2016 Banking Green Bonds 
Corporate Knights
APRIL 21, 2025
From the ranking leader Hydro-Qubecs $155-billion green-energy expansion plan, to 12th-place Bpifrance banks financing solar and wind power loans, the inaugural list shows how investments in renewable energy pay off. Bpifrance Bpifrance is a French public-sector bank that bills itself as a one stop shop for entrepreneurs.
Corporate Knights
APRIL 21, 2025
Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG Sustainable development bank Oesterreichische Kontrollbank (OeKB) or Austrian Control Bank is a special-purpose financial institution owned by Austrias main banks. The company recently closed a green bond offering that will help it transition to predominantly renewable sources of power.
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Edouard Stenger
MAY 24, 2017
Part of this revolution is the meteoritic growth of green bonds, which were started in 2007 by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank. If growth was slow from the first green bond issuance to 2012, things have accelerated since. Green bonds are indeed often oversubscribed due to their success.
Chris Hall
JUNE 28, 2024
Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson, Iceland’s Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, talks about the country’s inaugural green bond issuance, which was promptly followed by the world’s first sovereign gender bond. This year has already started strong, with large-ticket green bond issuances from the EU, France, Austria and the UK.
Chris Hall
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
As of January 2023, green bonds had raised US$2.5 trillion globally, according to the World Bank from a mere US$15 billion in 2013. Part-credit for this meteoritic growth has been given to the Green Bond Principles (GBP) launched in 2014. we combine this so the guidance draws on that ”.
Chris Hall
MARCH 13, 2023
Recent market activity includes the African Development Bank issuing an inaugural NOK 1 billion (US$93.9 Late last year, the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund also issued the first ever green b ond in Kenya, which saw KES 1.3 Generally green bonds are the most common label and that’s the same in Africa.
Chris Hall
OCTOBER 20, 2023
Sovereigns have been relatively late entrants to sustainable bond markets following corporates and supra-national entities (such as the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development), which issued the first green debt securities in the mid-2000s.
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