The UK local authority pension fund has now invested a total of £20m in the National Homelessness Property Fund. The fund buys and renovates properties which then leases to the social housing sector and homelessness charities.
The Sorting for Circularity Europe Project highlights the significant opportunity for circularity, with only 2% of post-consumer textiles diverted to fibre-to-fibre recycling today
Investments in the new fund include Neggst, a Berlin-based startup which has developed a plant-based egg and has raised €5m in its first fundraising round
Climate Innovation Fund, APG and Nysnø Climate Investments are among the investors backing the new fund which will invest in European companies working to accelerate decarbonisation
The subsidy-free fund has secured backing from pension funds and other institutional investors and plans to invest in new-build utility scale solar infrastructure projects across the UK
Lindsay Wake, head of impact for Social Investment Scotland, talks about how the organisation is driving mission-aligned investment across Scotland and their vision for an impact economy
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