Investment

The Blue Mediterranean Partnership was launched at the COP27 climate talks in Egypt by the European Investment Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Union for the Mediterranean.

A new fund aims to blend $500m of concessional finance with $1.5bn of private investment to back local communities and entrepreneurs restoring land in Africa

The Dutch-headquartered asset manager is one of a growing number of institutions that say combatting biodiversity loss can also be an investment opportunity.  

The UK government-backed £30m fund aims to bring back Britain’s lost rainforests, which once covered large parts of its western coastline and inspired a classic crime novel.

The UK local authority pension fund has now invested a total of £20m in the National Homelessness Property Fund. The fund buys and renovates properties which then leases to the social housing sector and homelessness charities.

The UK commercial property investment manager will tie 30% of its performance fees to the fund’s specific impact objectives.   

The fund will invest in digital business models aimed at boosting the wellbeing of individuals through health and education and is backed by Germany’s Bank für Sozialwirtschaft as its anchor investor

Wellington’s head of sustainability Louise Kooy-Henckel tells us how their research team seeks out innovation and technology coming together to drive impact

Ocean impact investing is picking up speed as international institutional investors flocked to the Blue Ocean Fund, launched last year by Paris-based asset manager SWEN Capital Partners.

The new fund is targeting an additional €200m as it searches for companies offering scalable, disruptive technologies capable of slashing the carbon footprint of the transport sector.