{"id":23438,"date":"2015-07-21T10:19:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T09:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rtcc.org\/?p=23438"},"modified":"2015-07-21T10:19:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T09:19:04","slug":"wind-company-raises-300m-in-first-chinese-green-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2015\/07\/21\/wind-company-raises-300m-in-first-chinese-green-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind company raises $300m in first Chinese green bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>Xinjiang-based Goldwind leads race to tap debt finance for environmental goals in world&#8217;s highest emitting country<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21953\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21953\" class=\"size-large wp-image-21953\" src=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2015\/04\/China-wind-farm-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"Green bond will be used to support Chinese wind power business (Pic: Flickr\/Land Rover Our Planet)\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" itemprop=\"image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2015\/04\/China-wind-farm-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2015\/04\/China-wind-farm-112x63.jpg 112w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2015\/04\/China-wind-farm-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2015\/04\/China-wind-farm.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-21953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green bond will be used to support Chinese wind power business (Pic: Flickr\/Land Rover Our Planet)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rtcc_megan\" target=\"_blank\">Megan Darby<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chinese wind power company Goldwind has raised US$300 million in the country&#8217;s first green bond issue.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The financial product was nearly five times oversubscribed, with $1.4 billion worth of demand.<\/p>\n<p>It will help fund the world&#8217;s highest emitting nation\u00a0on its course\u00a0to get 20% of energy from non-fossil fuel sources by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>A taskforce led by the People&#8217;s Bank of China estimates the country needs US$320 billion a year 2016-2020 to fund environmental goals in its five-year plan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/07\/20\/china-greenbond-idUSL4N0ZW4XN20150720\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These included cleaning up smoggy cities and drinking water, as well as curbing greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2015\/07\/07\/china-poised-for-a-boom-in-green-bonds\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Report:\u00a0<\/strong>China poised for a boom in green bonds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bonds are a\u00a0stable, predictable type\u00a0of investment\u00a0attractive to institutions like pension funds and insurers. Globally, the bond market is worth some $100 trillion a year.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;green&#8221; label is a recent development aimed at directing\u00a0funds towards\u00a0sustainable projects. In this case, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnvgl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">DNV GL<\/a> has verified Goldwind&#8217;s green credentials.<\/p>\n<p>Following\u00a0a growth spurt, the green bond market got off to a slow start in 2015, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2015\/07\/07\/china-poised-for-a-boom-in-green-bonds\/\" target=\"_blank\">latest figures<\/a> from the Climate Bonds Initiative show.<\/p>\n<p>But Sean Kidney, head of the initiative,\u00a0expressed a &#8220;cautious optimism&#8221; things would pick up, driven by interest from emerging markets including India and Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no doubt that China is the most exciting story,\u201d\u00a0he told RTCC, with its central bank having drawn up guidelines for issuing green bonds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS: Xinjiang-based Goldwind leads race to tap debt finance for environmental goals in world&#8217;s highest emitting 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