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Making finance a catalyst for transformation with Yedau Ogoundele
For nearly twenty years, Yedau Ogoundele had been working behind the scenes in global finance – in Paris, London, on trading floors, in corporate and investment banking, and for Bloomberg. It was a ca...
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"Mobilising private capital is no longer an option"
Faced with ever-increasing financing needs, mobilising local private sources of capital has become one of the key prerequisites for development. However, these savings are rarely channelled into the p...
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Start-ups: raising funds successfully in emerging markets
Venture capital has become a strategic growth driver. In emerging markets – where investors are still a rare commodity – raising funds successfully is not just about securing capital. First you need t...
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“The figures should speak for themselves”, Neha Kumar and Brandon Roberts from littlefish
From preparing for a fundraising round to understanding investors' expectations, Brandon Roberts and Neha Kumar, co-founders of the South African start-up littlefish, share the key factors for success...
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Sahyadri Farms, trailblazes with agricultural business and finance model
Farmer-owned Sahyadri Farms is building a resilient, profitable, and climate-aligned horticulture model. This entails leadership and collaborative planning, structuring and board monitoring.
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AXA Climate: modelling climate risks, adapting crops
AXA Climate has used its modelling tools and agronomic expertise to identify the impacts of climate change on crops at Sahyadri Farms and propose ways of adapting.
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In India, vineyards faced with climate change
In the Indian state of Maharashtra, the Sahyadri Farms (a farmer collective owned company) – supported by Proparco – has managed to build a network of 50,000 smallholder farmers and become the country...
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Adapting to climate change: an economic and financial imperative
Faced with the worsening physical impacts of climate change, adaptation is gradually becoming an economic and financial priority. Long perceived as a renunciation of mitigation, it is now becoming ind...
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Financing adaptation: anticipating risks to create value
To be truly effective, the private sector’s contribution must be based on fairness and a long-term approach. This implies a pricing of risk that reflects the real costs of exposure without penalising...
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How emerging countries innovations can scale climate resilience for all
A new paradigm of global development has emerged – the climate resilience transition – requiring climate resilient solutions. While DFI and DAA are supporting these, they may not fully capture the mar...
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Sustainable finance in action: when financial players transform their business model
To bolster their action in favour of climate change mitigation and adaptation to its adverse effects, financial institutions are reorganising. They are rethinking their processes, products and conditi...
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E-mobility: using debt to scale up
Scaling up the electric mobility sector requires the use of debt financing. This is the message conveyed by three representatives of major investors in vehicle decarbonisation in Africa, India and Lat...
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For Banco Promerica, green construction is key to a low-carbon future
Banco Promerica Costa Rica is committed to channeling capital toward impactful projects, promoting environmental and social value, while maintaining financial performance. Financing construction proje...
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In Sub-Saharan Africa, the ARAF fund is strengthening the climate resilience of smallholder farmers
Financed by several partners and development finance institutions – including Proparco, via AFD Group’s FISEA+ facility –, the ARAF fund targets the issues of food security and climate change. It inve...
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How Green Climate Fund is using ARAF funding to tackle climate change
Read the interview with Kavita Sinha, director of the Private Sector Facility at the Green Climate Fund.
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Where climate risk meets opportunity: how Ecobank is financing Africa’s future
Most banks treat climate as a problem to manage. Ecobank treats it as intelligence to leverage. Across 35 African markets, the banking giant is embedding climate data into every credit decision, sover...
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Climate finance in Africa: profitable and deeply transformational
Equity Group is addressing the climate challenge in Africa by combining green loans, capacity building, and targeted partnerships. The Group is dedicating an increasing share of its portfolio to finan...
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How financial institutions can drive the transition
Climate change is shaking up economic fundamentals and rendering financial models inherited from the past obsolete. As systemic risks accumulate, banks and funds need to go beyond their supporting rol...
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Financial institutions’ climate role: from commitments to action
Financial institutions, including banking and funding institutions, have a pivotal role to play in driving low-emissions and climate-resilient development. They need to adopt practices that support cl...
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RE&UP, circular technology serving climate mitigation
In Gaziantep, in south-eastern Turkey, SANKO Group is revolutionising the field of textile recycling. Its subsidiary RE&UP – which has partnered with a French company for its production machinery – co...
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