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  • Barbados signs 'blue' sustainability-linked loan in debt-for-nature swap

    02 December 2024

    Barbados has signed a sustainability-linked loan (SLL) as part of a $300 million debt-for-nature swap which will generate interest cost savings used to finance water-related climate resilience projects in the Caribbean country.

  • COP29: €3bn public-private fundraise planned for emerging market green bond fund

    15 November 2024

    The EU-led Global Green Bond Initiative (GGBI) is preparing to raise €3 billion ($3.2 billion) for a fund which will serve as an "anchor investor" in emerging market (EM) green bonds, the European Investment Bank (EIB) told a side event at the UN COP29 climate summit.

  • COP29: MDBs update 'common framework' and pledge $120bn to climate financing

    12 November 2024
  • 'Misperception of risk' preventing impact's boom

    15 October 2024

    A 'misperception of risk' between impact investors and capital allocators is limiting the growth of the impact investment asset class, the European Investment Bank has claimed.

  • Helios raises $200m for African green energy businesses at first close

    31 July 2024
  • Santander provides 'largest' energy mobility sector green loan at €225m

    04 July 2024
  • EIB: We must be 'pragmatic, not dogmatic' on transition finance

    28 May 2024

    A senior official at the European Investment Bank (EIB) said that sustainable finance cannot be "dogmatic" when it comes to choosing where to finance investments with the greatest impact for the transition.

  • Taxonomy users told to get creative to maximise its transition planning potential

    24 April 2024

    The EU taxonomy of sustainable activities can help formulate climate transition plans in ways it is currently not being widely used, according to members of a European Commission-mandated expert group.

  • EU Platform snubs SLBs in its climate investment stocktake

    05 April 2024

    Sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) are set to be omitted from a stocktake of sustainable capital flows in the EU, highlighting doubts about the materiality and ambition of the targets used by the instruments.

  • Impact investor consortium raise €215m for German electrolyser manufacturer

    05 March 2024