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  • Germany's IPO renaissance is continuing with the flotation of Freidrich Vorwerk, the energy infrastructure construction company, which is due to price later today.
  • An innovative collaboration between six organisations from different sectors has led to the creation of the Subnational Climate Finance Initiative, which will work with local governments in developing countries to fund green infrastructure. The scheme highlights the value — but also the difficulty — of blended finance.
  • Europe’s slow rollout of Covid-19 vaccines is beginning to damage confidence in a quick economic rebound this year, leading some investors to step back from value trades in pandemic-exposed cyclical stocks and enter new positions in high-growth momentum trades, particularly renewable energy stocks.
  • Neoen, the French renewable energy company, launched a €600m rights issue on Tuesday to fund its investment pipeline. Sources close to the deal are confident of its success.
  • Sustainability is likely to have a pivotal place in prudential discussions and properties secured on energy efficient mortgages could be in line for more favourable treatment than vanilla ones, the European Covered Bond Council and European Mortgage Federation’s secretary general, Luca Bertalot told GlobalCapital.
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    Environmentalists were outraged on Thursday to learn from a leaked document that the European Commission is considering the option of including some gas power stations in its Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities.