Anglian Water has become the first UK company to issue a corporate green bond in the Canadian ‘maple’ bond market.

Tideway, the company building London’s new super sewer, has announced funding of the project to completion in 2025, with the agreement of another £300 million in Green Bonds. 

Affinity Water has announced that its financing subsidiary Affinity Water Finance PLC has issued a Class A £130 million 0.01 per cent CPI Linked Private Placement due September 2038.

Affinity Water has published its Green Finance Framework which aligns the company's strategic and sustainability priorities with its funding and financial strategy.

Anglian Water Group has made financial history by becoming the first water company in the world to launch a sustainability-linked bond connected directly to achieving its newly set interim carbon targets by 2025.

The North West’s water company, United Utilities, has attracted huge demand for its first ever sustainable bond issue, which was more than three times over-subscribed.

Anglian Water has reaffirmed its long-term commitment to utilising sustainable finance as it launches the Sustainable Finance Framework which will underpin the delivery of its capital programme for 2020-2025.

Southern Water has successfully secured £825 million in sustainable bonds in one of the biggest public market financing issues for the water sector.

Since it announced its first Green Bond in 2017, Anglian Water has funded a remarkable 850 capital investment projects through financing from Green Bonds totaling £811 million. 

A new partnership which includes the world's leading financial institutions with the aim of accelerating the issue of green bonds and crowding in additional climate finance has been launched at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco this week.