IJGlobal ESG Awards 2025 – the transaction winners

Fresh off the stage from having presented the IJGlobal ESG Awards 2025, we are delighted now to be publishing the global transaction winners – excluding Asia Pacific – many of which were presented this evening.

The London event – staged today in the Sheraton Grand Hotel London on Park Lane – focused on winners from across the EMEA region and the Americas. The APAC awards will be presented in Singapore on 19 November.

This story focuses deal winners, celebrating achievements achieved by transactions that closed during the judging period and that drive the ESG agenda across the infrastructure and energy asset classes.

You can read about all award winners here and the victors in the companies category can be accessed here.

In a bid to drive the ESG message around the industry, all stories are open access and can be shared on socials as you see fit.

The transaction winners for IJGlobal ESG Awards 2025 in the transaction category are:

• Impact Deal of the Year – Hafslund Celsio EfW CCS, Oslo
• African Impact Deal of the Year – Empower New Energy, Nigeria
• Supply Chain Deal of the Year – SeAH Wind UK – offshore wind monopile factory, Teesside
• Net Zero Deal of the Year – Ørsted / Microsoft CCS agreement, Denmark
• Carbon Capture Storage Deal of the Year – HyNet’s Liverpool Bay CCS, UK
• Green Loan Deal of the Year – Keliber Lithium Mine, Finland
• Sustainability-Linked Loan Deal of the Year – Sustainable financing for the Republic of Rwanda
• Bond of the Year – CCMM's inaugural $500m bond issuance
• Circular Economy Deal of the Year – Vauban acquisition of stake in the Wijster companies, Netherlands
• Energy Transition Deal of the Year – NZT Power & Northern Endurance Partnership
• EV Infrastructure Deal of the Year – AESC gigafactory in Sunderland, UK
• Transportation Deal of the Year – Ionity’s 2025 European EV charging investment
• Infrastructure Deal of the Year – John Laing – Stegra Water Treatment Plant, Sweden
• Solar Deal of the Year – Verso Energy’s floating solar, France
• BESS Deal of the Year – Abydos energy storage extension, Egypt
• Resilience Deal of the Year – Structuring of FIDC Estímulo, Brazil