energy-policy

An oil & gas bond we knew would come eventually: Repsol: Good on GBPs, not so sure on green credentials:

Submitted on Tue, 2017-05-23 14:35

An oil & gas bond we knew would come eventually… Repsol: first oil & gas bond: good on GBPs, not so sure on green credentials:

Last week, the first green bond was issued by an oil company. Madrid based Repsol SA  issued a EUR500m bond maturing in 2022.  

Vanuatu lagoon musings / sunset for coal at EIB, WBnk, USExImBank / momentum for ‘Ditch Brown, Buy Green’

Submitted on Wed, 2013-07-31 04:18

I’m writing beside a beautiful lagoon on the tropical South Pacific island of Espiritu Santo, not far from where I was born and spent my early years.

Working on climate change introduces a note of melancholia to such holidays: how long before my waterside bungalow gets washed away in more extreme storm surges and rising sea levels? Does that bizarre tubular jellyfish that I managed to avoid snorkelling today represent the new dominant as oceans acidify?

At least there is good news on the energy front: