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- Transition Finance
Rezolv secures up to €561m from 14 lenders for 1.3GW Dama Solar
The EIB anchors the package under an InvestEU guarantee, with Romanian contracts for difference covering 520MW of the build.
- Products
MUFG launches EU green deposit product with Subaru Europe as first client
The EU version adds a market to a product MUFG introduced in the US in 2021 and the UK in 2023.
- The Wrap
Hong Kong prices $2.6 billion tokenized green bond with tokenized deposit settlement
The four-tranche deal drew subscriptions from 1.3 to 11.3 times, with tokenized deposits settling the Hong Kong dollar tranche.
- Transition Finance
Clean Growth Fund co-leads £10m Series A into cement recycler Reclinker
The Cardiff startup, founded in 2022, says its electric-arc-furnace process could cut cement emissions 50% at cost parity with conventional product.
- Products
Hong Kong prices US$2.6 billion digital green bond in fourth tokenized sale
The four-tranche offering drew subscription ratios of 1.3 to 11.3 times and put tokenized deposits into the Hong Kong dollar tranche's settlement.
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- Transition Finance
UBM Development sets 7% coupon on five-year green bond of up to €100m
The Austrian developer's final issue size depends in part on an exchange offer for its existing 2023-2027 green bond, which closes on 16 October.
- Policy & Disclosure
Three Democratic state finance officials press SEC to extend Rule 14a-8 comment period
The current window closes Nov. 20, and the officials warn that a state-by-state patchwork would cost public pension funds.
- The Wrap
Thailand's nature KPI bond draws 2.8 times its $450 million target
Thailand's 15-year deal drew subscriptions 2.8 times its $450 million planned size, while Ukraine's 2026–2028 framework carries a taxonomy and monitoring regime with no financing figure attached.
- The Wrap
Urgewald finds UK banks lent $8.3bn to coal as European lending fell 46%
Barclays and HSBC are named among the banks that increased exposure over 2022–2025, as Brussels weighs a delay to methane rules on imported oil and gas.
- Products
Thailand raises $750 million in Asia-Pacific's first sovereign sustainability-linked bond with a nature KPI
ADB-supported 15-year deal issued 17 September drew subscriptions 2.8 times its $450 million planned size.
- Policy & Disclosure
Ukraine approves ESG roadmap for 2026–2028 reconstruction finance
The framework sets out a sustainable-activity taxonomy, corporate due diligence expectations and monitoring of sustainable finance flows, with no financing figure attached.
- Who's investing
Oregon's $104.6bn pension fund extends emissions reporting to private assets
The Treasury plans to add an engagement specialist and has commissioned Oakledge Advisors to convene a peer group on carbon accounting for complex portfolios.
- Transition Finance
HisWay Labs secures early funding for South African rail resilience
ImpactAlpha reports the South African rail resilience startup has drawn US and European interest, but names no check size, backers or customers.
- The Wrap
CIP's credit platform leads Antora battery equity as NBIM commits to CI VI
Antora also announced an offtake to supply Pratt Energy beginning in 2027.
- Transition Finance
CIP's credit platform leads equity in Antora's 5.8 GWh Kansas battery
Grok Ventures and University Pension Plan Ontario joined the CIP-led third-party equity; Antora also announced an offtake to supply Pratt Energy beginning in 2027.
- Who's investing
Nest awards Wellington a £3.5bn emerging markets mandate for ESG risk and stewardship
The £68bn scheme says the appointment followed an internal review and is meant to strengthen ESG risk management and deepen company-level engagement.
- Transition Finance
IFM survey finds 81% of investors eyeing transition-linked private assets
Pension funds and insurers made up most of the 700 respondents, and interest ran strongest in Europe, Net Zero Investor reports.
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- The Wrap
FCA drops plans for mandatory IFRS-based climate reporting as EU anti-greenwashing rules take effect
ESG Today's week-in-review places the change next to ISO's proposed net zero standard failing an initial vote and Vanguard's finding on younger investors' ESG voting choices.
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- The Wrap
Data-center lenders screen on-site water; power-plant water use goes unpriced
Ceres and Bluefield Research find most of a data center's water footprint comes from electricity generation, with no settled measure to underwrite.
- Products
Garanti BBVA completes $125m Tier II bond with IFC and DEG for green SMEs
The 10-year subordinated issue earmarks proceeds for micro-enterprise and SME equipment investments and women entrepreneurs' access to finance.
