Climate & environment

The Green Earth Impact Fund is seeking to attract up to $250m of investment in fund aiming to close the public-private financing gap for sustainable investments. 

The fund is the first to be launched on Lloyd’s new investment platform, created as a vehicle to pool the collective resources of the insurance market’s investors.

New guidance from the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance asks for investment in oil and gas projects to be reduced to speed up the energy transition has received a mixed response. 

The Article 9 fund aims to deliver a total return with a reduced environmental footprint compared to the benchmark, measured using carbon, water and waste footprint metrics.

Most of the total capital raised by net zero-aligned-funds was directed towards meeting UN sustainable development goals relating to clean energy (SDG 7), and climate action (SDG 13).

Climate change is making investing in the meat industry increasingly controversial. Several Dutch pension funds are leaving large Brazilian meat companies, according to a FD report. Are pension funds turning vegetarian?

The Urban Resilience Fund is a multi-vehicle blended finance initiative, backed by DFIs and other investors, to support climate-focused projects in sub-Saharan Africa.

We need to strengthen regulations and sharpen reporting around misleading climate-related communications, according to Lindsay Otis Nilles of Carbon Market Watch.

The latest report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns there is little chance for the world to meet the climate targets agreed in Paris seven year ago – but not all is lost.

The initiative aims to change the financial sector’s perception of water: not as an isolated sector but as an entry-point for multi-sector, local and regional impact investment opportunities.