Global | January 20, 2025
Without even going to Davos, Trump is the talk of the town
It’s the best of times and the worst of times for the global elite flocking to Davos. The wealth of the billionaire class …
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Tracking the Climate Finance Ecosystem
The climate crisis is an all hands on deck problem, and all the hands need to be aware of what the others are doing. The following Climate Finance Trackers are designed to help climate funders and ‘ecosystem builders’ better collaborate by exploring: who is funding what, who to talk to for shared learnings, where are the gaps, and what type of capital could be most effective where.
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Climate Co-Investor Tracker
The Climate Co-Investor Tracker shows patterns of co-investments to US-based companies whose descriptions mention terms relating to climate mitigation or climate adaptation. Investors were included if they invested in at least two companies and linked if they co-invested in at least one company together. Colored clusters are groups of investors that co-invest with each other more than expected by chance.
Due to the nature of the climate crisis and the interdependence of solution components, climate investors need to consider not only de-risking their own investments but also de-risking the whole solution system at large. Herd investing could leave crucial solution components underfunded. Climate investors need to see the big picture, spot gaps, redundancies, and opportunities, and work together to secure our future.
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US Climate Finance Tracker
The Climate Finance Tracker - U.S. shows flows of private funding to US-based companies and non-profits whose descriptions mention terms realting to climate mitigation or climate adapation. The funding data span private investments (provided by Crunchbase) and philanthropic grants (provided by Candid).
In the next decade, trillions of dollars in investment will be made in climate solutions. But how can we ensure this capital is distributed effectively? What kind of capital is needed where, and when? To help inform these decisions, climate funders need to be looking at the bigger picture, getting ahead of emerging opportunities, and working together to bridge the gaps.
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Africa & Latin America Climate Finance Tracker
The Climate Finance Tracker - Africa / Latin America shows flows of private funding to companies and non-profits that are either based in - or work in - Africa or Latin America and whose descriptions mention terms relating to climate mitigation or climate adaptation. The funding data span from 2019 to 2022 and includes private investment data (from Crunchbase, GPCA, and Africa: The Big Deal), philanthropic grant data (from Candid and OECD), and Blended Finance data (from Convergence).
Climate change is disrupting the most foundational aspects of human life - food and agriculture, water and sanitation, public health, education and livelihoods, urban infrastructure and energy access, migration and social cohesion. While enterprises and investors are stepping up to meet the climate emergency, solutions for low-income communities and frontier markets remain capital-short. Those most impacted by climate change are getting the least amount of support. As interconnected as our world is, if we neglect these communities and economies, we all fail.
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Enterprises from small to large, and investors from philanthropic to commercial, are stepping up to meet the climate emergency.
Some strategies, like electric vehicles and utility-scale solar and wind, can tap well-established capital flows. Venture capital is embracing climate innovation.
But solutions for low-income communities and frontier markets remain capital-short. Climate adaptation and resilience – which most directly affect lives and communities – get short shrift.
Climate change is disrupting public health, food and agriculture, water and sanitation, urban infrastructure and energy access, education and livelihoods, migration and social cohesion. All investors are climate investors now.
Catalytic investors are making emerging solutions investable. Institutional financing is starting to take them to scale.
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Climate Finance | January 16, 2025
LA wildfires push California’s insurance market to the brink
Editor’s Note: This article was co-published with Climate Proof, a publication on climate adaptation tech and policy. Los Angeles is burning, as it has been …
Photo: Colossal Biosciences
Impact Tech | January 15, 2025
Wild and woolly: Colossal Biosciences raises $200 million to revive the mammoth and other lost species
In just a few years, the first woolly mammoths to live in more than 4,000 years may be taking their first tentative steps across …
LP / GP | January 13, 2025
As private equity fundraising goes south, whither impact investing in 2025?
Institutional investors and other limited partners are getting impatient to get their money back from private equity funds. And as they get crankier …
Climate Finance | January 7, 2025
Climate tech investors retool for a changed landscape
The climate tech investment will shapeshift in the year ahead. Out: EVs and big battery deals. In: geothermal, nuclear and other clean, reliable …
Corporate Impact | January 6, 2025
Public companies respond to the backlash against climate and diversity initiatives with surrender and defiance
Update (Jan. 14). Under growing pressure from Republican politicians in the US, BlackRock quit the Net Zero Asset Managers Alliance, while Dutch pension fund Pensioenfonds Detailhandel exited …
Credit: Marut Drones
Smallholder Agriculture | January 6, 2025
Investors bet on drones to lift agricultural productivity and women’s livelihoods in India
A tricky tech play for the agriculture sector is finding a place among India’s millions of small-scale farms to strengthen livelihoods and generate …
Climate Finance | December 17, 2024
Mind the Gaps: Plugging the holes in financing climate adaptation
Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on Climate Proof, a newsletter on climate adaptation finance, tech, and policy. Climate adaptation has a capital …
Looking Ahead to 2025 | December 17, 2024
Finding impact alpha in climate: Betting on the low-carbon transition, against the odds
If not a miracle, it’s going to take something close to reach what scientists say is a crucial milestone for climate action by …
Newlab's New Climate Futures event at Brooklyn Navy Yard
Climate and Clean Tech | December 11, 2024
The New York model for how cities can build robust climate tech innovation ecosystems
New York was a climate innovation desert when SecondMuse first started working with the New York City Economic Development Corp. in 2017. Real …
Signals | December 9, 2024
Commercial lenders wake up to Africa’s fastest-growing solar sector
The good news: Africa is attracting a record amount of capital for clean energy development. The bad: Funding for fossil fuel projects is …
Climate Finance | December 1, 2024
Adaptation and resilience bonds come to the fore as prospects for global climate action dim
Climate adaptation did not get much love at COP29 last week. The UN’s Adaptation Fund received just $133 million in new funding pledges …
Galvanize Climate Solutions' Tom Steyer.
Low-carbon transition | December 1, 2024
Tom Steyer’s Galvanize makes third real estate grey-to-green deal
Taking control of high-emitting assets in order to reduce their carbon footprint has long been seen as an important investment strategy, but few …
COP29 final negotiations stretched into Sunday (photo: UNclimatechange)
Climate Finance | November 24, 2024
Past deadline, COP29 climate talks salvage a meager agreement on climate financing
In the end, COP29 lived up to its low expectations. “Abysmally poor.” “A betrayal.” “A complete failure in terms of delivering the ambition …
Climate Finance | November 18, 2024
When it comes to moving capital to climate-vulnerable nations, impact investors have the models
How much funding do wealthy countries owe to climate-vulnerable nations? And how does it get to them? The first week of COP29 in …
Private Equity | November 13, 2024
For private equity investors, energy transition trends trump election results
Wait and see. That was the tone of private equity managers and investors at this week’s SuperReturn private capital conference in midtown Manhattan …
Photo: UNclimatechange
Climate Finance | November 11, 2024
As Trump retakes the reins, global climate leadership at COP29 shifts to China, Brazil – and Azerbaijan
The global climate summit known as COP22 had already convened in Marrakech, Morocco, for what was supposed to be an energetic followup to …
Plugged In | November 7, 2024
Plugged In: The future of sustainable luxury is being sewn by BIPOC designers (video)
ImpactAlpha’s “Plugged In” series explored the intersection of sustainable fashion and luxury, highlighting the role of BIPOC designers in driving innovation and ethical …
The Liist | November 5, 2024
The Liist, November 2024: Blending finance for climate adaptation, biodiversity and water solutions
Capital doesn’t easily flow to where it’s most needed, as the failed negotiations at last week’s COP16 biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia put …
Christiana Figueres
Climate Finance | November 3, 2024
Breaking down barriers to addressing the climate crisis
How do you get 195 countries to agree on a plan for as divisive a topic as climate change? “It’s pretty simple. You …
Impact Investing | October 31, 2024
SOCAP’s ‘best dressed’ choose substance and style
At this year’s SOCAP gathering in San Francisco, attendees were asked to bring their authentic selves to the annual impact investing conference. That …
Catalytic Capital | October 31, 2024
Private investors drive blended climate finance to record $18.3 billion
A blended finance vehicle from the Asian Development Bank is paying to retire coal plants in Indonesia and the Philippines years ahead of …
Photo credit: Nature Conservancy
Climate Finance | October 30, 2024
Unlocking billion-dollar opportunities in Latin America’s nature-based economy
Nature-based solutions are gaining recognition as a crucial avenue to address the pressing challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss, while actively involving …
Climate Finance | October 29, 2024
Global wealthy family offices are warming up to climate investment
Next-generation heirs are increasingly vocal about wanting to align their legacy fortunes with their values, through investments by their family offices in funds, …
Institutional Impact | October 29, 2024
Failure of a California almond grower shows the unsustainability of some sustainable agriculture investments
Trinitas Partners had plans to transform the world with almonds. The world had other ideas. When we last saw the Redwood City, Calif., …
Signals | October 21, 2024
Lower green energy prices hand Global South ‘the cheapest route to growth in history’
It’s often said that with climate change, the Global South is being asked to solve a problem it didn’t create. A new report …
Clean Energy | October 18, 2024
Improving livelihoods with ‘productive use appliances’ and other off-grid innovations
More than half a billion people. A decade and a half into the off-grid solar revolution, the impact is increasingly visible. Nearly one …
Natalia Arjomand of SecondMuse joins Sherrell Dorsey on Plugged In
Plugged In | October 10, 2024
Plugged In: Designing financial products for climate solutions with SecondMuse’s Natalia Arjomand (video)
In this episode of Impact Alpha’s PluggedIn, Sherrell Dorsey hosted Natalia Arjomand, Senior Director at SecondMuse and director of the firm’s Future Economy …
Credit: Blue Energy.
Clean Energy | October 9, 2024
Blue Energy raises $45 million for modular – and underwater – nuclear power plants
With data centers gobbling up energy, nuclear power is getting a fresh look as a clean, flexible and reliable source of energy. The …
Climate Finance | October 9, 2024
Climate negotiators head to Baku to craft a financial architecture for the net-zero future
In just a month, global envoys will gather for COP29, the annual climate gathering meant to advance the goals of the 2015 Paris …
Photo by JIBU.
Water | October 7, 2024
With each bottle sold, UK retailers aim to backstop water entrepreneurs in emerging markets (Q&A)
That bottle of water you just bought in London may connect you to an investment in a startup providing drinking water in Uganda, …
Ethiopian EV startup Dodai
Africa | September 27, 2024
EV policy incentives give Africa’s e-mobility startups an edge in a competitive market
Ethiopia made headlines in February by becoming the first country in the world to ban the importation of fuel-powered cars. Later that spring, …
Climate Finance | September 27, 2024
Blending finance for India’s green transition
India’s state-run development financial institution, the Small Industries Development Bank of India, has for more than two years been working to support climate …
Impact Investing | September 25, 2024
Scaling climate adaptation
When Jay Koh two years ago raised $186 million for a venture fund dedicated to climate adaptation and resilience, it was one of …
Acumen's Amrita Bhandari
Climate Week NYC | September 25, 2024
Carbon markets fall short as a climate solution, but go far in financing sustainable development
The voluntary market for carbon credits has been haunted by low quality projects and greenwashing. Prices for the credits, which enable companies to …
Climate and Gender | September 24, 2024
Female founders power climate entrepreneurship in Latin America
Biodegradable plastics made from invasive sargassum. Seaweed-based biofibers to decarbonize global fashion. Water-insulated panels and nature-based construction materials. Women-led companies from Mexico to …
Third Sphere's Shaun Abrahamson
Climate Week NYC | September 24, 2024
Needed: Climate tech exits to keep the ‘circular capital economy’ spinning
All over New York City, climate tech startups are pitching solutions and fund managers are courting LPs. But for all the excitement around …
ImpactAlpha’s David Bank speaks with Mosun Layode of African Philanthropy Forum and Cilia Holmes Indahl of EQT Foundation at the MIT Solve Challenge Finals at Climate Week NYC | Photo: Cesar Chavez
Impact Investing | September 23, 2024
Talk of the town: Live updates from Climate Week NYC
ImpactAlpha is on the ground at Climate Week NYC. Here’s what’s happening and what caught our eye.
Photo credit: Aerones, a Blume Equity portfolio company
Climate and Gender | September 23, 2024
These six women-led funds are capitalizing the commercialization of climate tech
There was no old boys network to break into in the growth stage of climate tech investing when the women at Blume Equity …
Catalytic Capital | September 20, 2024
The Call: How commercial investors are streamlining blended fund structures (video)
Blended finance is rebounding, but this time with a twist. Commercial investors are stepping up to drive some of the biggest blended-finance funds …
ImpactAlpha's Sherrell Dorsey and Forward Together’s Mandela Barnes
Plugged In | September 19, 2024
In Wisconsin, Forward Together’s Mandela Barnes makes “sustainable attainable” (video)
Mandela Barnes wants to make “sustainable attainable.” As the president of Forward Together Wisconsin, or FTW, a nonpartisan nonprofit, Barnes helps residents and …
Climate Finance | September 19, 2024
Cheat Sheet: Finding the alpha at Climate Week NYC
Once a side event to the annual UN General Assembly meeting in New York, Climate Week NYC, kicking off on Sunday, has now …
Elemental's Dawn Lippert
Climate Week NYC | September 18, 2024
With a fresh $100 million and rebrand, Elemental Impact aims to accelerate climate tech deployments
Elemental Impact — the Honolulu-based nonprofit formerly known as Elemental Excelerator — has received a $100 million slug of funds from the Coalition …
Climate Fund Managers last year invested in one of the largest debt-for-climate conversions in history to protect the Galapagos Islands
Climate Finance | September 17, 2024
Blending billions: Lessons in catalyzing capital at scale for climate and development
As host of last year’s COP28 climate gathering, the United Arab Emirates made a splash with its $30 billion Altérra climate fund. Tucked …
Remake's 'Walk your Values' show at New York Fashion Week
Sustainable Fashion | September 12, 2024
Ethical and inclusive are in style at New York Fashion Week
Celebrities including Rihanna and Madonna descended on New York City for Fashion Week, where venues from the Guggenheim Museum to basketball courts in …
Winnie Harlow, founder of Cay Skin, a True Beauty Ventures portfolio company | Photo credit: Cay Skin / Instragram
Sustainable Fashion | September 5, 2024
To disrupt the $3 trillion fashion industry, VCs back tech for sustainability and authenticity
Innovation loves inefficiency. Mismanagement of resources, workers and customers in the $3 trillion fashion industry has opened multiple lanes for creative founders with …
Credit: SistemaBio
The Liist | September 3, 2024
The Liist, September 2024: There are many ways to put a gender lens on climate investing
Incorporating both climate and gender angles in an investment thesis is table stakes for fund managers seeking to attract investors, one general partner …
Institutional Impact | August 27, 2024
Institutional investors grapple with ‘slow-onset’ climate risks – and with how to value resilience
Hurricanes, floods, wildfires are the climate shocks that make headlines with harrowing stories of human tragedy. Slower moving impacts of climate change – …
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris speaks during the Democratic National Convention Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
Policy Corner | August 20, 2024
Beyond Chicago, Harris seeks to ride a revival in wages, entrepreneurship and ownership
On her way to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Vice President Kamala Harris stopped in Moon Township, Pa. to talk, among other …
Clean Energy | August 19, 2024
India’s residential rooftops sprout solar panels with generous government subsidies
Coal-dependent India is advancing an ambitious plan to boost adoption of rooftop solar to power homes. A generous new subsidy program, coupled with …
Deploy! | August 16, 2024
Green bank and community lending plans shift into high gear with release of $27 billion in federal climate grants
As the EPA releases $27 billion in grants to jumpstart America’s green transition, it’s creating hurdles and challenges for lender and project developers.
Impact Investing | August 15, 2024
Retail investors have billions for impact — and too few places to put them
Ordinary investors have a green mind, and money to spend. They could be the next frontier of impact investments seeking to address climate change and social issues.
Photo by unspun.
