Investment

The guidance highlights some of the barriers to scaling blended finance and provides strategic advice and practical insights to help policymakers and practitioners use it more effectively.

The commitment reinforces European support for Vietnam’s just energy transition partnership, aimed at accelerating its move to net zero.

UBP’s head of impact investing talks about how demand for impact from private investors is changing, the role of the younger generations, and how bankers are presenting impact investing to their clients.

Under the theme ‘Future-proofing Impact: investing in a shifting world’, the fourth edition of our annual conference returns to The Hague on 11 November, bringing together key stakeholders from across the impact investing sector.

The Ikea-backed company’s business model is based on circularity, with furniture pieces that are no longer needed being refurbished and reused.

Alotta, which has developed floating solar solutions, has raised NOK 63.5m and announced a power purchase agreement with Chilean salmon farmer Mowi Chile.  

The new fund aims to help trustees of UK-based charities balance the funding of their activities whilst safeguarding capital for the future.

Although Vietnam has made progress in reducing poverty and growing its economy in recent years, its small and medium-sized businesses often struggle to access financing, according to the DFI.

In the past decade, the European Investment Bank has committed €2bn to future-proofing Dutch water projects against climate change.

The latest report by the Global Impact Investing Network reveals strong growth in impact-related private equity investments, with pension funds now supplying the largest pool of impact capital, reflecting greater institutional involvement.