Infrastructure

A $70m guarantee supports a sustainability bond and a loan for CamGSM, which will use the proceeds to provide improved telecoms services for a million Cambodians.

Nanogence, a Swiss building material innovation company, has received capital commitments from investors, including the UK’s Planet First Partners, CirCap, and the EIC Fund.

Legal & General Capital has committed a further $100m to the impact investment advisory firm which provides debt financing for sustainable infrastructure projects in the Global South.

Launched in collaboration with its subsidiaries LBP AM and CNP Assurances, the new fund will finance European infrastructure projects aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change.

Funding is not going to the low and middle-income countries that most need it, says the Amsterdam-based impact investment adviser.

The fund is intended to help narrow Africa’s infrastructure spending gap, building on Africa50’s existing portfolio of major projects across the continent.  

Backed by the Private Infrastructure Development Group and the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund, among other investors, the new plant marks a significant milestone for Africa’s energy transition efforts

In the first of two articles on the topic of capacity building, we look at how impact investors are going beyond just injecting capital to providing the support portfolio companies need for their long-term sustainability.

Place-based investing is now central to social impact investing in the UK and gaining strong pension fund support. Many of the lessons learned there can be applied elsewhere in Europe.

The water infrastructure funding gap is the largest of any infrastructure sector in Africa. We sit down with Metito’s Rami Ghandour and BII’s Chris Chijiutomi to discuss their Africa Water Infrastructure Development (AWID) initiative.