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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“Our goal: to create a global network of circular textile recycling hubs”
RE&UP’s General Manager, Andreas Dorner, discusses the technical challenges encountered, the expansion strategy of Sanko Group’s subsidiary, and the key role of the partnership with Proparco.
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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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Development finance institutions: new directions for the future
DFIs have grown in scale and influence, blending public and private finance to drive development impact. They support ESG integration and foster innovation through blended tools, but face limits in ri...
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Sustainable investment in emerging markets and developing economies: mobilising institutional capital
Sustainable investment is crucial for aligning financial returns with positive social and environmental impacts, especially in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). Despite their strong f...
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Private sector finance for development - pitfalls and opportunities
Ambitious countries are putting in place platforms for attracting finance and developing projects. Aided by blended finance, the results are encouraging: losses on long-term investments in publicly-su...
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Blended finance should be seen as a success
The FFD4 conference in Seville should avoid both unrealistic optimism and unwarranted negativity about blended finance. It is not a magic wand, it is a tool that enables DFIs to make more high impact...
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Assessment and outlook for DFI initiatives: towards greater efficiency ?
Over the past decade, health, climate and geopolitical challenges have increased exponentially. In response, Europe’s development finance institutions (DFIs) have stepped up their cooperation and anch...
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How IFU continues to invest in Ukraine despite war and high risk
The Danish Investment Fund for Developing Countries (IFU) is working tirelessly alongside the Ukrainian government and society to support the country’s businesses and people. It follows a rigorous fun...
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Developing and investing in frontier markets to achieve the SDGs
How FMO is working (providing technical assistance) and investing in frontier markets to develop opportunities into financeable projects.
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DFIs’ key role in climate-change resilience
The climate challenge is daunting but technological progress and cost reductions are opening new investment opportunities all the time. We can look forward to a golden decade of climate investing.
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Journey without Maps
Radical uncertainty in geopolitics and geoeconomics is set to increase, along with risks of crises – and the global community’s mitigating capacity is diminished. In a world without a global balance o...
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