Ahead of this month’s World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in London, investors in the sector discuss what startups can do to attract more investors and keep their own finances under control, as borrowing costs soar.
The $122m project provides much needed green energy to Djibouti, which relies on fossil fuel imports to supply ailing power stations, and would have been near-impossible to build without using blended finance.
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.
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.
Snowball has invested in the recently closed Aristata Impact Litigation Fund which supports legal action by under-resourced groups, while achieving uncorrelated financial returns
Respondents show optimism over impact investment opportunities, an improved landscape for specialist recruitment and progress towards impact measurement harmonisation, but are less happy about regulatory developments.
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.
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