Climate & environment

With 25,200 times more global warming potential than CO2, sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) is the strongest greenhouse gas in the atmosphere and emissions are rising. 

Husk Power Systems announced its ‘Africa Sunshot’ initiative at the Africa Climate Summit held in Nairobi. The goal is to have 2,500 net-zero mini-grids operating across the continent within five years.

Paptic has developed its eponymous packaging material from renewable wood fibres as a more sustainable alternative to plastic.

Snowball has invested in the recently closed Aristata Impact Litigation Fund which supports legal action by under-resourced groups, while achieving uncorrelated financial returns 

The European Investment Fund is backing Infinity Recycling’s Circular Plastics Fund which invests in companies developing advanced technologies for the recycling of plastics.

The acute need for innovative approaches to the water crises affecting large swathes of the world was debated at last week’s World Water Week in Stockholm.

Investments aim to facilitate the adoption of climate-positive technologies by smaller Indian companies, mitigating carbon emissions in one of the world’s largest and most rapidly developing economies. 

One-third of food is wasted across the value chain every year, enough to feed two billion people. Impact Investor caught up with three investment specialists to understand the challenge and the potential investment solutions.

Ocean 14 Capital and Norselab have invested in the Norwegian company which has developed an alternative, non-invasive harvesting technique for bottom-dwelling seafood.

Rupesh Madlani, co-founder and CEO of Bankers without Boundaries, explains how this non-profit applies financial concepts and structuring to high impact projects to align them with the investment needs of capital markets.