Climate & environment

Backed by the UN Environment Programme Finance Institute, the framework offers investors metrics on how to assess the impacts of investing in climate adaptation and resilience.

More than 150 brands and suppliers in the apparel and footwear industry use Carbonfact software to help them to better understand where their carbon emissions come from and how they can reduce them.

The investment from Zurich-based responsAbility, following on from one from the Development Bank of Austria, reflects growing interest in supporting India’s energy transition among international investors.

How can pension funds and other institutional investors help ensure a just transition to a more sustainable economy? Join us on 16 May at The Conduit in London to explore this critical question.

Following a 10-year low in blended finance investment in 2022, multilateral development banks and development finance institutions are investing in greater sums to tackle climate change. 

Global investment firm Cambridge Associates is one of the investors in the new fund, which is focused on making the seafood value chain less wasteful.

Plastic waste is a big problem, but less so if it can be turned into second-hand plastic or even oil. That’s the market investment fund Infinity Recycling operates in.

The Dutch sustainable lender is calling for “an urgent shift” from a wasteful and linear system to a restorative and circular economy, and believes the financial sector has a role to play.

The first annual Impact Investor Forum brings together an array of pension fund practitioners and industry experts to look at how institutional investors are engaging with the just transition.

Acre Impact Capital has raised $100m to plug the financing gap for state-sponsored climate-aligned infrastructure projects in Africa with targeted debt financing.