Climate & environment

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.

The Caribbean country plans to upgrade the resilience of water systems impacted by climate change by using funds freed up by a debt-for-climate swap.

The Biodiversity Impact Fund (BIF) will focus primarily on core themes such as regenerative agriculture, sustainable forestry, ocean preservation and sustainable fishery.

The Baku climate change summit produced an agreement by governments to increase spending on climate mitigation and adaptation, but how much of this finance will be used to leverage private sector funding remains to be seen.

At the Impact Investor conference, industry experts focused on the opportunities, challenges, and considerations when it comes to integrating biodiversity and natural capital into investment portfolios.

Atradius DSB, Lendahand and Carabus have joined forces to launch a new financing model, offering European retail investors full guarantees on their investments into social impact projects in emerging markets.

With more than half of global GDP dependent on systems provided by nature, protecting biodiversity plays a crucial role in keeping the world economy stable, the sustainable lender said in a new white paper.

The agreement was signed at COP16 with the aim of building resilience by developing nature-based solutions to face the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss.