Climate & environment

The EIB funding will be used to boost Resato Hydrogen Technology’s production capacity to 1,000 hydrogen refuelling stations by 2030, according to the firm.

State-owned COFIDES has recently announced investments from two of its funds, the €400m Social Impact Fund, and the €2bn Co-investment Fund. Both funds are backed by financing from the post-COVID EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility.

After substantial growth and evolution last year, Impact Investor speaks to leading voices in the industry about what they see as key developments, challenges and opportunities in 2025.

The fund, managed by ASR Real Estate, invests in the Dutch agricultural sector and has attracted more than €550m of commitments since it was opened to outside investors in 2022.

The transaction is the first debt conversion for nature to focus funding on terrestrial and freshwater conservation rather than on marine environments.

The new fund will invest in around 20 early stage companies within climate tech, including in the blue economy, in the European Union and the Nordics.

The new initiative falls under BII’s recently launched £100m mobilisation facility that’s aimed at unlocking private capital for emerging economies deemed to be too risky by international investors.

The loan will enable Nature Impact to restore more than 120 acres of degraded UK farmland, and is the first private commercial debt package from Triodos based on a Biodiversity Net Gain unit model.

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PGGM among investors committing €120m to Elyse Energy to accelerate the development of its e-methanol and sustainable aviation fuel production projects in France and the Iberian Peninsula.