Inclusive Economy | August 9, 2024
Black VCs carve a niche at the intersection of fashion and sustainability
Before the big names moved in, Baltimore-based RareBreed Ventures provided seed funding to Oakland, Calif.-based unspun to develop its 3D textile-weaving technology. Three …
A Dutch bond will help strengthen the country's flood defenses
Impact Investing | August 5, 2024
Climate adaptation bonds can pay off for investors – in reduced risks from extreme weather
Bonds that protect their issuers from climate shocks are making headlines. This November, California residents will vote on a first-of-its kind climate bond …
Photo collage by Jobs for the Future.
Good Jobs | July 25, 2024
Securing quality green jobs for the future, while we can
Voters are getting a lot of attention in this year’s overheated political climate. But it is the power of workers that will ultimately …
Credit: WIC Capital
Gender Smart | July 22, 2024
Aruwa and WIC Capital re-up investments in ventures supporting Africa’s female farmers
Nigeria-based Aruwa Capital Management is supporting the livelihoods and financial inclusion of female hibiscus farmers with a follow-on investment in agricultural processor AgroEknor. …
Climate Finance | July 17, 2024
How fixing the tax blind spot in ESG ratings could help finance a just transition
For more than a decade, environmental, social and governance rating agencies have ranked companies on how they are addressing climate change, treating their …
Climate and Clean Tech | July 15, 2024
India’s climate investors look beyond EVs and energy for an investment edge
Investors are finding opportunities in a broader range of climate companies in India, going beyond the next e-scooter maker and energy provider. They …
Plugged In | July 11, 2024
Moving toward greater sustainability in the beauty industry: The role of plant-based hair extensions and Black beauty brands
The beauty industry, long criticized for its environmental impact, is undergoing a significant transformation toward greater sustainability. One notable development in this shift …
Impact Investing | July 3, 2024
Dueling priorities as green infrastructure projects meet prevailing wage requirements
The Inflation Reduction Act is already producing results for America’s once-in-a-generation shift to green technologies. Now, a thorny legal hurdle is complicating the …
Climate Finance | July 3, 2024
Spain’s Seaya inks €300 million for Andromeda climate tech fund
Woman-led Seaya in Spain manages three investment funds. For its Andromeda climate tech fund, it attracted €300 million from Spanish energy company Iberdrola, …
Photo credit: NESsT
Conservation | June 26, 2024
Building the Amazon’s bioeconomy by investing locally, at scale
Indigenous communities steward 80% of the world’s biodiversity—a precious resource in the face of escalating climate change. But both Indigenous communities and nature …
Policy Corner | June 25, 2024
How Europe’s import carbon tax can boost prosperity, not hurt it
Starting in 2026, the European Union is expected to implement a definitive Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, an import tax of sorts to level …
chart: RMI
Clean Energy | June 21, 2024
Rise of the ‘electrostate’
Move over, Petrostates. Electricity is the new “king of energy,” declares RMI, and China the first “electrostate.” Much of the world has long …
Photo: Dimensional Energy
Deploy! | June 18, 2024
How D-SAFES can help climate tech startups get projects off the ground
It’s one of the biggest challenges for climate tech: shifting from promising technology to commercial deployment. The skills required for the former are …
Gender Smart | June 11, 2024
In Latin America, investors see economic opportunities through a gender lens
The abandoned Don Pedro de Mendoza Power Plant in Buenos Aires’ La Boca neighborhood has been revived as a cultural hub and “arts …
Photo: Enerchem International
Climate Finance | May 30, 2024
Flexible financing to bridge a ‘missing middle’ for commercial climate solutions
There’s more than one chasm to cross when taking climate solutions to scale. Some investors are tackling the challenge of first-of-a-kind, or FOAK, …
Green Infrastructure | May 17, 2024
Institutional investors seek bigger stakes in climate assets in private markets
The California Public Employees Retirement System, or CalPERS, this week announced it would allocate more than $25 billion to green private markets assets …
Oceans | May 14, 2024
Global Fund for Coral Reefs blends opportunity and urgency to finance ocean resilience (Q&A)
Reefs are investable. As the value of the world’s disappearing coral reefs becomes abundantly clear, so too does the value of techniques and …
Climate Finance | May 13, 2024
Global banks back $706 billion in fossil fuels amid broader retreat on climate pledges
“Energy pragmatism” has become a mantra in a time of high oil prices and wars in Ukraine and Gaza. Emboldened fossil fuel producers …
Climate Finance | May 7, 2024
UN kicks off $100 million fund to protect displaced communities from climate shocks
