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The Atlantic hurricane season looms large this year, following 2023’s record number of billion-dollar disasters in over four decades of data collection. For …
Spring Meetings yield green shoots of development finance reform at the World Bank
Shutdown of Participant challenges other investors to drive impact through film
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Impact CEOs are navigating macro uncertainty with purpose
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The Week’s Dealflow: April 19, 2024
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Dealflow | Jessica Pothering
Deal spotlight: African banks help Acre Impact Capital bridge gaps in infrastructure finance
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Dealflow | Amy Cortese
Prime Coalition launches Trellis Climate to plug gaps for first-of-a-kind climate tech projects
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Dealflow | Lucy Ngige
Medulance scores $3 million to bring medical emergency response services to India’s smaller cities
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Dealflow | Jessica Pothering
Quilt raises $33 million to launch its sleek heat pump
The Brief
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The Week’s Podcasts
🎧 This Week in Impact. Host Brian Walsh and ImpactAlpha editor David Bank take up the good news on the good economy, Participant’s lasting legacy, and the signs of change at the World Bank. Plus: an early listen to the electrifying single, “I’m Your Heat Pump.”
This Week’s Chart
Tracking the transition. Energy professionals and policy wonks piled into a midtown hotel in New York this week for BloombergNEF’s energy transition summit. The talk of the town was how the Inflation Reduction Act in the US has spurred private climate investments as much as public spending. By the end of last year, more than 100 new factories had been planned in response to the IRA for a total of $123 billion in new manufacturing investment. Most of that went to batteries and solar. The policy boost is showing up globally as well. Reshoring and "friendshoring" has led to a surge of factory investment in the US, Europe and elsewhere. That’s expected to cut China’s share of global clean tech manufacturing investment to 64% by next year, from around 90% today. Globally, investment in solar and battery factories are outpacing BNEF’s net-zero scenario. “The costs are going to keep coming down, and that will be another accelerator,” said BNEF’s Jon Moore. – Amy Cortese
The Week’s Short Signals
🇪🇺 EU’s impact manifesto. Ahead of June’s European parliamentary elections, Impact Europe (formerly the European Venture Philanthropy Association) and impact investing networks in Belgium, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands launched a manifesto calling on European policymakers to unlock private capital for impact. Among the planks: enable retail investing for impact. (Impact Europe)
The Week’s Deal Spotlight
Deal spotlight: African banks help Acre Impact Capital bridge gaps in infrastructure finance. It’s taken three years for Mauritius-based Acre Impact Capital to reach a first close for its first infrastructure finance fund. The firm is filling a funding gap for African infrastructure projects that are heavily guaranteed by international export credit agencies but still need to prove they can be fully financed before banks will step in (see how it works). African banks, including South Africa’s Rand Merchant Bank, joined the European Investment Bank, FSDAi, Trimtab Impact and family office Ceniarth to enable Acre Impact Capital to fill that 15% commercial tranche of infrastructure project finance. “You want African investors investing in solutions that will improve the continent, and you want the returns of those investments to go to these investors so they will hopefully reinvest with impact and intentionality,” Acre’s Hussein Sefian told ImpactAlpha.
The Week’s Talent and Jobs
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The EPA’s $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund is intended to bring in at least seven times as much in private capital for …
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Nexamp snags a half-billion for community solar expansion
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The Biden administration’s “national green bank” program will come into focus today as vice president Kamala Harris and EPA chief Michael Regan are …
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EPA set to announce Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund awards for $20 billion ‘green bank’
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Putting ownership and wealth-building strategies on center stage
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