Investment

A bid to save the Baltic Sea led to the founding of the world’s first green investment bank. To date, the Nordic Green Bank Nefco has helped more than 600 innovative companies to scale their businesses globally.

The Healthy Food Systems Impact Fund II, a recently launched fund by Pymwymic, a cooperative of European impact investors, has made its first investment.

Rob Appleby, the founder of The Cibus Funds, discusses the battle for one of the most important frontiers in sustainability.

As deforestation continues at an alarming rate, the &Green Fund has set itself a bold ambition. It wants to prove that responsible investment in large-scale agricultural production helps to protect tropical forests.

Steel has been grey to investors for hundreds of years – literally and figuratively. New technology is changing how they view one of the world’s most polluting industries.

A report from the International Finance Corporation shows sharp growth in global impact investment in 2020. The IFC also underlines that the private sector’s impact investments remain a tiny fraction of its overall investment.

Critics say a broad global equity portfolio cannot be considered impact investing if it includes mining and tobacco companies. Noel O’Halloran, chief investment officer at KBI Global Investors, disagrees.

This weighty academic tome tells you everything you want to know about the theory of impact investing, but less about the practice. It warns impact investors are overlooking human capital.

This summer Impact Investor talks to investors and entrepreneurs about how the pandemic has shifted priorities. This week: sustainability consultant Willem Schramade on ‘impact washing’ in times of crisis.

TCX, a forex hedging boutique, helped match Lendahand crowdfunding investors with solar developers in Ghana. According to TCX this is the first time that a retail lending platform managed to extend a local currency loan.