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Neste Oyj — Capital/Financing Update 2021
Mar 18, 2021
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Capital/Financing Update
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Neste Corporation issues EUR 500 million green bond
Neste Corporation issues EUR 500 million green bond
Neste Corporation, Stock Exchange Release, 18 March 2021 at 8 p.m. (EET)
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Neste Corporation issues a EUR 500 million green bond. The 7-year bond carries a
coupon of 0.75 per cent. The bond offering was allocated to approximately 120
investors. Neste Corporation will apply for the listing of the bond on the
official list of sustainable bonds of Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. The bond represents
the first issuance under the newly established Green Finance Framework.
The proceeds from the issue will be used in accordance with the Neste
Corporation’s Green Finance Framework to for example investments into the
development, operations, maintenance and expansion of the company’s renewable
and circular solutions with the objective to mitigate climate change globally by
reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Barclays Bank Ireland PLC, Citigroup Global Markets Limited and Nordea Bank Abp
acted as joint lead managers for the transaction and Nordea Bank Abp acted as
Green Structuring Advisor.
“With the issuance of our first Green Bond, we are providing investors the
opportunity to support our objective to mitigate climate change globally by
reducing greenhouse gas emissions through our renewable and circular solutions,”
says Mika Rydman, Vice President and Group Treasurer, Neste.
Neste Corporation
Susanna Sieppi
Vice President, Communications
More information:
Mika Rydman, Vice President and Group Treasurer, Neste.
Please contact Neste’s media service, tel. +358 50 458 5076 / [email protected]
(weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (EET)).
Neste in brief
Neste (NESTE, Nasdaq Helsinki) creates solutions for combating climate change
and accelerating a shift to a circular economy. We refine waste, residues and
innovative raw materials into renewable fuels and sustainable feedstock for
plastics and other materials. We are the world’s leading producer of renewable
diesel and sustainable aviation fuel, developing chemical recycling to combat
the plastic waste challenge. We aim at helping customers to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions with our renewable and circular solutions by at least 20 million
tons annually by 2030. As a technologically advanced refiner of high-quality oil
products with a commitment to reach carbon-neutral production by 2035, we are
also introducing renewable and recycled raw materials such as waste plastic as
refinery raw materials. We have consistently been included in the Dow Jones
Sustainability Indices and the Global 100 list of the world’s most sustainable
companies. In 2020, Neste's revenue stood at EUR 11.8 billion, with 94% of the
company’s comparable operating profit coming from renewable products. Read more:
neste.com (http://www.neste.com/en)
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