There are more than 110 million displaced people worldwide – an all time high, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. More …
Impact Investing | May 2, 2024
How Big Tech can restore forests – and credibility in voluntary carbon markets
In the state of Michoacan in western Mexico, indigenous communities have secured Forest Stewardship Council certification for their sustainably managed biodiverse temperate forests. …
Deploy! | May 2, 2024
10,000 Communities: With partners, Milken Institute is building a market to drive investment in community infrastructure
The recent announcement of 60 winners under the $7 billion Solar for All program capped the Environmental Protection Agency’s rollout of the Greenhouse …
Former US climate envoy John Kerry has pushed for acceptance of carbon credits to finance low-income countries' energy transitions
Low-carbon transition | April 22, 2024
Science Based Targets Initiative meets realpolitik on the path to Net Zero
An apparent reversal by one of the main arbiters of corporate climate action plans has roiled climate activists and advocates and highlighted tensions …
Climate Finance | April 18, 2024
A ‘dual debt-climate challenge’ for the world’s poorest nations
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 …
Climate Finance | April 18, 2024
Spring Meetings yield green shoots of development finance reform at the World Bank
It’s been less than a year since Ajay Banga took over as president of the World Bank; he immediately faced intense pressure to …
Credit: SunCulture
Smallholder Agriculture | April 15, 2024
For these tech startups and investors, the next big thing is climate adaptation for smallholder farmers
In India, Mati Carbon is providing smallholder farmers with crop inputs that fertilize plants and sequester carbon. In Kenya, SunCulture is helping farmers …
Climate Finance | April 11, 2024
Insurance companies are fueling climate risks that threaten their own business
Climate change is driving more frequent and intense storms, droughts and floods – causing insurers to pull out of entire areas. Yet that …
Deploy! | April 4, 2024
Investors ready products to amplify US ‘green bank’ funding
The Biden administration’s “national green bank” program will come into focus today as vice president Kamala Harris and EPA chief Michael Regan are …
Low-carbon transition | March 29, 2024
Deal spotlight: Trickle of financing to phase out coal
Predictions of peak coal have come and gone as global efforts to phase out the dirty fossil fuel founder in regions reliant on …
Deploy! | March 28, 2024
EPA’s new partners plot a $27 billion path to a US green bank
The announcement of the winners of “green bank” funding under the Inflation Reduction Act is so close at hand that the Environmental Protection …
Climate Finance | March 28, 2024
How a $75 million ‘basket bond’ is catalyzing climate lending to small businesses in emerging markets
Local and community lenders in the US have been preparing for a windfall of financing from the federal government to support communities—particularly underinvested …
Ownership Economy | March 26, 2024
Wealth-building and community ownership in the next stage of The Great Deployment
Later this year, solar panels will be installed on the roof of the Brooklyn Army Terminal. Like thousands of emerging green projects across the …
Credit: Koko Fuel
Climate Finance | March 21, 2024
Leveraging the carbon markets for clean cooking, climate justice and social impact
Nairobi’s slums are dotted with little aqua blue signs alerting residents to top-up points for cooking fuel. Many households don’t have electric stoves …
Corporate Impact | March 20, 2024
This proxy season, shareholders will have their say on AI, biodiversity and corporate political activity
Ethical guidelines for artificial intelligence and biodiversity protections for deep sea mining are among the newcomers among the environmental and social issues on …
Deploy! | March 19, 2024
Bringing standards and certainty to financing for community infrastructure and the green transition
Organizations across the US are anticipating the announcement – expected any day – of who will get to manage parts of the Greenhouse …
Climate Finance | March 14, 2024
Happy Returns: Elaborate spoof takes aim at Vanguard’s retreat from climate commitments
Climate change can be stressful, including for investors profiting from fossil fuels in the face of record-breaking temperatures around the world. Climate activists …
Photo credit: Oorja Development Solutions
Clean Energy | March 13, 2024
The path to universal energy access is local, inclusive and women-led
In Zimbabwe, Agriput Solar leverages a network of local women to sell solar home products in rural communities. Women-led Grean World in Ethiopia …
Policy Corner | March 7, 2024
New SEC rules may be just enough to push climate action from disclosure to accounting
ImpactAlpha, Mar. 7 – First Europe. Then California. And now, the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC on Wednesday enacted long-awaited rules requiring …
Photo by African Development Bank.
