Investment

The funding by the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor will boost the national grid’s supply of sustainable and affordable electricity in low-income areas in rural Tanzania.

The credit investment into agricultural financing firm Samunnati aims to economically support farmers while facilitating climate-positive practices. 

The 2X Challenge initiative is aiming to push more investment towards empowering women in the workplace, while a key blended finance microfinance project has switched focus to gender-lens investing.

Emerging markets are a central piece of the just transition puzzle. How are pension funds and other institutional investors redefining their emerging market exposure to support a fairer transition to a greener economy? From our ‘Impact Investing and the Just Transition’ report.

The UK-based sustainable growth equity investment platform focuses on scaling companies that directly contribute to the climate transition.

The Candriam Sustainable Equity Water Fund will invest in listed companies providing solutions to treat, transport, distribute and capture the value of water, as well as those reducing water intensity in high water use sectors.

Can you trust investors who buy an impact-driven company to safeguard that mission? Social entrepreneur and impact investor Willemijn Verloop explained why she thinks you can’t, speaking at Impact Europe’s event in The Hague this week.

A report published by Impact Europe looks into how companies and corporate organisations conduct impact investing as a key part of their sustainability strategies.

Funded by the Ikea Foundation, the two organisations will work together on a catalytic pilot investment in the Mount Kenya landscape.

‘ESG tourists’ are packing their bags as the depth and breadth of anti-greenwashing regulation and recent underperformance takes hold, according to latest impact report by WHEB Asset Management.