{"id":4680,"date":"2019-08-16T09:52:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T06:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4680"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","slug":"kenya-approves-issuance-of-first-green-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/16\/kenya-approves-issuance-of-first-green-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Approves Issuance Of First Green Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Reuters<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenya has approved its first-ever issuance of a green bond, which will raise 5 billion shillings ($48.45 million) for student accommodation, the capital markets regulator CMA said on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So-called green bonds are fixed-income securities that raise capital for projects in renewable energy, energy efficiency, green transport, and waste-water treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nbond, to be issued by a Nairobi-based property developer called Acorn, comes\nafter authorities unveiled new rules in February designed to guide the issuance\nof green bonds\u2026<a href=\"http:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20190815081221-z77nk\/\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Reuters Kenya has approved its first-ever issuance of a green bond, which will raise 5 billion shillings ($48.45 million) for student accommodation, the capital markets regulator CMA said on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}