Climate Finance | March 7, 2024
Gates Foundation seeds Africa Water Facility with $6 million grant for urban sanitation
ImpactAlpha, March 7 — Africa Water Facility, launched by the African Ministers Council on Water and managed by the African Development Bank, aims …
Inclusive Economy | March 4, 2024
Overheard at Sankalp: Public equity for African small businesses, accelerating circular enterprises, financing women-led ventures
ImpactAlpha, March 4 – The theme of the Sankalp Africa Summit in Nairobi was “igniting Africa’s potential for a just transition.” As always, financing …
Photo by UN Biodiversity.
Climate Finance | February 29, 2024
Can the UK’s market for trading nature credits deliver ‘biodiversity net gain’?
The global economy is built on natural capital. Without an abundance of water, soil, and biological diversity, businesses and societies can’t function, much …
Impact Investing | February 21, 2024
Impact investing at a crossroads
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 21 – “First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.” Mahatma Gandhi never said …
Paul Wellman, Santa Barbara Independent
Climate Finance | February 8, 2024
California’s climate-risk pioneer Dave Jones on our march ‘toward an uninsurable future’ (Q&A)
Dave Jones was California’s state insurance commissioner eight years ago when the then-novel idea of fossil fuel “stranded assets” caught his attention. The …
Climate and Clean Tech | January 31, 2024
Is the EV glass half-full or half-empty?
ImpactAlpha, Jan. 31 – “Nobody said it was easy,” as Coldplay reminds us. “No one ever said it would be so hard.” That’s how …
Clean Energy | January 29, 2024
Pumpjacks and natural gas rigs start to make way for photovoltaics and windmills
ImpactAlpha, Jan. 29 – Oil and gas fields are good places to produce energy – from wind turbines and solar panels. The often-lengthy permitting …
Michael Pugh.
Community Finance | January 24, 2024
LISC’s Michael Pugh on navigating legal challenges to community development finance (Q&A)
ImpactAlpha, January 24 — After 100 days at the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Michael Pugh is getting down to business. At the top …
Clean Energy | January 23, 2024
Energy spinoff GE Vernova may have a bigger carbon footprint than GE claims
This article originally appeared on Climate & Capital Media. At a seminal moment in the historic breakup of U.S. corporate giant General Electric, …
Impact Investing | January 23, 2024
The pivotal role of financial inclusion in climate adaptation and resilience
On the opening day of the COP28, the loss and damage fund to help vulnerable countries cope with the impact of climate change …
Signals | January 18, 2024
World Economic Forum 2024: If every billionaire is a policy failure, what’s a trillionaire?
ImpactAlpha, January 18 — The world is woefully behind on achieving climate and sustainable development goals by 2030. But one area where we’re …
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Primer.ai
Primer delivers mission-ready AI to those who protect our security and democracy.
Sideporch
An advisory firm helping good people do hard things that make a difference.
Vibrant Data Labs
Combining data science and network theory into visual interfaces to power change for complex social challenges.
Convergence
Convergence is the global network for blended finance. We generate blended finance data, intelligence, and deal flow to increase private sector investment in developing countries.
RTI
RTI International is a global research institute and leading international development organization that co-creates smart, shared solutions for a more prosperous, equitable, and resilient world.
GPCA
The Global Private Capital Association is a non-profit, independent membership organization representing private capital investors who manage more than USD2t in assets across Asia, Latin America, Africa, Central & Eastern Europe and the Middle East.