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Beyond recovery: toward innovative, inclusive private sector financing
Despite the extensive use of development finance institutions (DFIs) in recent years, the Covid-19 pandemic has shed a harsh light on the persistence of gender inequalities, particularly in terms of a...
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Stakeholders’ voice – using technology to collect feedback directly from the key people
The world has now lived with the Covid-19 pandemic for over two years. The evidence shows that it has hit the least-developed countries the hardest. At the same time, climate change is increasingly af...
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The pandemic as a driver of innovation for private sector companies in Africa
During the last two years, a large number of companies have developed innovative strategies to navigate through the Covid-19 crisis. What this meant: everything that could be organised remotely in doi...
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Europe’s huge opportunity: mobilising the private sector for development
“Team Europe” is a space that allows for strengthened cooperation across European development finance actors. For the European DFIs, strengthened cooperation with EU institutions will be key to enabli...
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European DFIs in a troubled world: strategic actors of the European financial architecture for development
In a rapidly changing world threatened by the risk of irreversible climate change, major crises and an increasingly polarised world order, Europe has to articulate its external actions in a more strat...
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Building a collaborative recovery
Collaboration among European DFIs has continued to grow during the pandemic and has helped these institutions achieve their investment objectives based on complementary expertise, networks and capacit...
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AEGEA
By supporting the investment program of Aegea Saneamento e Participações, Proparco is contributing to the development of drinking water production, distribution and treatment in four Brazilian municip...
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Incentivising corporate landscape restoration
In the face of the accelerating global climate-biodiversity crisis, and faced with the loss of carbon sinks and ecosystems critical to human survival, there has never been a more urgent need to restor...
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Zoonoses and biodiversity: do we need to rethink environmental health governance?
The number of zoonosis epidemics is on the rise, fuelled by industrial farming practices, deforestation and the loss of traditional habitats. There is an urgent need to rethink health policy from a mu...
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Restored rangelands enhancing prosperity in Southern Africa
In the drylands of Southern Africa, land degradation is increasing, reducing nature’s ability to regenerate pastures to sustain livestock and wildlife. Unaddressed, degraded rangelands can become “was...
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Total’s approach to tackling biodiversity challenges
Back in 2005, Total introduced an ambitious biodiversity protection programme. Today, the Group is committed to protecting the environment at both local level («biodiversity action plans» for new proj...
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Partnerships between civil society and the private sector to protect sensitive regions
The CEPF is a fund specialised in supporting partnerships between environmental protection associations and economic stakeholders. When civil society comprises a wide range of organisations - a divers...
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Recommendations for integrating biodiversity into the wind energy sector in emerging market countries
Renewable energy is essential to achieving sustainable development, and wind energy can provide competitively priced electricity, while helping to reduce climate change impacts. Yet its impacts on bio...
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The Nature Conservancy: using technology to protect tuna stocks
Climate change, pollution, and overfishing are putting enormous pressure on the Pacific. Against this background, the eight island nations that make up the Nauru Agreement (PNA) – which controls 70% o...
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Evolving in order to provide more effective solutions to environmental challenges
Veolia’s historic mission and the development of its businesses have made it a stakeholder who wishes to actively contribute to reducing anthropogenic environmental pollution. Like all industrial busi...
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AERIA 2012
Félix-Houphouët-Boigny Airport is managed under a concession by AERIA and needs to be developed and upgraded. By participating in financing the investment plan, Proparco is supporting the economic dev...
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Protecting biodiversity for The Long Run, a holistic approach?
Faced with the current biodiversity and climate crises, privately protected areas, which play a pivotal role in biodiversity conservation, can improve the resilience of the conservation sector. The pr...
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Diversifying funding for biodiversity conservation
Funding biodiversity conservation is no longer a government-subsidy and grant-giving game only. However, a financing shortfall of USD 598-824 billion per year remains. To fill this void, the private s...
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Nature Positive: turning biodiversity from a risk into an opportunity
Globally, the natural world on which people and economies depend is in crisis. Species are declining, biodiversity loss and novel diseases, such as Covid-19, all pose business risks, but the renewed i...
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