Climate & environment

Closing the climate investment gap in emerging and developing markets will take political will, according to a paper by the Net-Zero Asset Owners Alliance urging policymakers to help scale blended finance structures

We sit down with Avent Bezuidenhoudt, the newly-appointed CEO of Earth Capital, to understand her mission as she takes the helm of the boutique impact investor 

ASN Impact Investors is asking for help from the public to find listed companies which don’t damage nature. So far, the investor has only identified three companies that fit the bill, representing 0.01% of publicly listed companies

José María Ortiz, head of the impact investment division at consultancy Palladium, believes nature-based solutions will become a much larger part of investors’ portfolios

Investments in the new fund include Neggst, a Berlin-based startup which has developed a plant-based egg and has raised €5m in its first fundraising round 

Impact Investor speaks to carbon removal experts to understand the investment opportunities in a nascent but fast-growing industry 

Climate Innovation Fund, APG and Nysnø Climate Investments are among the investors backing the new fund which will invest in European companies working to accelerate decarbonisation

Rapid government action is needed to support climate-related investments by the private sector, according to the Investor Agenda group 

The blended finance initiative will back companies offering affordable insurance products to mitigate climate risks for vulnerable farming communities in developing countries

In this book, the author presents a critique of the current economic system and its devastating impact on biodiversity. But his “anti-capitalism conservation movement” is too fantastical to have merit, writes Christopher Walker