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A consortium of French institutions have chosen Mirova to manage the Fonds Objectif Biodiversité, which will focus on investment solutions targeting biodiversity preservation.

The International Foundation for Valuing Impact’s interim methodologies will enable companies and investors to measure and value the most significant environmental impacts across the categories of air pollution, land use and conversion, waste and water pollution.

The impact investing market is growing fast indicating mainstream acceptance of the sector. Still, the pace of capital allocation towards the SDGs is far from sufficient to tackle the worst effects of climate change and global inequality, according to the GIIN.

The newly elected government has met leading figures from the country’s impact investment sector in a bid to mobilise funding for housing and other social priorities.

The global credit strategy, which aims to address real world issues such as affordable housing, community development and climate has the backing of Gjensidige Pensjonsforsikring, and TIAA.

Impact fund manager Gaia highlights the challenges facing the transition to clean energy in sub-Saharan Africa in the absence of a viable secondary market.

The Transform Health Fund aims to provide a template for blended finance in Africa’s healthcare sector. Following the fund’s close, we talk about progress so far with Martin Edlund of the Health Finance Coalition, one of the fund’s founding organisations. 

The 16th annual PRI in Person conference, held in Toronto, covered a range of issues, including addressing inequality and investing for real-world impact.

The fund will invest in global bonds or the bonds of issuers that support the transition towards improved ocean and freshwater health.

The financing of the Dutch life sciences company is supported by the European Commission under its InvestEU programme. Lumicks aims to impact more than one million lives by 2027.

The new index will give investors the chance to see what impact government policy is having on nature, and help assess a country’s nature and biodiversity risks, according to the firm.

The fund attracted investment from a big investor in Switzerland as well as some of the biggest pension funds in the Netherlands.

A programme aimed at cutting emissions from cotton farming is expanding its activities in core countries India and the US, with plans to reach over 90,000 farmers in coming years.

The Italian impact fund, which focuses on high-growth companies in the health and wellbeing sectors, is aiming to double its fundraising target next year.

Pension funds provided one-fifth of all investments, with a strong focus on social and affordable housing, according to a report by Better Society Capital.

The Netherlands-based investment manager is looking to strengthen its advisory services and gain better access to impact investing solutions, particularly in the field of biodiversity.

IFB’s new report unveils four proposals aimed at unlocking private capital and government resources to accelerate the growth of sustainable and impact investments in Belgium.

The UK-based Local Government Pension Scheme collective has made an initial investment into impact real estate of £100m in order to speed up the decarbonisation of existing assets.

The Dutch pension fund of the Dutch-Belgian retail giant has set an impact mandate of €300m. Achmea IM will provide strategic advice, as well as select and monitor funds aligned with the pension fund’s impact themes of climate and nutrition.

The Spanish private equity firm specialises in investing in sustainable small and medium-sized businesses. Its impact fund is centred around three core themes: healthier lives, thriving communities, and regenerative planet.

The organisations launched a set of recommendations to boost impact investing in the European Parliament this week, calling for closer collaboration between public, private and philanthropic actors to maximise impact.