Climate & environment

New guidance from the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation seeks to tackle potential conflicts between climate and biodiversity investments and provides recommendations on how to minimise the trade-offs.

The fund has invested in 11 companies operating across the energy, mobility, the built environment and technology enabling sectors. They will all join the Katapult accelerator programme.

The impact investor’s second credit impact fund aims to improve access to education, financial services and affordable housing for underserved demographic groups in developing markets.

Impact Investor talks to Nysnø’s investment director about the organisation’s role in the energy transition and the challenges and opportunities for investment in climate tech.  

All 12 investments will join Katapult’s accelerator programme to improve their growth prospects and strengthen their impact focus. 

A just-released chapter of the latest Fiscal Monitor report by the IMF stresses that most of the investment needed to finance climate change mitigation initiatives in emerging and developing countries must come from the private sector.

Financial reporting on a complex web of nature-related impacts is a step up from climate impact reporting, but the TNFD believes its framework will enable organisations to get the ball rolling.   

We sit down with Jean de Fougerolles, managing partner and founder of impact venture capitalists Ascension, to discuss how ‘tech for good’ can deliver returns and positive impact for people and planet.

The asset manager has created a high yield fund that qualifies for the EU’s Article 9 label, with the aim to provide a more sustainable investment option for pension funds and insurance companies.  

Catastrophe bonds, or cat bonds, are attracting more interest from investors looking for opportunities in the fast-growing insurance linked securities. We meet some of the players in this space to understand how the sector is developing.