Climate & environment

The Dutch pension fund of the Dutch-Belgian retail giant has set an impact mandate of €300m. Achmea IM will provide strategic advice, as well as select and monitor funds aligned with the pension fund’s impact themes of climate and nutrition.

The latest GIIN report shows impact-related investments in public debt, real assets and public equity, in particular, have grown strongly over the last five years, reflecting a move into more sophisticated asset classes.

The investor is seeking to support emerging markets infrastructure development in the areas of renewable energy, clean mobility, health, water, and sanitation.

Danish company MATR Foods has signed a €20m loan agreement with the European Investment Bank to expand production of its clean label plant-based meat alternatives.

UK impact investor Rob Gardner hopes to revolutionise investing in nature-based solutions with his latest fund management venture, Rebalance Earth.

Summa Equity has invested in Nutris, a Croatian factory developing sustainable protein sources from fava beans, through the €2.3bn Summa Equity Fund III.

A joint study by the University of Zurich and Robeco shows why it pays off to bet on sustainable companies, and argues for new measure of corporate sustainability, based on the UN SDGs.

Acquiring accurate impact data to support impact investments does not have to mean swamping the often-limited resources of intermediary and beneficiary organisations with complex data requests, according to Oxford University researchers.

The IFC has launched an initiative to help banks integrate climate risk in their decision-making processes and build resilience against the impacts of climate change on their businesses and on loan portfolios.

The latest monthly report from the Amsterdam-based consultancy shows growth of more than 10% in both the number of infrastructure impact funds on its database and the amount of capital raised by them over the last year.