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Australia's green bond issuance tops $15 billion: Climate Bonds Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
... Initiative has released its Green Infrastructure Investment Opportunities Australia 2019 (GIIO) report, as well as the Green Finance State of the Market Australia (SoTM) 2019 report. The SoTM report that cumulative domestic green bond issuance reached ...

QIC Shopping Centre Fund issues $300m certified green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
... manage on behalf of our investors." The issuance of the QSCF bond "represents another step in the mainstreaming of green finance and sustainability" in built environment assets, said Sean Kidney, CEO of Climate Bonds Initiative. "Australia's property ...

Global issuance of green bonds tops $100 billion to date in 2019

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... group on sustainable finance (TEG) process will "help open the 2020s path towards the vital first trillion in annual green finance investment. " "The common definitions that the EU Taxonomy provide across broad sectors of the real economy, opens the ...

Sustainable Melbourne Fund receives new loan facility, new name

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019  |  NEWS
... $400 million green bond to finance the Woolworths 2020 sustainability strategy as signs of the growth in demand for green finance. "With this facility, we can do loans between ten thousand dollars and $20 million," Bocskay said. "Eighteen months ago ...

Woolworths Group to become first Australian retailer to issue Green Bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... and assets that deliver positive environmental and climate outcomes while also contributing to the development of green finance and Green Bond markets." Woolworths noted that its Green Bond Framework has initially been independently assured as to its ...

Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative sets ambitious investment agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... is modelled on groups including the European Union's High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance and the UK's Green Finance Taskforce, as well as initiatives in Norway and Canada, while broadening the remit to include the Sustainable Development Goals ...

Australia, EU Free Trade Agreement includes SDGs, climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... nationally or regionally, and the role of the Addis Adaba - Agreement on Financing Sustainable Development and related green finance agreements. But it is one of the important pieces, the part of a jigsaw in actually creating globalisation of sustainable ...

Natixis joins the Climate Bonds Initiative Partners Program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019  |  NEWS
... both the climate and the environment, in accordance with the Paris Agreement goals. "Natixis has been active in green finance with a long-standing commitment towards sustainability and tackling climate change," said Serena Vento, Head of Partnerships ...

BayernLB joins Climate Bond Initiative as Climate Bonds Partner

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... our partnership with the Climate Bonds Initiative is another step in our commitment to support the evolution of green finance." BayernLB has "gained extensive experience in the successful structuring and placement of sustainable securities for German ...

Finance sector calls for development of Sustainable Finance Roadmaps

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... around sustainable finance, including the European Commission's Action Plan for Financing Sustainable Growth, the UK Green Finance Taskforce, Canada's Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance, China's Green Credit Guidelines, Norway's Roadmap for Green Competitiveness ...