SDGs

Oceans | Roodgally Senatus

Global Fund for Coral Reefs blends opportunity and urgency to finance ocean resilience (Q&A)

SDGs | Kusi Hornberger

Blending Billions: Lessons from more than three dozen big blended finance transactions

Catalytic Capital | Laurie Spengler

Three principles behind the SDG Loan Fund for mobilizing capital at scale

Impact Voices | Neil Gregory

How investors are moving from “alignment” to “contribution” to the UN Global Goals

Catalytic Capital | David Bank

ImpactAlpha Deal Spotlight: Blending global insurance assets for impact

Catalytic Capital | David Bank

Allianz’s SDG Loan Fund leverages a $25 million guarantee to catalyze $1.1 billion

Impact Voices | Ben Matranga

Investing in ‘meaningful connectivity’ to a better internet in Africa, Asia and Latin America

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Catalytic Capital | Roodgally Senatus

BII anchors SDG Outcomes Fund with $10 million for development impact bonds

Impact Management | Michael Peck

UN metrics measure enterprise impact on the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals

Gender Smart | Esha Chhabra

Bringing women to the forefront of sustainable development

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Impact Voices | Bhakti Mirchandani

Facing up to shortfalls – and trade-offs – in the Sustainable Development Goals

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Oceans | Roodgally Senatus

Ocean 14 Capital raises €100 million to advance the blue economy

Climate Finance | Roodgally Senatus

Circulate Capital secures $53 million to reduce plastic pollution

the Clinicas del Azucar in Guadalupe | Photo credit: IFC

Investing in Health | Dennis Price

Clinicas de Azucar to expand diabetes clinics with $7.3 million in financing from Blue like an Orange

Catalytic Capital | Dia Martin

Impact investors collaborate to amplify the impact of their catalytic capital

Impact Voices | Regina Rossmann

How NGOs are blending capital to amplify their impact

Conservation | Jessica Pothering

Pegasus Capital Advisors raises $170 million for Global Fund for Coral Reefs

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Emerging and Growth Markets | David Bank

BRAC International Microfinance taps capital markets for $40 million for households in poverty

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Emerging and Growth Markets | Jessica Pothering

Can off-grid solar keep focus on energy access for the poor as commercial capital arrives?

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Emerging and Growth Markets | Jessica Pothering

Sun King scores $260 million to ramp up off-grid solar access in Africa

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Gender Smart | Jessica Pothering

Kinara Capital secures $50 million from Nuveen and TripleJump for digital lending in India

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SDGs | Roodgally Senatus

WaterEquity secures $153 million for water and sanitation impact

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Impact Management | Roodgally Senatus

Tikehau Capital impact debt fund secures $110 million from Dutch pension fund

Impact Management | Arthur Wood

Memo to the Impact Task Force: Break down silos to rescue the Sustainable Development Goals

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Climate and Gender | Roodgally Senatus

Impact Investment Exchange lists $30 million Women’s Livelihood Bond on the Singapore Exchange

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SDGs | Roodgally Senatus

Summa Equity closes third SDG impact fund at $2.6 billion

Water | Jessica Pothering

How pre-construction financing is building a pipeline of water projects in Kenya

Catalytic Capital | Roodgally Senatus

Women’s Livelihood Bond from Impact Investment Exchange closes at $30 million

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aquaculture | Roodgally Senatus

Ocean 14 Capital secures €60 million for blue economy impact fund

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Dealflow | Roodgally Senatus

Citi issues $1 billion social finance bond for emerging markets

Catalytic Capital | Jessica Pothering

Blended finance struggles for traction in the ‘decade of action’

Emerging and Growth Markets | Jessica Pothering

AXA takes a minority stake in Blue Like an Orange sustainable investment firm

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SDGs | Roodgally Senatus

Blue Bear closes $150 million fund for AI-enabled climate infrastructure

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SDGs | Roodgally Senatus

Zola Electric raises $90 million to expand off-grid energy access

Freetown, Sierra Leone

Dealflow | Jessica Pothering

CrossBoundary Energy and Zoodlabs develop solar-powered internet in Sierra Leone

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SDGs | Jessica Pothering

Investors rally behind India’s early, active climate tech scene

Innovative Finance | Joan Larrea

Five critiques of blended finance – and five responses from Convergence

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Dealflow | Jessica Pothering

CrossBoundary backs PowerGen to develop mini-grids in Nigeria

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Impact Voices | Nick O'Donohoe

Growth of gender-smart investing in development finance signals opportunity for commercial investors as well

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SDGs | Jessica Pothering

Madagascar’s Sayna secures investment to offer digital skills-training in francophone Africa

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Originals | Jessica Pothering

Shift to electric rickshaws and motorcycles is drawing investors to emerging markets’ e-mobility opportunity

Impact Voices | Emma Colenbrander

How last-mile distributors put capital to work for impact

SDGs | Jessica Pothering

J.P. Morgan’s ‘development financial institution’ amps up transparency in emerging markets dealmaking

SDGs | Jessica Pothering

Off-Grid Market Development Fund offers results-based financing for solar access in Madagascar

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SDGs | Jessica Pothering

Fifteen startups with solutions for land restoration in Latin America