% of their total income from government benefits and can't have had two or more small amount credit contracts in the last 90 days. Where applicants ...

Green bond issuance from China reached US$37.1 billion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... parties across different sectors. The China green bond market has grown steadily with issuance making up 22% of the world's total in 2017. " Separately, CBI announced that the Indonesia Stock Exchange ( IDX ) has become the first Exchange in Southeast ...

Instreet Investment takes majority stake in Acorns Grow Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... said it now has a majority stake in Acorns Grows Australia, but would not disclose the financial terms of the deal, nor its total holding in Acorns Grow Australia. Previously, Acorns Grow Australia Limited was a joint venture between Instreet Investment ...

Victorian government launches first social impact bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... people to get and sustain housing. The J2SI SIB will fund the expansion of the program starting August 2018, which will see a total of 180 participants - 60 per year for three years - who will receive support for three years. Under the terms of the structure ...

New Forests to sell carbon credits via Emissions Reduction Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... year," Brand said. "The project will be registered based on all the verification and the assumptions that go into it." In total the project is expected to deliver up to 68,959 tonnes of CO2e climate abatement over 10 years. "The sequestration happens ...

Clean Energy Finance Corporation backs large-scale solar developments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation has financed two more large-scale solar developments, meaning that their total investments have helped accelerate the delivery of more than 1GW of additional solar energy across 20 projects. Ian Learmonth, CEO, Clean ...

Climate Bonds Initiative analyses bond issuance from second quarter 2017

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... during the second quarter of 2017, with a combined face value of US$30 billion. The analysis in this paper is abed on a total sample of 131 bonds, 19 of which are green bonds and 112 are vanilla bonds. Climate Bonds Initiative notes that oversubscription ...

Clean Energy Finance Corporation publishes 2016/2017 annual report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... finance made up $1.012 billion, and co-financing programs made up $774 million. The equity portfolio made up 17% of the total CEFC portfolio and includes commitments in early stage companies through the Clean Energy Innovation Fund, the CEFC's first ...

Russell Investments launches Low Carbon Global Shares Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... Global Shares Fund uses Russell's proprietary green energy ratio, evaluates energy producers based on the percentage of total energy produced from green energy sources, scores each in a range from 'entirely green' to 'no exposure to green energy sources'. ...

New Forests purchases timberland estate in northern California

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... two other California forestry estates in 2016 and 2017, the Shasta Cascade Timberlands acquisition will bring New Forests' total US timberland under management to 186,000 acres. The acquired forests include high-quality stands of Douglas-fir, ponderosa ...