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China | April 17, 2023
Can China’s impact investing ecosystem expand beyond green energy and ESG?
ImpactAlpha, April 17 – China manufactures more batteries than the rest of the world combined, by far. The country’s spending of $546 billion …
Jiangxi, China | Photo credit: Humphery
China | July 7, 2021
Asia Green Fund’s Bo Bai: Cleantech investing opens the door to impact investing in China
ImpactAlpha, July 7 – Chinese investors are moving capital into cleantech and low carbon funds. Driving the activity: President Xi Jinping’s pledge last year …
Agrifood Tech | November 10, 2020
Bits x Bites secures $30 million to improve agrifood sustainability in China
ImpactAlpha, November 10 – Bits x Bites has reached a $30 million first close for a new fund that will invest in technologies …
China | January 23, 2020
China ban spurs circular economy for plastics
ImpactAlpha, Jan. 23 – If someone were to remake The Graduate today, the career advice famously imparted to Dustin Hoffman in the 1967 …
Asia | March 5, 2019
U.S.-China Green Fund kicks off next stage of investments in China’s low-carbon transformation
ImpactAlpha, March 5 – With a half-billion dollar fund and more than a dozen investments, the U.S.-China Green Fund has quietly executed the …
China | November 6, 2018
TPG’s Rise Fund leads $140 million round of China’s CFPA Microfinance
ImpactAlpha, November 6 – TPG’s $2 billion Rise Fund impact fund led the Series C funding round of China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation …
2030 Finance | May 22, 2018
Letter from Shenzhen: Can impact investors find a role in China’s impact initiatives?
Shenzhen, China, May 22 – China has something some other countries are missing: national policies for driving environmental and social impact. In renewable energy, …
2030 Finance | May 9, 2018
Shenma Finance expands electric-vehicle loans in rural China
ImpactAlpha, May 9 – Basic electric vehicles are popular in China’s rural areas, particularly for farmers transporting goods. Last July, the Shandong Automobile Manufacturers …
2030 Finance | May 7, 2018
Sponge Cities: China’s $300 billion investment plan for green stormwater infrastructure
SHENZEN, China, ImpactAlpha – When spring and summer rains hit the densely populated urban village of Gangxia near the center of Shenzhen, narrow streets become …
China | May 1, 2018
TPG puts $1 billion behind $1.9 billion Baidu fintech spinoff
ImpactAlpha, May 1 – Chinese internet giant Baidu is spinning off its financial services unit in “one of the biggest-ever private equity deals in …
Blockchain/AI/IoT | March 6, 2018
Impact investor group launches vegetarian-meat company for Chinese market
A quarter of the world’s meat is consumed in China, including half of all pork, and meat consumption and production are both rising. Dao …
China | January 19, 2018
First the sun, now the wind
China is already the world’s largest producer of solar energy. By 2022, it will also become the world’s offshore wind leader, according to …
China | January 4, 2018
SV99 points to high-growth, high-impact Chinese investment opportunities
Cross the world’s second-largest economy with global social and environmental goals and you may find high-growth, high-impact investment opportunities. That’s what the Social …
China | January 4, 2018
Financial technology trends, off-grid community ventures, China’s social-value 99, vulnerable…
Greetings, ImpactAlpha readers! #Featured: ImpactAlpha Voices Lessons from 1,000 U.S. fintech companies. More than half of American adults — about 138 million — have difficulty managing their …
2030 Finance | November 21, 2017
China’s climate leadership, $50M sustainable land fund, impact due diligence, waste-to-profits
Greetings, ImpactAlpha readers! #Featured: ImpactAlpha Original China has so far exceeded (low) expectations for cutting emissions — but can it save the planet? China left …
China | November 3, 2017
‘Less talk, more action’ to boost impact investing in China
The philosophy behind impact investing isn’t lost on China, but the tendency to over-hype the sector could be. “The Chinese culture traditionally encourages …
China | October 30, 2017
China is officially a leader in the long-term fight against climate change
The reality may not match the rhetoric, but the rhetoric is a relief. “[China has] taken a driving seat in international cooperation to respond …
Blockchain/AI/IoT | September 16, 2017
Made in China, by robots
Two years ago, China laid out its ambitious “Made in China 2025” plan to shift from low-value to high-value manufacturing, including electric cars, …
China | September 15, 2017
China’s fossil fuel-free car future
China, the world’s largest car market with over 25.5 million cars and light vehicles sold in 2016, has signaled an end to production …
China | September 7, 2017
Too much of a good thing in China’s solar boom?
The world’s biggest floating solar farm, built atop a former coal mine, generated press as well as electricity when it went online several …
China | August 4, 2017
Dark Shadows
The rumblings of a trade war with China sent us looking for scenarios for how things may play out by, say, 2030. A particularly …
Blockchain/AI/IoT | July 26, 2017
Will robots’ first language be Chinese?
The “Sputnik” moment for China came a year ago when a Google computer program, AlphaGo, beat the world’s top master of the ancient …
2030 Finance | June 30, 2017
China establishes green finance zones to kickstart war on pollution
China is launching five pilot projects with financial institutions in Guangdong, Guizhou, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Xinjiang. Each one will focus on new financial …
China | June 23, 2017
Is meat the next fossil fuel?
China’s nearly 1.4 billion people consume one-quarter of the world’s meat supply. By 2030, consumer spending in China’s lowest-tier cities alone is expected to …
Blockchain/AI/IoT | June 13, 2017
Sharing economy comes to agricultural drones in China
A Chinese startup, Nongtian Guanjia, raised $7 million to help farmers connect with agricultural drone operators for more precise applications of pesticides and …
2030 Finance | May 13, 2017
New $2.6 billion Chinese venture fund targets energy conservation and environmental protection
China has launched a $2.6 billion venture capital fund that will target energy conservation and environmental protection. China has been tightening environmental laws …
Agrifood Tech | May 9, 2017
As China’s food security goes, so goes the world’s
By population, China is triple the size of the United States. Food, which generally costs more in China than in the U.S., makes …
Asia | March 29, 2017
Taiwanese startup The News Lens raises new funds to take on Asia media establishment
Taiwanese startup The News Lens has raised new funds to take on the Asia media establishment. The digital publication targets younger, educated audiences …
2030 Finance | January 25, 2017
Global green bonds more than doubled in 2016, led by China
Climate Finance The world’s biggest carbon-emitter raised $36.2 billion for bonds to meet its ambitious carbon reduction targets. That pushed the global value …
2030 Finance | January 18, 2017
Thai photovoltaic plant will duck U.S. tariffs on Chinese solar panels
Climate Finance The Chinese-Canadian firm Canadian Solar has secured $210 million in loans to build a PV production plant in eastern Thailand. Most …
China | January 14, 2017
Solar is the future’s low-cost energy source
2030 The cost of solar generation, which has fallen more than 60 percent since 2009, is projected to drop another 40 to 60 …