The fund will provide unitranche funding to French and European SMEs, while encouraging the companies they finance to take account of environmental and social concerns.
The funding will support the growth of Swiss-based carbon removal developer Neustark which has developed a technology aimed at decarbonising the construction industry.
British International Investment, the UK’s development finance institution, is funding a second green bond arranged by Symbiotics, lending to MSME banks supporting India’s green energy goals.
From strategies that prioritise local impact, to those focused on emerging markets, European pension funds are upscaling their commitments to investments where impact and returns can go hand-in-hand as ABP, Railpen and Post NL tell us.
Three leading European pension funds – PensionDanmark, Avon Pension Fund and KLP – shares their views on the just transition and their approach to impact investing in general.
Emerging markets are a central piece of the just transition puzzle. How are pension funds and other institutional investors redefining their emerging market exposure to support a fairer transition to a greener economy? From our ‘Impact Investing and the Just Transition’ report.
‘ESG tourists’ are packing their bags as the depth and breadth of anti-greenwashing regulation and recent underperformance takes hold, according to latest impact report by WHEB Asset Management.
Analysis from European Women in VC, Founders Forum Group and Tech Nation has highlighted the need for more institutional investment into European venture capital.
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