To scale carbon trading the Voluntary Carbon Market will have to become more transparent, providing investors with clearer means for evaluating investment opportunities.
Climate Investor Two, the second blended finance climate financing fund launched by investment manager Climate Fund Managers, announced its first close at $675mn.
Friends of the Earth Netherlands, an environmental group which won a landmark climate court case against Royal Dutch Shell in May, said it may target the banks that finance polluting companies.
The debt-for-nature swap (DNS) formally announced by Belize and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) during the COP26 climate change meeting in Glasgow could trigger a resurgence of the financial instrument.
Britain’s Prince Charles called it “the last chance saloon,” for our planet, while UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned world leaders at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow the “doomsday clock is still ticking.”
Hydrogen power will be on an accelerated growth trajectory in the next decade, says energy transition pioneer Kevin Chin. Government should support hydrogen similarly to how it created solar industry through well-targeted subsidies.
Katherine Garrett-Cox, one of the women to make it to the top of fund management in the City of London, talks about pioneering sustainability in the Middle East and keeping the oceans blue.
Although blended finance is on everyone’s lips, deal flow and transaction sizes dropped sharply in 2020, a new Convergence report finds. The industry tracker makes recommendations on how to achieve scale.
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