- Transition Finance
NYK agrees to buy 30% stake in Norway's Trudvang CCS project
The Japanese shipping group would hold the interest through a planned Norwegian subsidiary, extending its carbon capture exposure beyond liquefied CO₂ shipping.
- Transition Finance
CIF endorses $250 million package for Türkiye industrial decarbonization
CIF expects the package to mobilize $2.8 billion, with $1.93 billion from multilateral development bank partners.
- Transition Finance
NOX Energy raises €3 million seed for home-device grid flexibility
The Belgian startup says it has connected more than 10,000 devices; the seed capital will fund expansion beyond Belgium and the Netherlands and a push to embed optimization in manufacturers' apps.
- Transition Finance
NBIM commits €1.2bn to CIP's sixth renewables fund, up from €900m
The allocation to Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners' CI VI targets development-stage generation and storage in OECD markets, extending a partnership that began with the €900m commitment to CI V.
- The Wrap
Stegra says Boden green steel plant will cost more
Contracted offtake underpins the EIB loan and Amazon's 20-year PPA, while Stegra's Boden steel plant says completion will cost significantly more.
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- The Wrap
Nest replaces 1,000-stock EM book with 100-150 as NYC boards weigh $5bn climate allocation
Nest says it chose Wellington's mandate for engagement capability, while the boards of three New York City pension funds will run independent fiduciary reviews of the proposed climate allocation.
- Policy & Disclosure
Canada's sustainable finance taxonomy consultation finds two thirds oppose oil and gas abatement category
More than three quarters of respondents backed the draft's Green approach and two thirds backed Transition, while support for Abatement came with demands to exclude fossil fuel expansion.
- Transition Finance
Stegra needs more capital for Boden green steel plant after 100-day review
The Swedish developer, which closed a €1.4 billion round in June, says completing the project will cost significantly more than assumed.
- Who's investing
Nest awards Wellington a £3.5bn emerging markets equity mandate
The UK pension scheme is replacing a roughly 1,000-stock systematic portfolio with a 100-to-150-stock active one it says it chose for engagement capability.
- The Wrap
FCA drops mandatory climate proposal and extends comply-or-explain to ISSB-aligned UK standards
Final rules cover climate and general sustainability for accounting periods starting January 1, 2027, with initial reports due in 2028.
- Transition Finance
Amazon signs 20-year PPA for Calvert Cliffs nuclear uprate
The 690 MW purchase supports a 190 MW addition due online between 2030 and 2032 and Constellation's bid to relicense the 1,790 MW Maryland plant.
- Products
Vanguard proxy-voting data: younger investors pick its ESG option at twice the older rate
The Glass Lewis ESG Policy drew 38.8% of investors under 30 in the 2026 season, but its asset-weighted share of selections fell to 12% from 18%.
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- Transition Finance
UK banks provided $8.3bn to coal companies over 2022–2025 as European lending fell 46%
Urgewald's count of 744 commercial banks puts global financing of the coal value chain at an estimated $467bn for the period, with Barclays and HSBC named as increasing their exposure.
- Policy & Disclosure
FCA drops mandatory climate proposal and extends comply-or-explain to ISSB-aligned UK standards
The final rules cover both climate and general sustainability standards for accounting periods starting January 1, 2027, with initial reports due in 2028.
- Products
EIB and BNP Paribas split $794m grid guarantee
Each bank takes up to $397 million of exposure inside a $1.70 billion package supported by InvestEU, while only two of the week's six announcements report money raised.
- Products
Italy's green bond draws $129bn of orders for $9.4bn sale
The 12-year BTP Green carries a 4.40% coupon and a 4.492% gross yield, with more than 330 investors bidding and building efficiency and clean transport expected to take the largest shares of proceeds.
- Transition Finance
EIB and BNP Paribas split a $794m guarantee portfolio for EU grid equipment
Each institution takes up to $397 million of exposure inside a $1.70 billion pan-EU grid package supported by InvestEU.
- Transition Finance
Cowboy Clean Fuels sells its first durable carbon removal credits in Salesforce-backed deal
The Wyoming producer stores carbon in depleted coalbed methane reservoirs while producing renewable natural gas, with delivery scheduled for 2026.
- The Wrap
Reverion raises $175m for a fuel-cell factory and Italy sells €8bn green bond
Most of the Munich spin-off's round funds a plant that lifts annual capacity tenfold to 250 MW, alongside a $3.3bn UK fusion package and a £4bn grid body due to be announced.
- Products
Enable Ventures raises $50.3 million for a disability tech fund
The impact raise arrives without a stated target, close date or backer list, and lands below the comparable vehicles covered here this year.